Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Robert Johnson: Enough Already!
OK, with the recent high profile articles in Vanity Fair I can honestly say that I’ve reached my limit regarding Robert Johnson. If you missed this I’m referring to Frank DiGiacomo’s Searching For Robert Johnson and his follow-up A Disputed Robert Johnson Photo Gets the C.S.I. Treatment which deal with a possible newly found Johnson [...]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
King Oliver And The Blues Singers
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
Lately I’ve found myself listening quite a bit to the music of King Oliver. I consider myself a jazz fan although certainly not an expert and actually found my way to Oliver through his association with several early blues singers who he accompanied. I’ve always been impressed with Oliver’s pungent, bluesy [...]
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 10/26/08: The Modern Downhome Blues Sessions
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Charley Booker
No Ridin’ Blues
Modern Downhome Blues Sessions Vol. 1
Driftin’ Slim
Down South Blues
Modern Downhome Blues Sessions Vol. 1
Baby Face Turner
Blue Serenade
Modern Downhome Blues Sessions Vol. 2
Howlin’ Wolf
Crying At Daybreak
Modern Downhome Blues Sessions Vol. 3
Howlin’ Wolf
Riding In The Moonlight
Travelling Record Man
Boyd Gilmore
I Believe I’ll Settle Down
Modern Downhome Blues Sessions Vol. 1
Boyd Gilmore
Ramblin’ On My Mind
Travelling Record Man
Houston [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in 1940's Blues, 1950's Blues, Playlists by Jeff
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Scott Dunbar: Blues From Lake Mary
Living far from prevailing blues currents near Woodville, Mississippi some fifteen miles from Lake Mary, Scott Dunbar was a musician of extraordinary and utterly singular ability who’s small recorded output caused barley a ripple of interest upon release. There are certain musicians who’s repertoire resides in the blues tradition yet who have developed a highly [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in 1950's Blues, 1970's Blues, Mississippi Blues by Jeff
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 10/19/08: Mix Show
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Johnny Shines
Solid Gold
Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
Johnny Shines
Heartache
Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
Tarheel Slim
Somebody Changed The Lock
New York City Blues
Joe Hill Louis
I Feel Like A Million
Memphis Blues - Important Postwar Blues
Willie Nix
Prison Bound Blues
Memphis Blues - Important Postwar Blues
Luke ‘Long Gone’ Miles
Hello Josephine
Juke Joint Blues
J.B. Lenoir
Alabama Blues
Vietnam Blues
J.B. Lenoir
The Mountain
1951-1954
William Moore
One Way Gal
Ragtime Blues Guitar
Furry Lewis
Going Away Blues
Party! [...]
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Bob Geddins’ West Coast Blues: A Pair Of Reissues
As winter sets in here in the Northeast we turn our attention to sunny California circa the late 1940’s and 1950’s and spotlight two fascinating collections of West Coast Blues: The Downhome Blues Session Vol. 5: Back In the Alley 1949-1954 on Ace and Bob Geddins’ Big Town Records Story on Acrobat. These anthologies spotlight [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in 1940's Blues, 1950's Blues, West Coast Blues by Jeff
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Chicago Defender Blues Advertisements: 1927 Flood
Back-Water Blues (MP3)
The 1927 flood inundated 27,000 square miles along the lower reaches of the Mississippi River populated by more than 900,000 people. For a period of months in the spring and summer of 1927, water covered the whole vast flood plain of the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries. It swallowed up nearly [...]
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 10/12/08: Mix Show
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Sara Martin
Teasing Brown Blues
Sylvester Weaver Vol. 1 1923-27
Sylvester Weaver
Penitentiary Bound Blues
Sylvester Weaver Vol. 2 1927
Victoria Spivey
Dirty T.B. Blues
I Can’t Be Satisfied Vol. 2
The Sugarman
Which Woman Do I Love
Texas Down Home Blues 1948-1952
John Lee Hooker
Road Trouble
Chicago Blues The Chance Era
Frankie Lee Sims
Walking Blues
Lucy Mae Blues
Kelly Pace & Convicts
Rock Island Line
Too Late Too Late 12
Charlie Patton
Spoonful
Screamin’ & [...]
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Living Country Blues USA Revisited - Part 2
In part one we discussed the some of the superb East Coast musicians Axel Küstner and Siegfried Christmann recorded while this time out we travel with the duo down to Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. It was Mississippi that occupied most of their time and form a good chunk of the recordings. Mississippi, particularly the Delta [...]
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Big Road Blues Show 10/5/08: Trix Is Walkin’ Some More - Trix Records & More
ARTIST
SONG
ALBUM
Baby Tate
See What You Done Done
Trix 45
Peg Leg Sam
Who’s That Left Here ‘ While Ago
Medicine Show Man
Peg Leg Sam
Ain’t But One Thing Give…
Medicine Show Man
Henry Johnson
Boogie Baby
The Union County Flash
Roy Dunn
Red Cross Store
Know’d Them All
Willie Trice
Goin’ To The Country
Blue And Rag’d
Frank Edwards
Chicken Raid
Done Some Travelin’
Honeyboy Edwards
Eyes Full Of Tears
I’ve Been Around
Homesick James
Walking The Backstreets
Got To [...]
