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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Chicago Defender Blues Advertisements: Blind Blake
Dry Bone Shuffle (MP3)
As we continue our mission to reprint the blues advertisements that appeared in the Chicago Defender we turn our attention to Blind Blake, one of the most popular bluesmen of the 1920’s. His only rival in popularity was Blind Lemon Jefferson, also a Paramount artist, who had a whopping forty-four ads [...]
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 9/7/08: Country Blues Goldmine, Lost Blues 78’s Found! - The Blues of John Tefteller
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
John Tefteller
Introduction
Interview
King Solomon Hill
Times Has Done Got Hard
Blues Images Presents…Vol. 1
John Tefteller
King Solomon Hill Intro
Interview
King Solomon Hill
My Buddy, Blind Papa Lemon
Blues Images Presents…Vol. 2
John Tefteller
King Solomon Hill Outro
Interview
Blind Joe Reynolds
Ninety Nine Blues
Blues Images Presents…Vol. 2
John Tefteller
Blind Joe Reynolds
Interview
Blind Joe Reynolds
Cold Woman Blues
Blues Images Presents…Vol. 1
Mississippi Sheiks
He Calls That Relgion
Blues Images Presents…Vol. 3
John Tefteller
Record Pressing/Marketing
Interview
Jaydee Short
Lonesome [...]
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Some Ramblings On Peter B. Lowry, Field Recording & The Trix Label
Pete Lowry & Tarheel Slim 1970’s, photos by Valerie Wilmer
I suppose it sounds rather romantic spending your time roaming around the south with a tape recorder recording blues but for all the rewards and exciting discoveries it’s a stressful enterprise, not to mention a precarious way to make a living. These days hardly anyone one [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in 1970's Blues, East Coast Blues, Field Recordings by Jeff
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 8/31/08: Mix Show
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Blind Willie McTell
Love Changin’ Blues
McTell & Weaver - The Post-War Years
Curley Weaver
Trixie
McTell & Weaver - The Post-War Years
Sidney Maiden
Chicago Blues
I Have to Paint My Face
Eddie Hope
A Fool No More
Jook Joint Blues
Gatemouth Brown
Boogie Uproar
Boogie Uproar
Johnny Temple
Good Suzie (Rusty Knees)
Johnnie Temple Vol. 2 1938 -1940
Oscar “Buddy’ Woods
Low Life Blues
Oscar Woods & Black Ace 1930-1938
Frank Edwards
Gotta Get Together
Jook [...]
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Just A Good Girl Treated Wrong: The Blues Of Alice Moore Part 2
We left off our look at Alice Moore with two sessions she cut in 1934. After 1934 Henry Brown and Ike Rodgers no longer accompanied Alice on record with the piano chair filled for most of the remaining sessions by the popular Peetie Wheatstraw. Moore cut two sessions in July 1935 for a total of [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in 1920's Blues, 1930's Blues, Female Singers, St. Louis by Jeff
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 8/25/08: I’m A Harmonica King - Early Harmonica Blues
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Bobby & Robert Cooksey
Need More Blues
Leecan & Cooksey Vol. 1
Bobby & Robert Cooksey
Dirty Guitar Blues
Leecan & Cooksey Vol. 1
George “Bullet” Williams
Touch Me Light Mama
Blowing The Blues
Ollis Martin
Police And High Sheriff…
Blowing The Blues
Blues Birdhead
Mean Low Blues
Blowing The Blues
Eddie Kelly’s Wash. Band
If You Think I’m Lovin’…
Carolina Blues 1937-1945
Daddy Stovepipe
If You Want Me, Baby
Alabama Black Country Dance Bands
Skoodle [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Just A Good Girl Treated Wrong: The Blues Of Alice Moore Part 1
Before World War II St. Louis was a thriving blues town. Henry Townsend, who was an integral part of the St. Louis blues scene during its formative years, had this to say: “It was a whole lotta fun. You didn’t find a dead place in town. Sometimes we’d just get together as a group and [...]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 8/17/08: Mix Show
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
The Spiders
Love’s All I’m Puttin’ Down
The Imperial Sessions
The Spiders
I’m Slipping In
The Imperial Sessions
The Spiders
I Didn’t Want To Do It
The Imperial Sessions
Blind Percy
Fourteenth Street Blues
And This Is Free
JT “Funny Paper” Smith
Hoppin’ Toad Frog
J. T. ”Funny Paper” Smith (1930-1931)
Bayless Rose
Frisco Blues
Ragtime Blues Guitar
Blind Willie McTell
Don’t Forget It
McTell & Weaver 1949 - 1950
Jimmy McCracklin
Just Got To Know
I Had [...]
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
2009 Classic Blues Artwork Calendar Vol. 6
In this digital age with instant access to just about any song in crystal clear sound it’s hard to convey to the uninitiated the lure of old, crackly 78’s or the attraction to ancient record ephemera. For those of us fascinated with anything related to the vintage blues of the 1920’s and 1930’s, for those [...]
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 8/10/08: Blues With A Feeling - Big Walter Horton & Little Walter
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Little Buddy Doyle
Slick Capers Blues
Masters Of Memphis Blues
Walter Horton
Little Boy Blue
Mouth Harp Maestro
Walter Horton
Black Gal
Mouth Harp Maestro
Walter Horton
What’s The Matter With You
Mouth Harp Maestro
Walter Horton
West Winds Are Blowing
Sun Records: Blues Years 1950-1958
Wilie Nix
Prison Bound Blues
Sun Records: Blues Years 1950-1958
Walter Horton
Hard Hearted Woman
Mouth Harp Maestro
Joe Hill Louis
Tiger Man
The Be-Bop Boy
Jimmy & Walter
Easy
Sun Records: Blues Years 1950-1958
Muddy [...]
