Category Archives: Deeper Roots on KWTF

The influence of gospel music on the forms of rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, and soul are fairly well documented. The elements of early black gospel music arose from a tradition of work songs, anthems, spirituals, hollers, and the stylized performance of hymns. The evolution of the form, particularly in the Church of God In Christ (COGIC), reveals a freedom of expression that made its listeners ‘move with the spirit’. We’ll hear from the ladies from the COGIC as well as the traditionalists that could bring in the masses to the church with their uplifting, sometimes roaring voices including Sister Ernestine Washington, Edna Gallmon Cooke, Sister Goldia Haynes, Mahalia Jackson, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Clara Ward Singers	When The Saints Go Marching In	Somebody Bigger Than You & I
2	Sister Ernestine Washington	Jesus Is All The World To Me	Sister Ernestine Washington (1943-1948)
3	Sister Ernestine Washington	I Know The Lord Will Make A Way	Sister Ernestine Washington Vol. 2 (1954-c.1958)
4	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Teach Me To Be Right	Vol. 3-1946-47 Complete Record
5	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Cain't No Grave Hold My Body Down	Gospel Train
6	Marie Knight	Marie Knight – Tharpe and Singing	Interview
7	Marie Knight	Gospel Train	Hallelujah What A Song!
8	Mahalia Jackson	Move On Up A Little Higher	Jubilation! Great Gospel Performances, Vol. 1: Black Gospel
9	Mahalia Jackson	I Have A Friend	Legend: The Best Of Mahalia Jackson [Disc 2]
10	Mahalia Jackson & Della Reese	Della Reese Interview
11	Della Reece And The Meditations	Hard To Get Along	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
12	Cora Martin	Didn't It Rain	The Great Gospel Women
13	Madam Edna Gallmon Cooke & The Mount Vernon Men's Choir	Angels, Angels, Angels	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
14	Edna Gallmon Cooke And The Radio Four	Somebody Touched Me	How Sweet it Was
15	Sister Goldia Haynes	This Old World	The Great Gospel Women
16	Lucy Smith	O What A Time	The Great Gospel Women
17	Shirley Caesar	I'd Rather Serve Jesus	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
18	Mary Deloatch	The Lord's Gospel Train	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
19	Jessie Mae Renfro	I Must Tell Jesus	The Great Gospel Women
20	Sister Lucille Barbee	Where Could I Go	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
21	Sister Emily Bram	Each Day	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
22	Bessie Griffin And The Caravans	Let Us Run	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
23	Candi Staton & The Jewel Gospel Trio	Jesus Is Listening	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958
24	Marion Williams – The Stars Of Faith	When I Lay This Body Down	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
25	Clara Ward Singers	Packing Up	Somebody Bigger Than You & I
26	Roberta Martin And The Roberta Martin Singers	Rock My Soul	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
27	Clara Ward (With Unidentified Group)	Peace In The Valley	Golden Gospel Gals 1949-1959 [Disc 2]
28	Evelyn Freeman And The Exciting Voices Chorus	Didn't It Rain	Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel, 1945-1958
29	Dorothy Love Coates	No Hiding Place	The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates And The Original Gospel Harmonettes
30	Albertina Walker	Albertina Walker Interview	Interview
31	Albertina Walker	Put a Little Love In Your Heart	Platinum Gospel-Albertina Walker
32	Albertina Walker & The Caravans	How Do You Feel	Precious Lord Gospel Gold
33	Marion Williams	He's A High Class Physician	How Sweet it Was
34	Thomas A. Dorsey with Marion Williams	If We Never Needed The Lord Before [Album Version]	Precious Lord Recordings Of The Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey
35	Bunk Johnson/Ernestine Washington	Where Could I Go	Smithsonian Folkways: Classic African American Gospel

Songs About Telephones

July 11, 2015 Dave

It’s ‘theme time’ in this episode as we find a muse that songwriters have been looking to since it’s appearance in the 19th century: the telephone. Join us for operators, dial tones, party lines, busy signals, and hang-ups…just a few of the topics in a show featuring gospel from the Selah Jubilee Singers and Sister Wynona Carr, sixties soul from The Marvelettes and The Orlons, tradition from Bill Monroe and Wade Mainer, and more.

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	The Manhattan Transfer	Operator	The Manhattan Transfer
2	The Golden Gate Quartet	I Just Telephone Upstairs	Vol. 6 (1949-1952)
3	The Spirit Of Memphis Quartet	Atomic Telephone	The Best Of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol 2
4	Selah Jubilee Singers	Royal Telephone	Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 (1939-1941)
5	Burl Ives	Royal Telephone	Greatest Hits
6	Sister Wynona Carr	Operator, Operator	Dragnet For Jesus
7	Bill Monroe	When The Phone Rang	Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 1]
8	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	The Phone Call	More Behind the Picture Than the Wall
9	Wade Mainer	God's Radio Phone	I'm Not Looking Backward
10	Doc Watson	No Telephone In Heaven	My Dear Old Southern Home
11	The Carter Family	No Telephone In Heaven	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 2]
12	The Carter Family	Hello Central! Give Me Heaven	The Carter Family: 1927-1934 [Disc 5]
13	Orville Reed	The Telephone Girl	Lead Kindly Light
14	Bonnie Guitar	Hello, Hello, Please Answer The Phone	Only The Moon Man Knows: Rare Recordings 1951-1957
15	George Jones	Wrong Number	Star Creek Promotions 4
16	Aaron Neville	Wrong Number (I Am Sorry, Goodbye)	Treacherous [Disc 1]
17	Irma Thomas	Sorry Wrong Number	If You Want It, Come and Get It
18	Mickey & Sylvia	Can't Get You On The Phone	Rock With A Sock
19	The Orlons	Don't Hang Up	Malt Shop Memories: Jukebox Gems (Disc 2)
20	Marvelettes	Beechwood 4-5789	The Soul of Detroit – Disc 1
21	Tony & Tyrone	Please Operator	After Hours 3 – More Northern Soul Masters
22	Mary Wells	Operator	The Soul of Detroit – Disc 2
23	Jorma Kaukonen	Operator	River Of Time
24	The Grateful Dead	Operator	American Beauty
25	Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	Pennsylvania 6-5000	The Centennial Collection Disc 1
26	Hank Penny	Hold the Phone	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
27	Stonewall Jackson	Can't Hang Up the Phone	Original Greatest Hits
28	Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn	Answer The Phone With Loretta Lynn	A Tribute To A Legend
29	Tom T. Hall	Jesus On the Radio (Daddy On the Phone)	The Definitive Collection: Tom T. Hall
30	Pee Wee Crayton	Phone Call From My Baby	ABC Of The Blues Vol 7
31	Pee Wee Crayton	The Telephone Is Ringing	ABC Of The Blues Vol 7
32	Floyd Dixon	Call Operator 210	The Aladdin Story (Pt. 2)
33	Floyd Dixon	Telephone Blues	The Cocktail Combos [Disc 3]
34	Eddie Gorman And His Group	Telephone Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
35	Elana James	Telephone Man	Black Beauty

Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition

Ladies of Country Music

June 20, 2015 Dave

The story of women in country music begins in the early century with The Carters and the lesser known names of Roba Stanley, Louisiana Lou, and Patsy Montana. If the music was not about heaven and sinners, then it was about being a single girl or a cowboy’s sweetheart. But there was a sea change in post-war country music with the strength of Kitty Wells’ and the assertive independent sounds of Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton. To quote an online source, “the story of gender in post-war country music is largely the story of how women, in song and on stage, came to represent themselves in full.”

No.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Patsy Montana And The Prairie Ramblers	I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart	26 All-Time Country Classics
2	Lulu Belle & Scotty	Wish I Was A Single Girl Again	Flowers In The Wildwood
3	Patsy Montana	My Poncho Pony	Flowers In The Wildwood
4	Maddox Brothers and Rose	Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down	1948 (Warped 4872)
5	Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter	He's Solid Gone	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
6	Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes	I'm Leaving You	Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967
7	Kitty Wells	My Cold, Cold Heart Is Melted Now	Country Music Hall Of Fame
8	Kitty Wells	Password	Greatest Songs
9	Kitty Wells	Makin' Believe	Greatest Songs
10	The Davis Sisters	I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know	The Essential Skeeter Davis
11	Skeeter Davis	(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too	The Essential Skeeter Davis
12	Charline Arthur	Welcome To The Club	Welcome To The Club
13	Wanda Jackson	Makin' Believe	Daydreamin'
14	Wanda Jackson	Don't Ask Me Why	Before The Music Died – Wanda Jackson: The Complete Recordings 1954-1962 [Disc 3]
15	Patsy Cline	Leavin' on Your Mind	12 Greatest Hits
16	Patsy Cline	How Can I Face Tomorrow	The Patsy Cline Collection [Disc 2]
17	Ferlin Husky & Jean Shephard	A Dear John Letter	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
18	Loretta Lynn	Dont Come Home A-Drinkin (With Lovin on Your Mind)	Golden Age of Country Volume 1: Waltz Across Texas [Disc 2]
19	Goldie Hill	It's A Lovely Lovely World	I Got A Woman : Gems From The Decca Vaults [Disc 2]
20	Connie Smith	Once A Day	The Essential Connie Smith
21	June Carter Cash	Strange Woman	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
22	June Carter Cash	How Did You Get Away from Me	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
23	Tammy Wynette	Stand By Your Man	Super Hits
24	Tammy Wynette	D-I-V-O-R-C-E	Country Legends
25	Brenda Lee	Johnny One Time	The Brenda Lee Story: Her Greatest Hits
26	Norma Jean	The Gambler And The Lady	The Best of Country
27	Margie Singleton	Old Records	One More Record Please
28	Dottie West	Paper Mansions	The Essential Dottie West
29	Jessi Colter	I'm Looking for Blue Eyes	Wanted! The Outlaws [Bonus Tracks]
30	Sammi Smith	Help Me Make It Through The Night	Sammi Smith early 60's the Best Of (varese sarabande 96)
31	Dolly Parton	Coat of Many Colors	Artist's Choice: Emmylou Harris
32	Emmylou Harris	If I Could Only Win Your Love	Portraits (1 of 3)
33	Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette & Kitty Wells	It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels	Honky Tonk Angels
34	Rosanne Cash	She's Got You	The List
35	Alison Krauss	Baby, Now That I've Found You	Now That I've Found You
36	k.d. lang	Sugar Moon	Shadowland
37	k.d. lang & the Reclines	Big Big Love	Absolute Torch and Twang

Blues, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition

Folk & Blues Fusion

June 6, 2015 Dave

We blend sounds of the South with those of the Appalachians, sharing the sounds of performers who were known in different locales, passing lyrics and music, making them pliable as they went from town to town. Recordings were made in hotel rooms, front porches, and music stores by record company representatives who traveled from city to city with primitive recording equipment. By the time the recordings were ‘offloaded’ back at the studios, details of the performers and the differences between black and white were blurred. We’ll hear from the great Riley Puckett, Mississippi John Hurt, The Blue Sky Boys, and Pink Anderson in this week’s episode.

Blues, Deeper Roots on KWTF

Texas Bluesmen

May 23, 2015 Dave

When one thinks of the early influences of the blues, they’re taken down to the Mississippi Delta or maybe into East Georgia, where the Piedmont blues style was born. But Texas is not always a player in the discussion primarily because most do not necessarily know the origins of its native sons even though they may know their names. Let’s try Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, and Lightnin’ Hopkins to start with and we’ll go on from there. In Friday night’s Deeper Roots show we visit the streets of Deep Ellum, Houston, and Galveston, where many of the performers would ply their trade in the Lone Star State. Although we won’t cover Blind Lemon, we’ll have plenty of music to keep us tapping out toes including Texas Alexander, Pee Wee Crayton, Freddie King, and Stevie Ray Vaughan…and all of the greats who made their name in between.

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Free Form, Gospel

Free Form – May 2015

May 16, 2015 Dave

Every so often we like to spend time wandering about the last century of jazz, blues, gospel and country, sharing music that’s not lost, only tucked away. In this week’s episode we’ll do just that and share our first ‘free form’ show of the year with you all. We’ll have blues about clothes being ripped off by Lightnin’ Hopkins and the Chicago Black Swans, a gumbo of Louisiana sounds from the likes of Doug Kershaw, beer toasting Tex Mex from Doug Sahm, and pining bluegrass from Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, and Ralph Stanley. Tune in for another two hours of the very best of the last century of America’s music with Dave Stroud in a show produced exclusively for KWTF community radio.

Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition, Mountain Music

Home on the Range

May 9, 2015 Dave

Generations of youth over the last century grew up with the images of cowpokes, rustlers, bad guys, and ranching through dime novels, radio, television and, of course, the music. In this episode of Deeper Roots, we focus on the legacy of the ‘cowboy crooners’ and country balladeers who sang about life on the trail alongside the grub wagon on the lone prairie where the imagination could take you anywhere it pleased…and often did. We’ll hear the earliest ‘cowboy songs’ by Vernon Dalhart and Carl Sprague; and we’ll also find ourselves being serenaded (quite gently) by Tex Ritter and Gene Autry who reached out for the generic, mass appeal. The music was full of tradition as well and we’ll hear some contemporary reflections from David Wilkie And Cowboy Celtic, Jim Lauderdale, and (of course) Waylon, Willie, Merle, and Johnny.

Deeper Roots on KWTF, Early Jazz

Back To The Cotton Club

May 2, 2015 Dave

We follow up to a previous episode and get back to the music of the Cotton Club, the jewel that grew out of the Harlem Renaissance. While it featured the top shelf acts of Harlem, it was also the typical whites-only club where African-Americans could perform but not attend. Despite these Jim Crow policies, what the Cotton Club brought us was a legendary lineup of performers and performances that rivals none in the history of jazz. Our show features the music of Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway and his sister Blanche, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford and others whose careers were launched there.

Bluegrass, Blues, Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Fifties Country, Folk and Tradition, Theme Time

Demon Alcohol

April 25, 2015 Dave

We’ve got ‘songs of the sauce’, so to speak. Our show will feature a century of America’s music with stories of moonshine, rye whiskey, bubbles in the beer, bartenders, and hangovers going as far back as 1928. But we’ve also got a Bob Wills tribute piece from a new Asleep at the Wheel release, indie rockabilly from new Austinians Tammy Lynn & Myles High, R&B truckers The Harlem Hamfats, and local favorite David Luning. Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of a century of America’s Music on KWTF, member-supported community radio for Bodega Bay and all of Sonoma County.

Country, Country Gospel, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition

Country Gospel

April 18, 2015 Dave

We’ve got a show jam-packed with gospel sounds set against a backdrop of fiery fields, unclouded days, and great speckled birds. Join us on our regular two hour Friday night show on KWTF as we take a trip down the country gospel highway, celebrating a style of music that was mostly inspired by the memories of ‘back home’ and the church, where a lot of our performers were first introduced to music. We’ll share that old time religion in spiritual and song from deep in the heartland. We open with some of the classic old time gospel sounds of The Carter Family and J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineer then go flying down heaven’s railway on the Gospel Cannonball while Johnny Cash, The Louvin Brothers, T. Texas Tyler, Hank Williams, and Kitty Wells will be preaching on that old country gospel stage alongside bluegrass gospel favorites from mid-century.And we’ll also hear a couple of new tracks from Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives.

Deeper Roots