Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
A Look At The George Mitchell Collection - Part 2
This is our second installment of my rummage thought the amazing trove of field recordings George Mitchell recorded over a twenty year period. For more background make sure to read part one. As I mentioned in the first installment a good chunk of these recordings have been collected in the 7-CD George Mitchell Collection box […]
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 3/30/08: West Coast Guitar - In The Shadow of T-Bone
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Goree Carter
Back Home Blues
Boogie Uproar: Texas Blues & R&B
Goree Carter
Love Is A Gamble
Boogie Uproar: Texas Blues & R&B
Goree Carter
Rock Awhile
Boogie Uproar: Texas Blues & R&B
Pee Wee Crayton
Louella Brown
The Essential Pee Wee Crayton
Pee Wee Crayton
Tired Of Travelin’
The Essential Pee Wee Crayton
Pee Wee Crayton
Poppa Stoppa
The Essential Pee Wee Crayton
Jimmy Nolen
After Hours
Scratchin’
Jimmy Nolen
It Hurts Me Too
Scratchin’
Jimmy Nolen
Wipe Your […]
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Blues In The News
A couple of interesting items from the New York Times in the past couple of days:
After Years of Neglect, Rebirth for a Blues Singer’s House
She danced the black bottom, doled out world-weary advice and claimed to be ready with a butcher knife if she caught her lover straying. She was a whiskey-slugging contralto with […]
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Chris Barber Presents… The Blues Legacy Series: Lost & Found
The thought of “lost” blues recordings always gets me worked up even though I usually get disappointed with the final result. Such is the case with Chris Barber’s The Blues Legacy Series: Lost & Found, a three volume series touting unreleased live recordings of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sonny Terry & […]
1 Comment » - Posted in 1950's Blues, 1960's Blues, Music Reviews by Jeff
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 3/23/08: Mix Show
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Bo Chatman
East Jackson Blues
Violin Sing The Blues For Me
Andrew & Jim Baxter
K. C. Railroad Blues
Violin Sing The Blues For Me
Peg Leg Howell
New Jelly Roll Blues
Atlanta Blues
Lloyd Glenn
Midnight Boogie
1947-1950
Cecil Gant
Midnight On Central Avenue
Cecil Gant: 1944-1945
Cecil Barfield
Lucy Mae Blues
George Mitchell Collection (Box Set)
Buddy Moss
Thousand Woman Blues
George Mitchell Collection (Box Set)
John Lee Ziegler
Who’s Gonna Be Your Man
George Mitchell […]
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
A Look At The George Mitchell Collection - Part 1
For the last few weeks I’ve been captivated by the recordings of George Mitchell who made some remarkable field recordings throughout the South over a twenty year period beginning in the early 1960’s. Many of these recordings have appeared on specialist labels like Southland, Revival, Flyright, Arhoolie and Rounder but are long out of print […]
5 Comments » - Posted in 1960's Blues, 1970's Blues, Field Recordings, Music Reviews by Jeff
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Gatemouth Moore: Great Rhythm & Blues Oldies Vol. 7
The world lost not only a great blues and gospel singer in May 2004, but a truly charismatic, larger than life figure when Arnold “Gatemouth” Moore passed in Yazoo City, Mississippi at the age of 90. Gatemouth summed up his talents as a blues singer this way: “I am one of the ultra-men blues […]
1 Comment » - Posted in 1970's Blues, Music Reviews by Jeff
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 3/16/08: Mix Show
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Pete Johnson
Blues on the Down Beat
Radio Broadcasts (1939-1947)
Pete Johnson & Joe Turner
Low Down Dog
Radio Broadcasts (1939-1947)
Pete Johnson
Dive Bomber
Radio Broadcasts (1939-1947)
King Solomon Hill
The Gone Dead Train
Mississippi Masters
Blind Teddy Darby
Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues
Before The Blues Vol. 1
Kokomo Arnold
Back To The Woods
Kokomo Arnold Vol. 1
Bobby King
Bad Avenue Blues
Chicago Blues From Federal
Johnny Lewis
Nappy Head Woman
Juke Joint Blues (JSP)
Wee Willie […]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Program Note
Just a quick note that in addition to hosting Big Road Blues I will also be hosting Doc’s Juke Joint this week. The program airs every Sunday night from 7-10pm. Doc’s Juke Joint is a continuing tradition on WGMC started over 15 years ago by Dave Moskal, originally called Muskie’s Juke Joint. In February 2008, […]
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 3/9/08: Blues & Hard Times - The Panic Is On
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Hezekiah Jenkins
The Panic Is On
Blues & Jazz Obscurities
Lonnie Johnson
Hard Times Ain’t Gone No Where
Lonnie Johnson 1937-1940
Barbecue Bob
We Sure Got Hard Times
Barbecue Bob Vol. 3
Joe Stone
It’s Hard Time
When The Levee Breaks
Black Ivory King
Working For The PWA
Black Boy Shine & Black Ivory King
Jimmy Gordon
Don’t Take Away My PWA
Jimmie Gordon Vol. 1
Carl Martin
Let’s Have A New Deal
Carl Martin […]
