Archive for September, 2007

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Big Road Blues Show 9/2/07: The Folkways Label - On My Way to Moe Asch

ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM

Nora King/Mary Lou Williams
Blues Until My Baby Comes Home
Classic Blues from Smithsonian, Vol. 2

Josh White
Trouble
Free And Equal Blues

Leadbelly
Good Mornin’ Blues
Bourgeois Blues

Little Brother Montgomery
Out West Blues
Faro Street Jive

Memphis Slim
Harlem Bound
The Folkways Years, 1959-1973

Roosevelt Sykes
47th Street Jive
Blues by Roosevelt…

Cat-Iron
Got a Girl in Ferriday`
Sings Blues and Hymns

Cat-Iron
Poor Boy
Sings Blues and Hymns

Short Stuff Macon
Short Stuff’s Corrina
Hell Bound and Heaven […]

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Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Lonnie Johnson: The King Sides Part 3

Another dozen sides were cut in 1949 including two unissued and one rejected side. Many more ballads were cut during this period including the dreamy “Bewildered”, “Don’t Play With My Love”, “I Found A Dream”, “I’m So Afraid” and his last hit “Confused” which charted in February 1950. Of special interest were a pair […]

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