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Rhythm Highways
Feb 24, 2022 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, R&B, 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.
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| Casey Bill Weldon Say Midnight Blues Last We Gonna Move (To The Outskirts Of Town) Wolf 2021 The Hawai'ian-blues king, of sort, as CBW loved the sound of the Hawai'ian slide players. Recorded in Aurora, IL in 1938.
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| 5:05 AM |
| Memphis Minnie You Can't Give It Away N Blues Images Presents 24 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920's - 1940's Vol. 19 Blues Images 2021 Recorded in Chicago by the always rough and tumble Memphis Minnie, not shy in regards to her subject matter at all.
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| 5:08 AM |
| Furry Lewis John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) Searching For Secret Heroes Document 2020 Furry on guitar and vocal, recorded in the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN, Sept 1929.
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| 5:11 AM |
| Furry Lewis John Henry (Instrumental) Searching For Secret Heroes Document 2020 Recorded live in Memphis in 1962, part of the Sam Charters collection.
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| 5:15 AM |
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| 5:17 AM |
| Mavis Staples & Lucky Peterson A Rusty Old Halo Spirituals & Gospel: Dedicated to Mahalia Jackson Verve 1996 I know I keep telling you how much I love this album, and nothing has changed in that regard at all. If you really want to hear Mavis dig in and sing, this is the place! Lucky shines as well on both piano and organ.
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| 5:20 AM |
| The Rance Allen Group Hot Line to Jesus The Best of the Rance Allen Group Stax 1988 Song composed by Mack Rice. This is a cool 12 song comp of the RAG's output for various gospel subsidiary labels of Stax. Rance, Steve and Tom Allen - the Rance Allen Group.
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| 5:25 AM |
| The Sons of the Soul Revivers Joy Live Rancho Nicasio Little Village Foundation 2017 The brothers Morgan, along with their tough band recorded where gospel records best - live in front of real people digging the sound and the word.
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| 5:31 AM |
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| 5:33 AM |
| Eric Bibb World War Blues Home to Me EarthBeat 2000 Let's hope and pray the title of this one isn't prophetic... Album released in Europe in 1999 and the US and rest of World in 2000 Composed by EB, "this biblical blues reminds him of songs J.B. Lenoir sang - highly topical". Sadly, still all too topical today.
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| 5:37 AM |
| Corey Harris By and By N The Insurrection Blues M.C. Records 2021 A traditional tune rendered beautifully by Corey Harris, from his brand new album.
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| 5:41 AM |
| Buffalo Nichols Back on Top N Buffalo Nichols Fat Possum 2021 Carl (Buffalo) Nichols is gaining much attention with his new album...and with a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Strong statements made, some that will upset some white blue fans and artists, but much truth spoken by Mr. Nichols - although I don't totally agree with all his points. That said, the subjects he raised are much broader and much deeper than a short article in RS can completely convey.
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| 5:46 AM |
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| 5:49 AM |
| Prince La La She Put The Hurt On Me Birth Of Funk 1949-1962 Rhythm And Blues Records 2021 AFO Records out of New Orleans, 1961. All for One Records, better known as AFO, was an African American musician-owned record label. AFO was founded in New Orleans in 1961 by Harold Battiste, who was an established composer, arranger, and performer. AFO was established as a musicians' collective.
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| 5:51 AM |
| Smiley Lewis She's Got Me (Hook, Line & Sinker) The Best Of Smiley Lewis I Hear You Knocking EMI Records 1992 Composed by Dave Bartholomew, recorded in 1956 for Imperial Records.
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| 5:56 AM |
| Professor Longhair Mardi Gras In New Orleans New Orleans Piano Rhino Atlantic 1989 Songs on this album were recorded in 1949 and 1953, MGinNO in 1949, for Atlantic Records.
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| 5:59 AM |
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| 6:02 AM |
| Bob Corritore Mean Old Frisco (feat. T-Model Ford) L N Bob Corritore & Friends: Down Home Blues Revue VizzTone/SWMAF 2022 Brand new from the seemingly bottomless vaults of Phoenix recordman Bob Corritore - this one featuring T-Model Ford.
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| 6:06 AM |
| Bob Stroger & The Headcutters Stranded in St. Louis (feat. Luciano Leães & The Big Chiefs) N That's My Name (feat. Luciano Leães & The Big Chiefs) Delmark 2022 A wonderful Junior Parker tune, covered beautifully by Mr. Bob Stroger and band. This album also features friend of Rhythm Highways Luciano Leaes on piano and Hammond organ.
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| 6:11 AM |
| Johnny Dyer featuring Rick Holmstrom Listen Up Listen Up Black Top 1994 Deep blues with funky-groove guitar from Rick Holmstrom. This duo record a pair of great albums for the Black Top label in the mid-90s.
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| 6:15 AM |
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| 6:17 AM |
| Mike Bloomfield Papa-Mama-Rompah-Stompah N The Gospel Truth Sunset Blvd Records 2021 A 2 cd set, set 1 collecting highlights from MB's Takoma albums of the late '70s and disc 2 gathering songs from a single 1971 live concert.
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| 6:21 AM |
| Scrapomatic Ain't Got The Smile with Mike Mattison & Paul Olsen N Landslide Records 40th Anniversary Landslide 2021 This new compilation reminds me of how cool a label Landslide has been over the years. Disc 1 concentrates on bluesy/rootsy music, while disc 2 focuses a bit more on the jammy aspects of the label, but also some of the great roots artists, too.
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| 6:24 AM |
| Sarah Borges Wouldn't Know You (feat. Eric Ambel & Keith Voegele) N Together Alone (feat. Eric Ambel) Blue Corn Music 2022 Brand spankin' new music from Sarah Borges and crew, to include Roscoe Ambel. Sarah, already a formidable artist, just keeps getting better and better - amazing. And I'm hearing she might be bringing this show to St. Louis in June - stay tuned!
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| 6:27 AM |
| Patrick Sweany Oh! Temptation That Old Southern Drag Nine Mile Records 2011 Going back a decade plus in Sweeny's catalog - but you can't go wrong with any albums in PS's catalog. All great stuff !
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| 6:31 AM |
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| 6:33 AM |
| Matt "Guitar" Murphy Strut Your Stuff The Blues Don't Bother Me Roesch Records 1996 Matt released a couple of really good albums on the small Roesch Records label in the '90s. Very few guitarists, regardless of genre, played guitar with more taste and tone than did Matt "Guitar" Murphy.
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| 6:36 AM |
| Big Llou Johnson Shucky Ducky (Quack Quack) N Bigman Goldenvoice Audio 2021 Shucky Ducky Quack Quack babies.... how about that voice !? So cool they needed to put TWO L's in his name!
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| 6:41 AM |
| Iceman Robinson I Have a Need I've Never Been Loved Fedora Records 2001 Riler "Iceman" Robinson, recorded in Chicago in 2000 by Chris Millar and his Fedora crew, who specialized on documenting deserving, under-recognized regional artists - including several from St. Louis.
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| 6:47 AM |
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| 6:49 AM |
| Mavis Staples Will the Circle Be Unbroken Have a Little Faith Alligator Records 2004 Well, the Mavis from early in the show got me in the mind of some Mavis near the end of the show - and that's alright with me, hopefully with you, too.
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| 6:52 AM |
| Tia Carroll Ain't Nobody Worryin' N You Gotta Have It Little Village 2021 This is song by Anthony Hamilton, Raphael Saadiq and Bobby Ozuna. Tia Carroll has one of 2021's finest bluesy soul albums right here, please check it out.
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