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. […]
1 Comment » - Posted in 1960's Blues, Field Recordings, Mississippi Blues by Jeff
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 […]
