Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 8/31/08: Mix Show
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Blind Willie McTell
Love Changin’ Blues
McTell & Weaver - The Post-War Years
Curley Weaver
Trixie
McTell & Weaver - The Post-War Years
Sidney Maiden
Chicago Blues
I Have to Paint My Face
Eddie Hope
A Fool No More
Jook Joint Blues
Gatemouth Brown
Boogie Uproar
Boogie Uproar
Johnny Temple
Good Suzie (Rusty Knees)
Johnnie Temple Vol. 2 1938 -1940
Oscar “Buddy’ Woods
Low Life Blues
Oscar Woods & Black Ace 1930-1938
Frank Edwards
Gotta Get Together
Jook [...]
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Just A Good Girl Treated Wrong: The Blues Of Alice Moore Part 2
We left off our look at Alice Moore with two sessions she cut in 1934. After 1934 Henry Brown and Ike Rodgers no longer accompanied Alice on record with the piano chair filled for most of the remaining sessions by the popular Peetie Wheatstraw. Moore cut two sessions in July 1935 for a total of [...]
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 8/25/08: I’m A Harmonica King - Early Harmonica Blues
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Bobby & Robert Cooksey
Need More Blues
Leecan & Cooksey Vol. 1
Bobby & Robert Cooksey
Dirty Guitar Blues
Leecan & Cooksey Vol. 1
George “Bullet” Williams
Touch Me Light Mama
Blowing The Blues
Ollis Martin
Police And High Sheriff…
Blowing The Blues
Blues Birdhead
Mean Low Blues
Blowing The Blues
Eddie Kelly’s Wash. Band
If You Think I’m Lovin’…
Carolina Blues 1937-1945
Daddy Stovepipe
If You Want Me, Baby
Alabama Black Country Dance Bands
Skoodle [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Just A Good Girl Treated Wrong: The Blues Of Alice Moore Part 1
Before World War II St. Louis was a thriving blues town. Henry Townsend, who was an integral part of the St. Louis blues scene during its formative years, had this to say: “It was a whole lotta fun. You didn’t find a dead place in town. Sometimes we’d just get together as a group and [...]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 8/17/08: Mix Show
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
The Spiders
Love’s All I’m Puttin’ Down
The Imperial Sessions
The Spiders
I’m Slipping In
The Imperial Sessions
The Spiders
I Didn’t Want To Do It
The Imperial Sessions
Blind Percy
Fourteenth Street Blues
And This Is Free
JT “Funny Paper” Smith
Hoppin’ Toad Frog
J. T. ”Funny Paper” Smith (1930-1931)
Bayless Rose
Frisco Blues
Ragtime Blues Guitar
Blind Willie McTell
Don’t Forget It
McTell & Weaver 1949 - 1950
Jimmy McCracklin
Just Got To Know
I Had [...]
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
2009 Classic Blues Artwork Calendar Vol. 6
In this digital age with instant access to just about any song in crystal clear sound it’s hard to convey to the uninitiated the lure of old, crackly 78’s or the attraction to ancient record ephemera. For those of us fascinated with anything related to the vintage blues of the 1920’s and 1930’s, for those [...]
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 8/10/08: Blues With A Feeling - Big Walter Horton & Little Walter
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Little Buddy Doyle
Slick Capers Blues
Masters Of Memphis Blues
Walter Horton
Little Boy Blue
Mouth Harp Maestro
Walter Horton
Black Gal
Mouth Harp Maestro
Walter Horton
What’s The Matter With You
Mouth Harp Maestro
Walter Horton
West Winds Are Blowing
Sun Records: Blues Years 1950-1958
Wilie Nix
Prison Bound Blues
Sun Records: Blues Years 1950-1958
Walter Horton
Hard Hearted Woman
Mouth Harp Maestro
Joe Hill Louis
Tiger Man
The Be-Bop Boy
Jimmy & Walter
Easy
Sun Records: Blues Years 1950-1958
Muddy [...]
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Chicago Defender Blues Advertisements: Atlanta Blues
New Jelly Roll Blues (MP3)
Beaver Slide Rag (MP3)
In our weekly survey of the blues ads that appeared in the Chicago Defender newspaper we turn our attention to Atlanta and two records cut by Columbia a couple of weeks apart in 1927. “New Jelly Roll Blues” b/w “Beaver Slide Rag” was recorded by Peg [...]
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Blues Legends At The 2008 Pocono Blues Festival
Jimmy McCracklin, 2008 Pocono Blues Festival
The term blues legend is too loosely thrown around, seemingly applied to any artist who’s had some measure of longevity in the blues world without regard to the actual content of their recordings. Jimmy McCracklin is a blues legend and I’ve been fan ever since I bought a collection of [...]
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 8/3/08: Stomp Em’ Down To The Bricks - St. Louis Piano
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Henry Brown
Stomp Em’ Down To The Bricks
Down on the Levee
Henry Brown
Deep Morgan Blues
Down on the Levee
Henry Brown
Henry Brown Blues
Twenty First. St. Stomp
Mary Johnson
Those Blackman Blues
Down on the Levee
Henry Brown
Eastern Chimes Blues
Down on the Levee
Walter Davis
Think You Need A Shot
Walter Davis Vol. 2 (1935-1937)
Walter Davis
Sloppy Drunk Again
Walter Davis Vol. 1 (1933 - 1935)
James “Stump” Johnson
Bound To [...]
