Storytelling in song is not new. It’s mankind’s way of conveying, in both accuracy and reflection, the narrative from one perspective. Embellishments and hooks have long been the best way to make the story easy to digest and, if need be, to get a point (likely sociopolitical) across. We’ll be doing just that in this Friday’s episode: stories based in war, natural disasters, national tragedies and personal conflict. We’ll take a hundred year tour of storytelling from Bessie Smith to the Drive-by Truckers, from Memphis Minnie and The Tex-I-An Boys to Calexico, The Staple Singers and Marty Robbins. There are floods, murders, environmental catastrophes, bombings, and some wartime solemnity to be shared today. Tune into KOWS Community Radio every Friday morning for some fresh musical linens, curated by the outdoors and streaming to all of planet Earth on KOWSFM.COM/listen
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mac Wiseman | Wreck Of The Old '97 | Sings Old Time Country Favorites |  |
| 2 | Jimmie Driftwood | The Battle of New Orleans | Six Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles | |
| 3 | Marty Robbins | Ballad Of The Alamo | My Rifle, My Pony And Me | |
| 4 | Johnny Horton | Sink The Bismark | Classic Country Great Story Songs [Disc 2] | |
| 5 | Calexico | Victor Jara's Hands | Carried To Dust | |
| 6 | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | Ohio | So Far | |
| 7 | Joni Mitchell | Woodstock | Hits | |
| 8 | Grateful Dead | New, New Minglewood Blues | What a Long Strange Trip It's Been Disc 1 | |
| 9 | Grateful Dead | New Speedway Boogie | What a Long Strange Trip It's Been Disc 1 | |
| 10 | Arlo Guthrie with The Dillards | Ludlow Massacre | Thirty Two Cents Postage Due | |
| 11 | Tom Petty | Jefferson Jericho Blues | Mojo (Extra Mojo Version) | |
| 12 | Randy Newman | Burn On | Sail Away | |
| 13 | Charlie Haden | Is This America? (Katrina 2005) | Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy | |
| 14 | Johnny Cash | Five Feet High And Rising | Songs Of Our Soil | |
| 15 | Kansas Joe And Memphis Minnie | When the Levee Breaks | People Take Warning [Disc 2] Man Vs. Nature | |
| 16 | Sin-Killer Griffin | Wasn't That A Mighty Storm | Field Recordings, Vol. 5: Louisiana, Texas, Bahamas (1933-1940) | |
| 17 | The Tex-I-An Boys | Wasn't That A Mighty Storm? | Classic American Ballads From Smithsonian Folkways | |
| 18 | Bessie Smith | Backwater Blues | Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. | |
| 19 | Rory Block | Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down) | Confessions of A Blues Singer | |
| 20 | Chill Pill Dancers | Zoot Suit Riot | Swing: Next Generation | |
| 21 | Mimi & Richard Fariqa | Birmingham Sunday | Troubadours: Folk And The Roots Of American Music 4: 10 The West Coast | |
| 22 | Archie Shepp | Blues for Brother George Jackson | Verve Unmixed, Vol. 2 | |
| 23 | Drive-By Truckers | What It Means | American Band | |
| 24 | Will And Jehnean | Trail of Tears | Song of America | |
| 25 | Don McLean | American Pie | Songs For The Open Road [Platinum Legends] | |