88.1 KDHX Saint Louis
KDHX is member supported community media, broadcasting at 88.1 FM in St. Louis, and offering a full spectrum of music and cultural programming.
Rhythm Highways
Mar 4, 2021 5:00 AM – 7:00 AM
Music
With East Side Slim
East Side Slim takes you cruising on many musical roads, with all leading back to the crossroad - the blues. Come on along for the ride on Rhythm Highways. You'll hear American music - music that swings, rolls and comes from the soul. Tune in to hear blues, RnB, gospel, swing, soul, rock 'n' roll, jazz and roadhouse, even the occasional honky tonk or western swing song. Rhythm Highways - it's an East Side groove.
| 5:00 AM |
| Erwin Helfer Winin' Boy (feat. Lou Marini & Bugs Cochran) Erwin Helfer Way (feat. Barrelhouse Chuck, Bugs Cochran, Lou Marini, John Brumbach & Skinny Williams) The Sirens Records 2013 According to blues historian Elijah Wald, this song was really meant to be titled Winding Ball, sort of like winding a ball of yarn, clearing what would otherwise have been a mess to deal with.
|
| 5:07 AM |
| Frank Muschalle Trio Bottle Rocket The Frank Muschalle Trio featuring Rusty Zinn Styx 2002 This Austrian pianist gave us a rollicking good time piano album here, with American Rusty Zinn guesting on guitar. Truly folks, this is a tremendous album, one that never moves out of my personal play rotation.
|
| 5:14 AM |
Setbreak:
Setbreak
| |
| 5:16 AM |
| The Harlem Gospel Travelers God's Gonna Move His Hand N Nothing But His Love/God's Gonna Move His Hand - single Colemine 2021 What's St. Louis' favorite time? Fahr Fahrty-Fahr, of course. Sorry folks, you have to be from St Louis to "get it". However, you can be from anywhere to GET this terrific new song from the Harlem Gospel Travelers.
|
| 5:21 AM |
| The East St. Louis Gospelettes Watch Me L Watch Me Checker Records 1973 EStL's own, featuring the amazing lead vocals of Frances Moore, who also composed this song.
|
| 5:24 AM |
| Isaac Douglas & The Douglas Singers I've Got A New Born Soul Lord Have Mercy Minit/Liberty 1963 Composed by the Rev James Cleveland. At the time of this recording (1963-ish) The Douglas Singers had only been together as a group for about 1 year.
|
| 5:26 AM |
| The Soul Stirrers Lord, I Thank You Strength, Power And Love Jewel Records 1973 Composed by Dillard Crume. By this time, the Soul Stirrers had become almost the Crume family band, and had moved from their early "pretty" sound to a more forceful, hard southern style - which I dearly love.
|
| 5:30 AM |
Setbreak:
Setbreak
| |
| 5:32 AM |
| Raoul & The Big Time Someday (feat. Franck Goldwasser) Hollywood Blvd Independent 2014 Canadian Raoul Banjera with his core band on this old BBB number, featuring French/American Franck Goldwasser on guitar. If you love harmonica-driven music, this is an album for you.
|
| 5:34 AM |
| Netto Rockfeller Half Past Midnight (feat. John Blues Boyd) The Latin American Mojo Style of Netto Rockfeller Blue Crawfish Records 2018 Brazilian Rockfeller recorded this "dream" project at Greaseland, with the Greaseland folks - Kid Andersen, June Core, Jim Pugh, and more, to include guest vocalist John Blues Boyd. Whitney Shay sings lead vocals on one tune as well.
|
| 5:40 AM |
| James Harman Come on and Dance with Me fineprint Electro-Fi Records 2018 We continue to live up James Harman via the spirit of his music. Come and Dance with Me is one of the few songs I haven't already shared from James' exceptional album "fineprint".
|
| 5:45 AM |
Setbreak:
Setbreak
| |
| 5:47 AM |
| Joe Jones Adam Bit the Apple Ballin' In N'awlins Volume 1 Original 1951-1959 Recordings Mela'dee 2016 Loads of good stuff on this compilation, and most of it of the under the radar variety - which truly appeals to Rhythm Highways' show format.
|
| 5:50 AM |
| Earl King You Can Fly High N Southern Bred 13 - Louisiana & New Orleans R&B Rockers Koko-Mojo Records 2021 Originally released on the Ace label of Jackson, Mississippi in 1957, and sounding for all intents and purposes like Guitar Slim - who Earl King often impersonated for on road gigs when GS was, er, uh, incapacitated.
|
| 5:52 AM |
| Varetta Dillard Good Gravy Baby N The "Mojo" Man Presents: Koko-Mojo Diner Volume 1 Soul Food Koko-Mojo Records 2021 Recorded for the small Triumph Records label in 1958-ish. Composed by Joyce/Joy/J Kennedy.
|
| 5:55 AM |
| Nat Eckbert With The Bill Parker Band Ain't Giving up Nothing The Goldband Blues Collection, Part 3 Collectables 1994 I love this song! Even with it's abysmal stereo separation. Ha! I LOVE THIS SONG!
|
| 5:58 AM |
| Katie Webster and Ashton Savoy Juke Joint The Goldband Blues Collection, Part 1 Collectables 1994
|
| 6:00 AM |
Setbreak:
Setbreak
| |
| 6:02 AM |
| Uncle Albert Ain't That A... L N Slip in Time Uncle Albert 2021 How about this, people? A new album from St. Louis' own Uncle Albert band, w/ Keith Robinson taking a vocal turn on this song. It's always great news to see a new album from these folks, especially one as good as this is.
|
| 6:06 AM |
| Louis "Gearshifter" Youngblood Seven Sisters Louis "Gearshifter" Youngblood Louis "Gearshifter" Youngblood 2017 If you like your blues raw and unvarnished, then Gearshifter Youngblood has something for you. Yeah, earthy goodness right here.
|
| 6:14 AM |
Setbreak:
Setbreak
| |
| 6:16 AM |
| Hold On Tight Forever Till the Curtain Falls Part Records 2016 New music to me, and I don't remember ordering it - ha! It came along with some CDs I ordered from Europe and was a very pleasant surprise. The band is from Germany, I believe.
|
| 6:19 AM |
| Ghalia Volt Espìritu Papàgo (feat. Dean Zucchero) N One Woman Band Ruf Records GmbH 2021 Ghalia Vautier has been busy during the Covid-times, composing much of this album while on a train journey across America. Still very young, Ghalia's really coming into her own as a complete artist and is going to be someone to watch for years to come!
|
| 6:24 AM |
| Robbie Fulks What the Lord Hath Wrought (Any Fool Can Knock Down) South Mouth Bloodshot Records 1997 Robbie's "Morells" album, recorded with Lou Whitney and crew in Springfield, MO. It's so good.
|
| 6:27 AM |
| The Kokomo Kings Girls I've Never Kissed Artificial Natural Grime Tone Records 2013 One for the Kokoheads out there - and that group includes me, fo' sho'!
|
| 6:32 AM |
Setbreak:
Setbreak
| |
| 6:33 AM |
| Little G Weevil And His Band Suger Hip Ya Ya N Play On Self-Released 2020 Little G in full band mode, featuring his Hungarian band, special guests galore, and several fine female singers, including Dionne Bennett - heard on "Ya Ya".
|
| 6:36 AM |
| Skylar Rogers Failure L N Firebreather Skylar Rogers 2021 A very personal album from Skylar Rogers in terms of lyrical content. There some very fiery rock on here, but I really favor the deep bluesy soul of tracks like this one - especially with the voice she possesses. Paul Niehaus co-wrote this cut, as well as several others from the album.
|
| 6:41 AM |
| Kingdom Brothers Reap What You Sow L St. Louis Blues Society Presents 15 in 15 St. Louis Blues Society 2016 Composed by Chris Shepherd, who you heard singing as well. The KB's are currently working on a brand new album - I for one am very excited to hear/see the completed project!
|
| 6:47 AM |
Setbreak:
Setbreak
| |
| 6:48 AM |
| Annie Mack Get on the Train N Testify - EP Annie Mack 2021 I miscued this song last week, so now you finally get to hear it - unless you've taken my advice to purchase the album yourself. In that case, you already know how great this is!
|
| 6:53 AM |
| Thee Sacred Souls Will I See You Again? N Will I See You Again? - Single Penrose Records 2021 This is a great trio out of San Diego. The new single release also includes "It's Our Love". Penrose Records is the imprint of Daptone's Bosco Mann, started after he relocated to the Left Coast.
|