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Views of the Blues
Jan 18, 2021 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Blues
With Sunnyland Steve
Great blues music in its historical & cultural context.
Songs appropriate to today, Martin Luther King Jr. Day; and New Orleans area blues by request from Michael G. in Santa Maria.
Next week: posthumous birthday tributes to Etta James and Sleepy John Estes...and your requests!
Send requests and comments to (805) 253-3091 or info@sbblues.org
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| Mavis Staples We Shall Not Be Moved We'll Never Turn Back Anti/Epitaph USA 2007 CD Formerly a member of the family band The Staples Singers, Mavis, now 81 years old, is one of today's best soul and blues singers; she is a member of the Rock and Blues Halls of Fame; she is a long-time civil rights activist
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| 1:05 PM |
| Jeremiah Johnson Unemployed Highly Annoyed Unemployed Highly Annoyed Ruf Records 2020 CD 48 year old guitarist and singer Johnson is based in St. Louis and plays blues rock and Southern rock
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| 1:12 PM |
| Sister Rosetta Tharpe Trouble in Mind The Gospel of the Blues MCA Records USA 2003 CD Recorded in 1941 by Tharpe, who was a fine guitarist and singer and a progenitor of rock-and-roll; she was born in AR in 1915 as Rosetta Nubin, and was a popular gospel performer in the 1930s and 1940s; her guitar style influenced Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Keith Richards
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| 1:14 PM |
| Eric Bibb This Land Is Your Land Migration Blues Stony Plain 2017 CD Son of folk singer Leon Bibb, Eric is one of today's best acoustic bluesmen; he now lives in Sweden
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| 1:20 PM |
| Guy Davis Ramblin' All Over The Adventures of Fishy Waters: in Bed with the Blues Smokeydoke Records 2012 CD An actor as well as distinguished acoustic bluesman, Davis is the son of actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis; in 2017 he spent two days in Santa Barbara teaching students as part of the Blues for Youth program of the S.B. Blues Society
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| 1:25 PM |
| Tommy Castro & The Painkillers Common Ground Method To My Madness Alligator Records 2015 CD Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader Castro is one of today's most popular blues performers; he and his band put on a terrific show in spring 2019 for the Santa Barbara Blues Society
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| 1:29 PM |
| Chris Thomas King I Shall Be Released R N Angola 21st Century Blues Records 2020 MP3 Son of bluesman Tabby Thomas, King is based in Louisiana and is also an actor
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| 1:33 PM |
| Larry Garner Ms. Boss R Louisiana Swamp Stomp Honeybee 2010 CD 68 year old singer and guitarist Garner was born in Baton Rouge, LA, and lives in New Orleans; he won the 1988 International Blues Challenge
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| 1:40 PM |
| Otis Taylor Ten Million Slaves Recapturing the Banjo Telarc Records 2008 CD Taylor is a songwriter and singer from Colorado who plays guitar and banjo; background vocal by his daughter Cassie; another of today's many songs appropriate to Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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| 1:45 PM |
| Skylar Rogers Movin On N Firebreather 2021 MP3 A Chicago native, Rogers cites Tina Turner, Etta James, and Koko Taylor as major influences; this is her first full album
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| 1:48 PM |
| Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions Columbia Japan 2006 CD "The Boss" is a long-time political activist
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| 1:53 PM |
| Selwyn Birchwood Living In a Burning House N Living In a Burning House Alligator Records 2021 MP3 Based in Florida, singer/guitarist Birchwood played at the Ojai Bowlful of Blues festival in Sept. 2018; Birchwood and his band won the 2013 International Blues Challenge
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| 1:59 PM |
| John Lee Hooker John Henry Visions of the Blues V/A Oxford American US 2016 CD Born in MS in 1912 or 1917, Hooker was one of the greatest bluesmen; he began recording in 1948 in Detroit, where he lived for many years; he died in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2001; he had an idiosyncratic guitar style, very difficult to emulate or accompany
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| 2:02 PM |
| Carol Fran I Need To Be Be'd With R Louisiana Swamp Stomp V/A Honeybee Entertainment 2010 CD Recording date not noted; now 87 years old, Fran often recorded with her husband Clarence Hollimon
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| 2:06 PM |
| John Blues Boyd What My Eyes Have Seen What My Eyes Have Seen Gulf Coast Records 2020 CD Boyd was born in MS in 1945 and was run out of town when 18 years old for participating in a civil rights march; he has spent most of his subsequent life in CA; this album is songs and stories about his life and it's superb
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| 2:10 PM |
| Cyril Neville Don't Move My Mountain Brand New Blues M.C. Records 2009 CD Formerly a member of The Meters and the Neville Brothers band (he is the youngest sibling, now 72), Neville has recorded with Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Tab Benoit, Willie Nelson, and Royal Southern Brotherhood
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| 2:14 PM |
| Bukka White Glory Bound Train R Big Daddy Shout! Factory 2004 CD Recorded in 1973 by Booker T. Washington White, a cousin of B.B. King and one of the best 20th. century acoustic bluesmen; born in 1906, he died in 1977; he is a member of the Blues Hall of Fame; he played fiddle as well as guitar
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| 2:19 PM |
| Sir Rod & the Blues Doctors Freedom for My People N Come Together Modern Blues Harmonica 2020 CD Band is led by singer Roderick Patterson and harmonica player Adam Gussow; guitar by Alan Gross and bass by Jerry Jemmott
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| 2:24 PM |
| Otis Taylor Black's Mandolin Boogie Definition of a Circle Telarc Records 2006 CD Born in Denver in 1948, Taylor's first instrument was the banjo; after almost two decades away from the music business, he resumed recording in the late 1990s
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| 2:28 PM |
| Bruce Springsteen Eyes on the Prize We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions Columbia Rcrds USA 2006 CD The album is a tribute folk musician and political activist Pete Seeger
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| 2:33 PM |
| Mavis Staples We'll Never Turn Back We'll Never Turn Back Anti/Epitaph USA 2007 CD Mavis has revealed that years ago Bob Dylan proposed marriage to her, and she refused
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| 2:39 PM |
| Chris Thomas King Black Lives Matter Reprise R N Angola 21st Century Blues Records 2020 MP3 Chris's father Ernest "Tabby" Thomas, who was born in 1929 and died in 2014, was a pianist, singer guitarist, and songwriter who played "swamp blues"
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| 2:43 PM |
| Sonny Landreth Swamp Stomp R Louisiana Swamp Stomp V/A Honeybee Entertainment 2010 CD 69 year old Louisiana bluesman Clide Landreth is considered one of the best living slide guitarists
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| 2:46 PM |
| Gaye Adegbalola Nothing's Changed The Griot Hot Toddy Music / VizzTone 2018 CD Former member of the now defunct Saffire: The Uppity Blueswomen, Gaye is also an award-winning (retired) schoolteacher
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| 2:51 PM |
| Ruthie Foster Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air) Ruthie Foster (Live at Antone's) V/A Blue Corn Music 2011 CD Texas blueswoman and multiple award winner Foster is a very good acoustic guitarist and has a sublime voice; electric guitar by Hadden Sayers
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| 2:58 PM |
| Sir Rod & the Blues Doctors Come Together Come Together Modern Blues Harmonica 2020 CD Harmonica player Adam Gussow had a long duet partnership with guitarist Sterling Magee, who performed as "Satan"; Magee died in 2020; Gussow is a professor of English and Southern Studies at the Univ. of Mississippi
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| 3:03 PM |
| Vasti Jackson Ninety-Nine Years Blues The Soul of Jimmie Rodgers Vjm Records 2016 CD MS bluesman Jackson has been guitarist and arranger for other blues performers, including the late pianist Katie Webster
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| 3:06 PM |
| Ida Cox Last Mile Blues Roots of the Blues, Volume 1 Direct Source 2001 CD Though little remembered, Cox was one of the best of the many women blues and jazz singers of the 1920s; she was born in GA in 1888, 1894, or 1896, and died in 1967
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| 3:10 PM |
| Clifton Chenier Bon Ton Roulet R The Best of Clifton Chenier: The King of Zydeco & Louisiana Blues V/A Arhoolie Records USA 2003 CD Louisiana accordionist and singer Chenier (1925-1987) is considered by many to be the greatest Zydeco performer ever; in Aug. 1983 he and his band played a fantastic show for the Santa Barbara Blues Society at La Casa de la Raza
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| 3:13 PM |
| Mavis Staples Eyes on the Prize We'll Never Turn Back Anti/Epitaph 2007 CD For over a decade the guitarist in her band has been Rick Holmstrom, formerly with Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers
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| 3:19 PM |
| Gaye Adegbalola Kaepernicked The Griot Hot Toddy Music / VizzTone 2018 CD Song refers to pro football quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has been denied a position with any team after taking a knee to protest systemic racism
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| 3:22 PM |
| Alabama Mike Mississippi Upset the Status Quo Jukehouse Records 2016 CD Mike Benjamin is now based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has released several of his own albums and appeared on a number of others
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| 3:28 PM |
| Eric Bibb Masters of War Migration Blues Stony Plain 2017 CD Bibb has won two Blues Music Awards as Acoustic Artist of the Year and one for Acoustic Album of the Year
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| 3:31 PM |
| Michael Burks Feel Like Going Home Show of Strength Alligator Records USA, www.alligator.com 2012 CD Born in 1957 in Milwaukee to a musical family, Burks was a very good singer and incandescent guitarist who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2012 while returning from a European tour; sadly, he never played in Santa Barbara
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| 3:39 PM |
| Marquise Knox One More Reason to Have the Blues (Live) Black and Blue (Live) Marquise Knox Entertainment 2017 CD Mentored by Henry Townsend and Michael Burks, St. Louis bluesman Knox is in his late 20s and released his first album at age 18
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| 3:46 PM |
| Henry Gray Times Are Getting Hard R Louisiana Swamp Stomp V/A Honeybee Entertainment 2010 CD Pianist Gray, who died in 2020 at age 95, was pianist for many years in Howlin' Wolf's band
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| 3:49 PM |
| R.L. Burnside Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down Fat Possum USA 2000 CD Burnside (1926-2005) was an exemplar of Mississippi hill country blues, characterized by steady rhythm and repetitive riffs with little melody; others of the genre included Junior Kimbrough, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Jessie Mae Hemphill
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| 3:53 PM |
| Mavis Staples Freedom Highway Live: Hope at the Hideout Anti/Epitaph 2008 CD The Staples Singers, very popular in the 1960s and 1970s, were led by Mavis's father Roebuck "Pops" Staples, an excellent guitarist, and three of her siblings
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