http://sundayblues.org ...vintage blues radio & writing Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:04:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [TABLE=103] Show Notes: We have a wide ranging mix on today's program spanning the years 1925 to 1978. We feature many artists from the 1920's and 30's including several artists like Lonnie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Eugene Powell, Victoria Spivey and Robert Wilkins who bridge both the pre-war and post-war eras. We ... http://sundayblues.org/archives/443 [TABLE=102] Show Notes: Today’s show is the second installment of an ongoing series of programs built around a particular year. The bulk of the information for today’s show notes comes from the books Recording The Blues (reprinted along with two other titles in Yonder Come The Blues) by Robert M.W. Dixon and ... http://sundayblues.org/archives/428 [TABLE=101] Show Notes: The music on today's program spans a fascinating period, roughly the first decade of post-war blues, when the blues was evolving into what would be called R&B and a short hop later to rock and roll. Today's however is a throwback; this is rough and tumble down-home blues geared ... http://sundayblues.org/archives/420 [TABLE=100] Show Notes: Newspaper photo of Son House, and a July 14 Rochester Times-Union article about his comeback.   "I'm talking about the blues now, I ain't talkin' about no monkey junk" Today's title come from a term Son House used often as his biographer Dan Beaumont explains: "House had an amusing phrase he would use ... http://sundayblues.org/archives/390 [TABLE=99] Show Notes: During the 1960's Nick Perls amassed a vast collection of blues records from the 1920's and 1930's. In 1968 he began transferring some of these onto LP, initially naming his label Belzoni (after a town in Mississippi) but after five releases changed the name to Yazoo, also a town ... http://sundayblues.org/archives/377 [TABLE=98] Show Notes: Original Spivey LP 1968 P-Vine Reissue 2009     We cut a wide swath on today's program with selections spanning from 1926 through 1970 with several twin spins along the way. Among those double shots are a pair of terrific sides by the incomparable Otis Spann. These lesser know numbers, "Wonder Why" and ... http://sundayblues.org/archives/356 [TABLE=97] Show Notes: For today's show we continue with our ongoing series I call Forgotten Blues Heroes. For this installment we spotlight four great bluesmen who didn't get the opportunity to record until the 1960's and 1970's: Scott Dunbar, Bill Williams, Babe Stovall and Frank Hovington. As the blues historian Paul Oliver ... http://sundayblues.org/archives/320 [TABLE=96] Show Notes: In Houston, African Americans settled mostly in three segregated wards: the Third, Fourth, and Fifth. It was in the Third Ward where guitarist Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins accompanied his cousin Texas Alexander in the late 1920's, and where Hopkins returned by himself in the 1940's to play on Dowling Street. ... http://sundayblues.org/archives/316 [TABLE=94] Show Notes: Excello Records was started by Ernie Young owner of The Record Mart, in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1952. It was a subsidiary label of Nashboro records and was originally set to offer a catalog of Black Gospel music. Initially viewed as another outlet for his Gospel acts, Young soon ... http://sundayblues.org/archives/294 [TABLE=95] Show Notes: Today's wide ranging mix show spans the years 1927 through 1977. We have a whole slew of fine pre-war recordings on tap today including a set of fine female singers and a set of excellent piano players. We get things rolling today with "Going To Germany" sung in a ... http://sundayblues.org/archives/299