Archive for August, 2007
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Big Road Blues Show 8/5/07: Jimmy “T-99″ Nelson - Mr. Big Wheel
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Jimmy Nelson
T-99 Blues
Cry Hard Luck
Jimmy Nelson
Rain Drop blues
Cry Hard Luck
Jimmy Nelson
Sweetest Little Girl
Cry Hard Luck
Jimmy Nelson
Meet Me With Your Black…
Cry Hard Luck
Jimmy Nelson
Bad Habit Blues
Cry Hard Luck
Jimmy Nelson
Second Hand Fool
Cry Hard Luck
Jimmy Nelson
Cry Hard Luck
Cry Hard Luck
Jimmy Nelson
Interview Part 1
Jimmy Nelson
Interview Part 2
Jimmy Nelson
Big Mouth
Cry Hard Luck
Jimmy Nelson
Married Men Like Sport
Cry Hard Luck
Jimmy Nelson
Right Around […]
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
2008 Classic Blues Artwork Calendar Vol. 5
In the fall of 2005 one of the most mysterious, elusive and sought after 78’s seemingly appeared out of nowhere. The record, Son House’s “Clarksdale Moan” b/w “Mississippi County Farm Blues”, was recorded by Paramount in 1930 in what has been called the greatest early blues session ever recorded. In addition to Son House, Charley […]
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Blind Willie McTell 78 Discovered
Record collector John Tefteller has just issued what is apparently the only known copy of Blind Willie McTell & Mary Willis’ “Talkin To You Wimmen’ About The Blues.” The track and it’s flip side, “Merciful Blues”, was issued on the CD that accompanies Tefteller’s most recent blues artwork calendar. To quote Tefteller: “the record […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Texas Piano Blues - 1920’s & 1930’s Part 5
Whistlin’ Alex Moore certainly knew intimately about this area as he related to Oliver: “Oh they were tough joints…I’d play them all, from North Dallas to the East Side…Froggy Bottom…Central Tracks…well they had just about everything up and down there from beer joints to saloons.” Moore was a resident of Dallas all his eighty years […]
