Music this week that speaks to hard times. From the Dust Bowl and Great Depression to personal hardships, we’ll share some bluegrass sounds, tunes steeped in tradition, soothing notes of country gospel, and folk blues. We’ll hear from The Weavers, Mavis Staples, Bobby Bare, and Pearly “Grandma” Davis (a nugget from Mike Seeger’s Old Time Music series). There will be talk of failing crops, revolution, and Oklahoma dust this week. Deeper Roots goes a little bit deeper with more songs about hard times this week on KOWS Community Radio, broadcasting live from the Cherry Street Historic District of Santa Rosa, California, where our neighbors just experienced their own hard times from flood waters. Thinking about them.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bobby Bare | Going Down the Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way) fcc warning | Darker Than Light |  |
| 2 | Tracy Chapman | Talkin' Bout a Revolution | Tracy Chapman | |
| 3 | Uncle Tupelo | No Depression | No Depression | |
| 4 | Bob Dylan | Hard Times | Good As I Been To You | |
| 5 | Dave Alvin | Waiting for the Hard Times to Go | Interstate City | |
| 6 | Mavis Staples | Hard Times Come Again No More | Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster | |
| 7 | The Byrds | Old Blue | The Byrds [Box Set] Disc 3 | |
| 8 | Peter Rowan | Seeds My Daddy Sowed | Dust Bowl Children | |
| 9 | Jimmy LaFave | My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed away) | Peace Town | |
| 10 | Pearly 'Grandma' Davis | It's These Hard Times | Close To Home: Old Time Music From Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952-1967 | |
| 11 | Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three | Hard Times Come and Go | Riverboat Soul | |
| 12 | Eddie Dattel | Trickle Down Blues | Trickle Down Blues | |
| 13 | Buck Owens | Waitin' In Your Welfare Line | The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1 | |
| 14 | Ryan Bingham | Hard Times | Mescalito | |
| 15 | Ry Cooder | You Must Unload | The Prodigal Son | |
| 16 | The Louvin Brothers | Preach The Gospel | The Family Who Prays: 26 Classic Tracks | |
| 17 | Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys | Never No More Hard Times-Blues | The King Of Western Swing-25 Hits 1935-1945 | |
| 18 | Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys | Hard Times Have Been Here (But They've Gone) | 1978-1979 | |
| 19 | Country Joe McDonald | Talkin' Dust Bowl | Vanguard Visionaries | |
| 20 | The Weavers | Bring Me Li'l Water Sylvia | Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2] | |
| 21 | Josh White | Hard Times Blues | ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 51 | |
| 22 | Sheryl Crow | No Depression In Heaven | The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family | |
| 23 | Country Joe McDonald | This Land Is Your Land | Vanguard Visionaries | |
| 24 | R.B. Morris | That's How Every Empire Falls | Singing Through the Wall. Songs for Western Sahara | |
| 25 | Bobby Bare | Times Are Gettin' Hard | 1964 (Warped 6425) | |
| 26 | The Tillers | All You Fascists Bound to Lose | The Tillers | |
| 27 | Aiken County String Band | Hard Times Breakdown | 78s | |
| 28 | Eels | Rock Hard Times | Shootenanny! | |