Category Archives: Deeper Roots on KOWS

Springtime in Alaska

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

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

Naughty Blues

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

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

Early Female Pop Vocals

Here’s to the pioneering pop mavens. Don’t think we won’t draw a little bit outside the lines as well in this show, bringing in flappers, jazz, and novelty sounds. The groups and solo acts are thoroughly represented with the likes of Marion Harris, Ruth Etting, Billie Holiday, Kate Smith, and The Andrews Sisters. We’ll go a little bit further and bring you songs to uplift in hard times, ring with a bit of jingoism in war time, and celebrate the good times in every way possible. West County radio will get a good dose of the best of the early and mid-century popular music…all from the ladies.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Boswell Sisters Heebie Jeebies, #1 The Boswell Sisters Collection Amazon
2Marion Harris There'll Be Some Changes Made Echoes From The 1920's Disc 1 Amazon
3Helen Kane, Leonard Joy I Wanna Be Loved By You Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's Amazon
4Lee Morse If You Want the Rainbow The First Torch Singers, the Twenties Amazon
5Lee Morse If I Can't Have You The First Torch Singers, the Twenties Amazon
6Annette Hanshaw I Want To Be Bad Annette Hanshaw, Volume 6, 1929 (1999) Amazon
7Annette Hanshaw I Get The Blues When It Rains The Girl Next Door Amazon
8Ethel Shutta With George Olsen & His Music I'm On A Diet Of Love The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2 Amazon
9Ruth Etting My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now Love Me or Leave Me CD1 Amazon
10Ruth Etting Ten Cents a Dance The Boop Boop a Doop Girls Amazon
11Vaughn De Leath Ukulele Lady With My Little Ukulele In My Hand (Disc 4 Of 4) Amazon
12Vaughn De Leath Banana Oil The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2 Amazon
13Marion Harris Spring Is Here Again The Big Broadcast vol. 6 Amazon
14Boswell Sisters Put That Sun Back In the Sky Boswell Sisters Amazon
15The Boswell Sisters Shuffle Off To Buffalo The Boswell Sisters Volume 2 Amazon
16Kate Smith Twenty Million People Emergence Of A Legend Amazon
17Kate Smith Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen Emergence Of A Legend Amazon
18Josephine Baker Confessing 1926-1932 Amazon
19Billie Holiday My Last Affair Billie Holiday: The Legacy Box 1933-1958 Disc 2 Amazon
20Billie Holiday I Wished On The Moon Billie Holiday: The Lady Sings CD 1- This Year's Kisses Amazon
21Billie Holiday What A Little Moonlight Can Do Billie Holiday: The Lady Sings CD 1- This Year's Kisses Amazon
22Ella Fitzgerald Hallelujah! Cryin' Mood Amazon
23Chick Webb & His Orchestra A-Tisket, A-Tasket Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 2] Amazon
24Helen Forrest Two Blind Loves Harold Arlen Writes the Songs Amazon
25The Andrews Sisters Rhumboogie Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 2] Amazon
26The Andrews Sisters East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4] Amazon
27Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters I'll Si-Si Ya In Bahia [Single Version] Their Complete Recordings Together [Disc 2] Amazon
28Dinning Sisters Beg Your Pardon Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 1] Amazon
29Dinning Sisters Oh Monah Almost Sweet And Gentle [Disc 1] Amazon
30The McGuire Sisters Sugartime The McGuire Sisters Greatest Hits Amazon
31Helen Kane Button Up Your Overcoat The Boop Boop a Doop Girls Amazon

Songs About Morning

Morning is one of those times between. Break of day elicits many emotions as it’s always a new start. Those occurrences that affect the heart have always been prime fodder for words and music so we’ve reached into the song bin from the past century for a theme for this morning: morning. Tune in for some classics and some not-so-knowns. We’ve got Baez and Dylan, Dearie and Day, Bromberg and Kottke, McDowell and Leadbelly, all with a tune to spin about morning. And we’ll also take you into a pop-themed set featuring Frankie’s classic “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning”. Tune in.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Big Joe Turner Morning, Noon And Night Big Joe Turner: The Definitive Blues Collection [[Disc 2]] Amazon
2Billie Holiday Good Morning Heartache Ken Burns Jazz Amazon
3Blossom Dearie A Fine Spring Morning Four Classic Albums Plus (Blossom Dearie / Plays For Dancing / Give Him The Ooh-La-La / Once Upon A Summertime) (Digitally Remastered) Amazon
4Louis Jordan Early In The Morning Jivin' With Jordan Amazon
5Dean Martin & Helen O'Connell How D'ya Like Your Eggs In the Morning? Make Love With Amazon
6Doris Day I Got The Sun In The Morning Complete Doris Day With Les Brown [Disc 2] Amazon
7Gillian Welch One Morning Hell Among the Yearlings Amazon
8Gram Parsons We'll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning G.P. / Grievous Angel Amazon
9Bob Dylan Meet Me in the Morning Blood on the Tracks Amazon
10Jesse Colin Young Morning Sun Jesse Colin Young Classics Volume 1 Amazon
11Ian & Sylvia Early Morning Rain Greatest Hits Amazon
12Irma Thomas Early In The Morning Simply Grand Amazon
13Joan Baez One Too Many Mornings Baez Sings Dylan Amazon
14Joni Mitchell Chelsea Morning Hits Amazon
15David Bromberg I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning The Player: A Retrospective Amazon
16The South Street Trio Cold Morning Shout Before The Blues: Early American Black Music Scene (Vol. 2) Amazon
17Lead Belly Good Morning Blues Roots of the Blues, Vol. 2 Amazon
18K.C. Douglas Woke Up This Morning Mercury Blues Amazon
19Julius Daniels Can't Put A Bridle On That Mule This Morning When The Sun Goes Down: Walk Right In – The Secret Story Of Rock & Roll Amazon
20Mississippi Fred McDowell Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Jesus The First Recordings Amazon
21Rev. Anderson Johnson Death in the Morning Goodbye, Babylon – Judgment [Disc 3] Amazon
22Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning Sinatra 80th: All the Best Disc 2 Amazon
23Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood Some Velvet Morning Nancy & Lee Amazon
24Margaret Whiting Good Morning Mister Echo Complete Capitol Hits of Margaret Whiting Amazon
25John Hartford Morning Bugle Morning Bugle Amazon
26Hank Snow Colorado Country Morning I'm Still Movin' On [Disc 2] Amazon
27Grandpa Jones It's Raining Here This Morning (Remake) Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56 Amazon
28Shorty Long Good Night Cincinnati, Good Morning Tennessee Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1 Amazon
29Billy Fair Boogie In The Morning Stompin' 22 – Crazed Rhythm 'N' Blues Pounders! Amazon
30Muddy Waters Good Morning School Girl Folk Singer Amazon

Through the Bluegrass

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

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

 

Ships Upon the Sea

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

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

Devils and Angels

The devil is, indeed, an angel…albeit a fallen one. And the music we’ll be sharing this morning with our West County audience will take note of that fact with sounds that feature modern Americana as well as early to mid-century country sounds. Tune in to KOWS radio every Friday morning at 9 Pacific for the very best in roots sounds…and this week is no different:  modern Americana from Rob Ickes and The Devil Makes Three, mid-century country from Cowboy Copas and Lefty Frizzell, as well as some wild-eyed worship pieces from The Sunshine Boys, Benny Joy, and Margie Singleton (who performs the infamous “Jesus is My Pusher”). Just for you. Just in time for a springtime April morning.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1The Sunshine Boys We Need A Whole Lot More Of Jesus (And A Lot Less Rock And Roll) Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
2Ray Wylie Hubbard Lucifer And The Fallen Angels Tell The Devil I'm Getting There As Fast As I Can Amazon
3Bobby McMillon The Devil Song (Child 275) Art of Field Recording: Volume II – Disc 1: Survey Amazon
4Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley Friend Of The Devil The Country Blues Amazon
5Julie Miller The Devil Is an Angel Blue Pony Amazon
6Asleep at the Wheel/The Blind Boys of Alabama The Devil Ain't Lazy Reinventing the Wheel Amazon
7Cowboy Copas Don't Shake Hands With The Devil Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
8Powder River Jack, Kitty Lee Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail Cattle Call-Early Cowboy Music And It's Roots Amazon
9James King The Devil's Train Three Chords & The Truth Amazon
10Carrie Rodriguez Devil In Mind Give Me All You Got Amazon
11Shemekia Copeland Devil's Hand Alligator Records 45th Anniversary Collection Amazon
12Rory Block Devil Got My Woman Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James Amazon
13The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Devils Look Like Angels Between the Ditches Amazon
14Merle Haggard Dealing With The Devil Rainbow Stew – Live Amazon
15Benny Joy Dark Angel Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
16Ryan Cain And The Ables Cupid And The Devil Cupid And The Devil Amazon
17Lee Ann Womack Take The Devil Out Of Me The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone Amazon
18Lefty Frizzell From an Angel to a Devil Life's Like Poetry (Disc 4) Amazon
19The Devil Makes Three What Would You Give (In Exchange for Your Soul) Redemption & Ruin Amazon
20Willie Nelson Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down Country Music Amazon
21Robert Plant Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down Band Of Joy Amazon
22Margie Singleton Jesus Is My Pusher Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
23Eddie Noack Psycho Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
24The Treniers Devil's Mambo They Rock! They Roll! They Swing! Amazon
25Billy Barton The Devil, My Conscience And I Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) Amazon
26Peter Rowan Pulling The Devil By the Tail Reggaebilly Amazon
27Coleman Brothers Get Away, Mr. Satan, Get Away Hot Harmony Groups 1941-1949: Vol 3: When the Old Gang Amazon
28Rev W. M. Clark and Sisters Satan At Church (Pm 12559, 4792-1) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) Amazon

Free Form – Roll Like a Big Wheel

We mix it up once again. Nothing like ending the week on a high note, a low note, and just the right mix of jazz, pop, rock, country, bluegrass, and R&B. You know it won’t stop there because if it’s one thing we do well is find all that is good in between the boards. Join Dave Stroud for music featuring tracks from The Boswell Sisters, Red Foley, Julia Lee, The Prisonaires, Mose Allison, and John Prine. Friday mornings in West County … where we kick off the weekend on the stream our hearts out!

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Joan Osborne Roll Like A Big Wheel Bring It On Home Amazon
2The Mills Brothers Cherry (L. Armstrong) The Mills Brothers Golden G'ts(3) Amazon
3Les Paul & The Andrews Sisters Rumors Are Flying (Single Version) Trio's Complete Decca Recordings Plus (1936-47) [Disc 2] Amazon
4Louis Jordan Hungry Man Jivin' With Jordan Amazon
5Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra Shout, Brother, Shout – (featuring The Five Tones) Not So Quiet Please Amazon
6The Prisonaires Just Walking in the Rain Sun Ballads 1953-62 Amazon
7Mose Allison Lost Mind Allison Wonderland Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
8Dinah Washington Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Verve Unmixed Amazon
9Julia Lee When Jennie Does That Lowdown Dance Kansas City Star [Disc 5] Amazon
10Nellie Lutcher Let Me Tell You 'Bout The Guy Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 4] Amazon
11Boswell Sisters Put That Sun Back In the Sky Boswell Sisters Amazon
12Red Foley & The Andrews Sisters I Want To Be With You Always Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3] Amazon
13The Andrews Sisters Pistol Packin' Mama Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 1] Amazon
14Junior Brown Where Has All the Money Gone? Down Home Chrome Amazon
15Merle Haggard Mama Tried The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977 [Disc 1] Amazon
16Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Down In Mexico Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
17Santiago Jimenez Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan [Disc 2] Amazon
18Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars Havana Moon Levon Helm & The RCO All-Stars Amazon
19Levon Helm Tennessee Jed Electric Dirt Amazon
20Grateful Dead Dire Wolf Workingman's Dead Amazon
21Graham Parker Sugaree Your Country Amazon
22Jim Lauderdale The Night The Moon Fell Down Carolina Moonshine Amazon
23Jimmy Martin 20/20 Vision Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 [Disc 1] Amazon
24Hank Williams Cold, Cold Heart 24 Greatest Amazon
25John Prine Summers End The Tree of Forgiveness Amazon
26Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday Ken Burns Jazz Amazon
27Lula Reed I'll Drown In My Own Tears The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
28Effie Smith Water, Water The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2 Amazon
29Mildred Jones Mr. Thrill Warming By The Devils Fire – A Film By Charles Burnett Amazon
30T-Bone Walker Cold Cold Feeling Electric Blues – Part 1: Beginnings 1939-1954 Amazon
31Jo Stafford Shrimp Boats Your Hit Parade – 1951 Amazon
32Louis Armstrong The Music Goes Round And Around [Single Version] Rhythm Saved The World Amazon

Deeper Mississippi John Hurt

Join us as we peer into the music of Mississippi John Hurt, performed by contemporary artists with some bits and pieces of his own music. We’ll also feature some fragments from the original interview conducted by Tom Hoskins in 1963 after some simple sleuthing, in the town of Avalon not far from Hurt’s boyhood home of Teoc, Mississippi. The story of his rediscovery after the sixties folk revival (and Harry Smith’s original Anthology of American Folk Music) is legend. Sit back on a Friday morning and listen in for some of the great music of the minstrel from Teoc

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Bruce Cockburn Avalon, My Home Town Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
2Jesse Colin Young Creole Belle Together Amazon
3John Oates Spike Driver Blues Arkansas Amazon
4Doc & Merle Watson Got the Blues (Can't Be Satisfied) Live & Pickin' Amazon
5Bill Morrissey Avalon Blues The Essential Collection Amazon
6Taj Mahal Frankie And Albert The Best Of Taj Mahal Amazon
7John Hiatt I'm Satisfied Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
8David Johansen Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me Shaker Amazon
9Dave Van Ronk Spike Driver Blues Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk Amazon
10Rhiannon Giddens The Angels Laid Him Away Freedom Highway Amazon
11JL Stiles Trouble I Had All My Days Solo Sessions Amazon
12Taj Mahal Satisfied 'N' Tickled Too The Essential Taj Mahal Amazon
13Chris Smither Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt Honeysuckle Dog Amazon
14John Fahey Requiem for John Hurt Essential John Fahey Amazon
15Big Bill Broonzy Frankie And Johnny Classic African-American Ballads (Smithsonian Folkways) Amazon
16Ben Harper Sliding Delta Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
17Bettye LaVette Nobody's Dirty Business American Epic: The Sessions [Disc 2] Amazon
18Mike Dowling Blue Harvest Blues The Blues Ain't News Amazon
19Rory Block Candy Man Avalon: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
20Lucinda Williams Angels Laid Him Away Avalon Blues: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt Amazon
21Dave Alvin With Dean Schlabowske Louis Collins The Executioners Last Songs, Volume 2 Amazon
22Mississippi John Hurt Chicken Best Of Mississippi John Hurt [Live] Amazon
23John Oates My Creole Belle Arkansas Amazon
24Doc & Merle Watson Stack O'lee Ballads From Deep Gap Amazon
25Mississippi John Hurt Avalon Blues Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings Amazon
26Spuyten Duyvil Make Me A Pallet Social Hour Music Amazon

Early Gospel Blues

Gospel music informed much of the music from the early century and the blues took it’s soul and inspiration from many passages. Numerous street corner buskers promoted the scripture and many, like Blind Willie Johnson, Gary Davis, Oda Mae Terrell, and Mother McCollum were known as musical evangelists in addition to their place in the church. And the spirituals also informed the music of Blind Boy Fuller, Charley Patton, Barbecue Bob, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and so many early blues men and women. We’ll sample a few and take our Friday evening show with some reverence and grit.

No.Artist Title Album Buy
1Washington Phillips Denomination Blues – Part 1 Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues Amazon
2Mississippi John Hurt Praying On The Old Camp Ground Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings Amazon
3Mother McCollum Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951) Amazon
4Mother McCollum Oh Lord I'm Your Child Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951) Amazon
5Blind Lemon Jefferson He Arose From The Dead The Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Atlanta & Chicago 1926 [Disc 2] Amazon
6Blind Joe Taggart And Joshua White Scandalous And A Shame (Pm 12780, 20942-4) The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928-1932) Amazon
7Sam Collins I Want To Be Like Jesus In My Heart Complete Recorded Works 1927-31 Amazon
8Barbecue Bob When The Saints Go Marching In Complete Recorded Works Vol 1 Amazon
9Blind Willie Johnson I'm Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues Amazon
10Charley Patton Lord I'm Discouraged Blues Images Presents: 1920's Blues Classics Vol.14 Amazon
11Bukka White I Am In the Heavenly Way Masters Of The Delta Blues: The Friends Of Charlie Patton Amazon
12Bo Weavil Jackson (Sam Butler) Heaven Is My View Backwoods Blues (1926-1935) Amazon
13Lil McClintock Sow Good Seeds 21 Classic Blues Songs From The 1920's Vol. 10 Amazon
14Blind Nesbit Gussie Pure Religion Vol. 2-(1929-34) Amazon
15Blind Gussie Nesbit Canaan's Land When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel 1926 – 1936 Amazon
16Skip James Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader Complete Early Recordings Amazon
17Blind Boy Fuller Precious Lord Heart Ease Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.55) Amazon
18Blind Boy Fuller Must Have Been My Jesus Heart Ease Blues (The Blues Collection Vol.55) Amazon
19Josh White Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed Preachin' The Gospel – Holy Blues Amazon
20Josh White Lord, I Want To Die Easy Complete Recorded Works 1929-1940 Vol. 2 Amazon
21Blind Willie McTell I Got Religion I'm So Glad (w/ Kate McTell) The Classic Years: 1933 – 1935 New York " Chicago Amazon
22Bull City Red I Feel Like Shoutin' Blues And Gospel From The Eastern States (1935-1944) Amazon
23Memphis Minnie Let Me Ride Memphis Minnie – Queen of Country Blues, 1929 – 1937 [Disc 4] Amazon
24Brownie McGhee Done What My Lord Said The Complete Brownie McGhee [Disc 2] Amazon
25Jimpson & Group No More My Lord Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
26Sister O. M. Terrell God's Little Birds Country Gospel 1946-1953 Amazon
27Rev. Gary Davis Get Right Church Gospel, Blues, and Street Songs Amazon
28Reverend Gary Davis I Am The Light Of This World Harlem Street Singer Amazon
29Blind Willie McTell Lord Have Mercy If You Please Pig 'n Whistle Red Amazon
30Sister Rosetta Tharpe Everybody's Gonna Have A Wonderful Time Up There Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record Amazon
31Sister Rosetta Tharpe Saviour Don't Pass Me By Complete Recorded Works, 1938 – 1944; Volume 1 Amazon
32Big Joe Williams King Jesus Shake Your Boogie Amazon