Playlist Malcolm Holcomb: Sell me a gun (Come hell or high water) Joe Higgs and Roy Wilson: Manny oh Theophilius Beckford: Easy snappin Tranquility: Linda (Silver) Bill Stoner: Why do all the good women have old men (st) Kevin Gordon: One road out – Angola rodeo blues (Tilt and shine) Aretha Franklin: Dark end of the street…
28 August 2018
Playlist Kinky Friedman: Copper love (Circus of life) Kinky Friedman: jesus in pajamas Mulligan Brothers: i know that man (Songs for the living and otherwise) Nathan Salsburg: Sketch from life (Third) Tim Easton: Elmore James (Paco & the melodic polaroids) Malcolm Holcombe: Gone by the ol sunrise (Hell or high water McPeake Family: Will ye…
14 August 2018
Playlist Ellen Starski: Honey I’m not him (The day when peonies prayed for the ant) B.R. Lively: Summertime sky (Into the blue) Ras Michael: Rise jah jah children (The lion sleeps) (Dadawah- Prace and love) Chris Thomas: If not you (Bound to the ocean) Jason Isbell: Shotgun wedding (Sirens of the witch) Roy C: Shotgun wedding…
31 Juli 2018
Playlist Pete Seeger: Bells of Rhymney Mekons: Oranges and lemons (Rudy’s rockin kiddie caravan) Fifth Avenue: Bells of Rhymney George Harrison: If I needed someone Dori Peyton: Ringo boy (Girls in the garage vol. 6) Crooked Fingers: Carrion doves (Red devil dawn) Gwenifer Raymond: Sweep it up (You never were much of a dancer) Joe…
17 Juli 2018
Playlist Gamblers: Moon dawg (Singlerückseite zu LSD-25) Captain Beefheart Alice in blunderland (The spotlight kid) Link Wray: Rumble Dick Dale: Let’s go tripping Sandy Nelson: Let there be drums Trade Winds: New York is a lonely town Ventures: The bat (Ventures in space) Jackie Brenston: Rocket 88 Fe Fi Four +2: I wanna come back…
03 Juli 2018
Playlist Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy: Shanty of the Whale (Anchor) Bongo Herman, Les and Bunny: Know for i (Derrick Harriott – Riding the roots chariot) Rev. Wilkins: Trouble (VA – The North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic Vol. III (2014) Rolling Stones: Prodigal son ( Beggars banquet) Turnpike Troubadours: 7 oaks (st) Trampled by Turtles:…
19 Juni 2018
Playlist Gretchen Peters: Wichita (Dancing withe beast) Thad Foster: Kaw-Liga (Red headed stepchild) Jason and Pharis Romero: Old world style / You are the best thing (Sweet old religion) Neko Case: Halls of Sarah (Hell-on) Upsetters: Return of Django (This is Trojan) Odetta: Sail away ladies (Folk song tradition) Etta Baker: Railroad Bill (Railroad Bill)…
05 Juni 2018
Playlist Special Executing american music heritage Residents: Jambalaya (Stars and Hank forever – The american composers series vol. 2) Johnny Dowd: John the Revelator (Twinkle, twinkle) Snakefarm: Staggerlee (My halo at half light) Captain Beefheart: Yellow brick road (Sfe as milk) Kramer & Bill Frisell: America (Brill Building Vol. 2) Holy Modal Rounders: Across the…
22. Mai 2018
Playlist Ultan Conlon: Sorrow ease (Last days of the night owl) Sea and Cake: Paper window (Any day) Ken Boothe: Rasta never fails (Everything I own) I see hawks in LA: Poour me (Live and never learn) Robin Bennett, Danny Wilson, Tony Poole: Hate won’t win (Bennett Wilson Poole) Delaney Davidson: Ten ton forty foot…
08. Mai 2018
Playlist Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita: Listen to the grass grow (SOAR) Love: Wooly Bully (Forever changes) Cathy Dobson: Tequila Romeo (Tales from a suburban housewife) Uncle Tupelo: I got drunk (No depressiom demos) Tom Rush: Corina, Corina (The voice) Johnny Clash Project: London’s burning (st) Bonny Billy: A dream of the sea (More revery)…
24 April 2018
Playlist Anne Keating: Ghost of the untraveled road (Ghost of the untraveled road) David Munyon: Big snakes in the river (Planetary nights) Kirran Kane & Rayna Gellert: I don’t know why (The ledges) Rayna Gellert: Perry (Working too hard) Connie Converse: Roving woman (How sad how lonely) Sarah Jarosz: Fortune’s child (Vanity of vanities, a…
10 April 2018
Playlist Gerry Spehar: Freedom to grab (Anger management) Gerry Spehar: A soldier’s spiritual (Anger management) Dom Flemons: John Henry y Los Vaqueros (Black cowboys) Dom Flemons: Old Chisholm Trail (Black cowboys) Dom Flemons: The march of the Red River Valley (Black cowboys) Murph Gribble, Albert York, John Lusk: Rolling River (Altamont – Black stringband music)…
27 März 2018
Playlist Courtney Marie Andrews: How quickly your hearts mend (Honest life) Margo Price: Learning to lose (All American made) Caroline Spence: All the beds I’ve made (Spades and Roses) Dori Freeman: Ern and Zorry’s sneakin bitin dog (Letters never read) Lydia Loveless: Lover’s spat (Boy crazy and singles) Nora Jane Struthers: Robot (Champion) Nora Jane…
13 März 2018
Es geht weiter mit Roots, für mich selbst auch unerwartet, aber so ist das Leben. Playlist Lindi Ortega: Waitin round to die (Till the goin gets gone) Neil Young: Children of destiny (The visitor) Bily Bragg: King Tide and the sunny day glood (Bridges not walls) Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner: All I need is…
End of roots-radio.de
Due to some health problem I stopped producing this radio show. It lasted 17 years, which is quite a while. Thanks to Ems-Vechte-Welle who gave me the chance to play the music I love. But most of all thanks to Gerd Stassen, my partner in crime. He took the micrphone every second week and he…
05 Dezember 2017
This show was never finished and therefore never aired Playlist: Courtney Marie Andrews: How quickly your hearts mend (Honest life) Margo Price: Learning to lose (All American made) Caroline Spence: All the beds I’ve made (Spades and Roses) Dori Freeman: Ern and Zorry’s sneakin bitin dog (Letters never read) Lydia Loveless: Lover’s spat (Boy crazy…
21 November 2017
Playlist Special: Robert Plant Buddy & Julie Miller: What you gonna do Leroy (Written in chalk) Robert Plant: Morning Dew (Dreamland) Townes van Zandt: Nothin (Rain o a conga drum) Robert Plant: Monkey (Band of joy) Patty Griffin: 250000 miles (Servant of love) Sonny Boy Williamson: Bring it on home (Chess masters) Traffic: No face,…
07 November
Playlist: PP Arnold: Spinning wheel (The turning tide) Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn: Take me to Harlan (Echo in the valley) Chris Hillman : Wildflowers (Bidin my time) Janis Ian: At seventeen (The essential) Jim Byrnes: Everybody knows (Long hot summer days) Lee Hazlewood & Ann Margaret: Victims of the night (The cowboy and the…
24 Oktober 2017
Playlist: Mighty Mo Todgers & Ba Sissoko: Mali to Mississippi (Griot Blues) Matt Patershuk: (Sames as I ever have been) Joana Serrat: Shadows of time ( Drpping springs) Israel Nash Gripka: Chelsea hotel (Working class heroes and other favorites) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: In the world but not of the world (The kid) Margo Price: Pay…
10 Oktober 2017
Playlist: Pierce Edens: Body (Stripped down gussied up) Richard Thompson: Keep your distance (Acoustic classics II) Buddy and Julie Miller: Keep your distance (Love snuck up) Levi Cuss: Shoreditch High (Just below radio) Zara McFarlane: Fussin and fightin (Arise) William the Conquerer: Cold Ontario (Proud disueber of the peace) Kris Delmhorst: Foolish blood (The wild)…