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Rhythm Highways
Mar 17, 2022 5:00 AM β 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.
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| Charlie Patton Down The Dirt Road Blues Founder Of The Delta Blues 1929-34 Yazoo Records 1995 CP was perhaps the 1st male blues "star", and certainly one of the blues most influential artists, esp within Mississippi. Sadly, Charlie's influence did not help extend his years, as he passed in his early 40s.
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| 5:02 AM |
| Memphis Minnie Outdoor Blues Nine Below Zero The Cold Winter Blues Document 2020 This is a Joe McCoy and MM composition, recorded in Feb 1932, most likely in Chicago.
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| 5:07 AM |
| Victoria Spivey The Alligator Pond Went Dry L N Blues Images Presents 24 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920's - 1940's Vol. 19 Blues Images 2021 Victoria began her recording career in St. Louis, before relocating to NYC. This song was recorded in St. Louis in 1927.
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| 5:10 AM |
| Tommy McClennan Des'e My Blues The Bluebird Recordings 1939-1942 RCA/BMG 1997 Recorded during a prolific session in Sept 1941, along with Cross Cut Saw, Deep Blue Sea Blues, and many others. Tommy McClennan is my go-to when i'm in the mood for deep gut-bucket blues.
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| 5:15 AM |
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| 5:19 AM |
| Brother Cecil Shaw Jesus, Lend Me A Helping Hand I Want To Know Acrobat Music Limited 2006 Brother Shaw recorded under/with several group names. This was captured with The Silverlight Singers of Houston TX sometime around 1951 for Imperial Records.
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| 5:21 AM |
| The Stars Of Faith He Rose In the Spirit: The Best of the Stars of Faith Nashboro Records 1995 Lead at the time of recording (let's call it 1975) by Frances Steadman, but all members took lead roles. Lead on He Rose was by pianist Eddie Brown - noted for his extraordinarily high ranging male tenor voice.
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| 5:25 AM |
| The Stars of Bethlehem Trying to Live Right (master) Above My Head VSOP Records 2008 Bringing the house down with the Stars of Bethlehem, with this album originally being released in 1960. This one featured Ollie Jones, who composed the tune as well. Ollie's brothers Willie and Roosevelt were also in the group.
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| 5:29 AM |
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| 5:33 AM |
| Little Charlie & The Nightcats Tomorrow Night Captured Live Alligator Records 1991 This one goes back a ways, with the song being a feature for Rick Estrin's harmonica work.
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| 5:37 AM |
| Little Mike and the Tornadoes Don't Speak About Love Flynn's Place Flying Fish Records 1995 Little Mike Markowitz and band were a mainstay on the NYC blues scene for quite some time, with LM being a native New Yorker with a love of classic Chicago electric blues.
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| 5:40 AM |
| Little Jonny And The Giants Standing At The Crossroads King Of Clubs Artist 2001 Little Jon Lawton on vocals and guitar, with good friend of St. Louis R.J. Mischo on harmonica. This is a very cool album, follks. Find it if you can.
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| 5:48 AM |
| LaVern Baker That's All I Need Soul On Fire: The Best of LaVern Baker Rhino 1991 LV was equally at home belting out rock n roll or caressing torch ballads, recording alongside Ruth Brown at Atlantic Records..
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| 5:50 AM |
| Screamin' Jay Hawkins Baptize Me In Wine Portait Of A Man A History Of Screamin' Jay Hawkins Demon Records 1995 It just doesn't right to relegate SJH's music to only the Halloween season, so here we are. This song was released on Apollo Records in 1954.
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| 5:53 AM |
| The Coasters What About Us The Very Best of The Coasters Rhino 1994 An ATCO single from 1959, and one of most favorite of Coasters' tunes.
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| 5:56 AM |
| The Bar-Kays House Shoes Soul Finger Rhino/Elektra 1992 The classic Bar-Kays album, originally released in 1967 on Volt Records.
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| 5:58 AM |
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| 6:02 AM |
| Peter Green A Fool No More Alone With The Blues Peter Green & The Original Fleetwood Mac Metro Select 2015 As tough a post-Fleetwood Mac performance from Peter Green as you're likely to find, from his late '70s album In The Skies.
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| 6:09 AM |
| Gary Moore Showbiz Blues Blues for Greeny Virgin Records 1995 Blues for St. Paddy's Day, with Irishman Gary Moore celebrating he Green, Peter Green, and Green is the color of the day.
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| 6:16 AM |
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| 6:17 AM |
| Reddog and Friends Don't Muscle That Shuffle N Booze, Blues and Southern Grooves Survival South Records 2021 Much of the album was recorded in Muscle Shoals, including this "named" instrumental". Ha!
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| 6:21 AM |
| Don Leady R&B Surfinβ N Cumbia Wipeout: Blues Explosion - EP Don Leady 2022 Leady's 2nd EP of blues cumbia kitchen sink experimentation, and I'm hearing a 3rd is already in the works. It's super fun stuff, folks, so don't be afraid to check it out - Bandcamp provides easy access.
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| 6:24 AM |
| John McVey Freddie King Goes Surfing Road House Stomp Live In 2007 DA Productions 2007 FK goes Surfing, and John McVey goes crazy! ha! If you've heard this in person as I have, you know there are no tricks - it's all John, his guitar and his hands. So great !
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| 6:31 AM |
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| 6:34 AM |
| Diunna Greenleaf Sunny Day Friends N I Ain't Playin' Little Village Foundation 2022 If you've seen the cover for this album, you KNOW DG ain't playin' - my gut tells me this will be the top blues release of 2022 - yes, it's that good.
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| 6:39 AM |
| Marty Abdullah You Done Me Wrong L St. Louis Blues Society Presents 17 In 17 St. Louis Blues Society 2018 St. Louis' own welterweight cham-peen of blues and soul, Mr. Marty Abdullah! I hope you're well, Marty. it's been much too long, sir.
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| 6:43 AM |
| Lowell Fulson, Jeff Dale & & The Blue Wave Band Blue Shadows N Lowell Fulson Live! Pro Sho Bidness 2021 Later period Lowell Fulson, recorded live at Club 88 in Los Angeles in Nov of 1983, Blue Shadows is a song by Lloyd Glenn.
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| 6:47 AM |
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| 6:50 AM |
| Baby Huey And The Babysitters Listen To Me The Baby Huey Story Sequel Records 1999 Baby Huey and his band were going to be incredibly influential... but Baby Huey (James Ramey) was taken from us all too soon.
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