Archive for April, 2008

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Big Road Blues Show 4/27/08: Mr. Welding’s Blues - The Testament Label

ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM

Johnny Young
Kid Man Blues
Johnny Young & Friends

Johnny Young
Prison Bound
Johnny Young & Friends

Johnny Young
My Baby Walked Out In 1954
Modern Chicago Blues

Bill Jackson
Old Rounder Blues
Long Steel Rail

Big Joe Williams
I Got My Ticket
Back To The Country

Chicago String Band
Don’t Sic Your Dog On Me
Chicago String Band

Maxwell Street Jimmy
Hanging Around My Door
Modern Chicago Blues

Avery Brady
Goin’ Home With My Baby
The Sound […]

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Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Big Road Blues Show 4/20/08: Mix Show

ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM

Earl King
Weary Silent Night
Earl’s Pearls

Earl Hooker
This Little Voice
Blue Guitar

Buddy & Ella Johnson
You’ll Get Them Blues
1953-1964

Buddy Boy Hawkins
Snatch It And Grab It
Screamin’ & Hollerin’ The Blues

Bill Johnson’s Louisiana…
Get The “L” On Down The Road
How Low Can You Go

Bertha “Chippie” Hill
Pratt City Hill
How Low Can You Go

Gatemouth Brown
She Winked Her Eye
Boogie Uproar

Wynonie Harris
Mr. Blues Is Coming To […]

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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

A Walk Up King Solomon Hill

Mississippi John Hurt’s “Avalon” Blues” provided a road map some thirty plus years later to the singer just as Bukka White’s “Aberdeen Mississippi Blues” led to the rediscovery of White (John Fahey and Ed Denson addressed a letter to “Bukka White (Old Blues Singer), c/o General Delivery, Aberdeen, Mississippi”). Similar, but more roundabout was a […]

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Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Big Road Blues Show 4/13/08: Lonnie Johnson - Woke Up With the Blues in My Fingers

ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM

Lonnie Johnson
Mr. Johnson’s Blues
The Original Guitar Wizard

Lonnie Johnson
Sweet Potato Blues
The Original Guitar Wizard

Lonnie Johnson
Steppin’ On the Blues
The Original Guitar Wizard

Lonnie Johnson
Interview
Complete Folkways Recordings

Lonnie Johnson
Woke Up With the Blues…
The Original Guitar Wizard

Lonnie Johnson
Tin Can Alley Blues
Lonnie Johnson Vol. 3 (1927-28)

Lonnie Johnson
Uncle Ned, Don’t Use Your Head
The Original Guitar Wizard

Texas Alexander
Work Ox Blues
Texas Alexander Vol. 1 (1927-28)

Texas […]

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Houston Stackhouse & Robert Nighthawk

Robert Nighthawk, Houston Stackhouse, Peck Curtis, Powell, MS, April, 1967
At the tail end of August 1967 George Mitchell recorded an impromptu combo who called themselves the Blues Rhythm Boys in Dundee, MS, a small town on route 61 roughly halfway between Tunica and Friars Point and just across the river from Helena, AR. […]

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Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Big Road Blues Show 4/6/08: Forgotten Blues Heroes Pt. 1 - Chicago

ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM

Arthur “Big Boy” Spires
One of These Days
Down Home Blues Classics Chicago

Arthur “Big Boy” Spires
Murmur Low
Down Home Blues Classics Chicago

Arthur “Big Boy” Spires
Which One Do I Love
Down Home Blues Classics Chicago

Arthur “Big Boy” Spires
About To Lose My Mind
Down Home Blues Classics Chicago

Arthur “Big Boy” Spires
My Baby Left Me
Chicago Blues: The Chance Era

Arthur “Big Boy” Spires
Rhythm Rock […]

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