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Rhythm Highways
Sep 1, 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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| Joey DeFrancesco I'm Confessin' All or Nothing at All Big Mo 1998 As many of you know, we lost Joey D one week ago, passing away at age 51. Today's program will open and close with the music of Joey D, who was frequent and beloved performer on St. Louis stages, esp his week-long residencies at Jazz at the Bistro. This album was recorded in 1996, placing Joey D around a spritely 25 years of age.
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| 5:07 AM |
| Spencer Bohren Lovesick Blues The Blues According To Hank Williams Valve 2010 I missed this tribute to Hank from Spencer all these years, not sure how, as I'm a huge fan of Spencer Bohren. Gone, but never forgotten. Ol' Hank had a way with words, didn't he?
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| 5:11 AM |
| Brian Curran Statesboro Blues Made Myself Lonesome Wildstone Audio 2012 Statesboro Blues, based upon Blind Willie McTell's original rather than the various rocked up versions over the years. St. Louis' own, Mr. Brian Curran, right here on radio KDHX.
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| 5:15 AM |
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| 5:18 AM |
| Joe Louis Walker In God's Hands Great Guitars Verve 1997 Today's guest of honor on Rhythm Highways, Joe Louis Walker, from who you will hear Part 1 of an amazing interview he gave me next week, scheduled at the top of the 6am hour. Song composed by JLW, with Taj Mahal helping out. JLW spent much of the 1970s on the gospel circuit...the man knows!
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| 5:23 AM |
| The Harmonizing Four Now The Day Is Over That Old Time Religion/Spirituals That Will Live Forever Rhino/Collectables 2001 How can you go wrong with 2 albums from the HF on 1 CD? Answer: you can't go wrong at all.
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| 5:25 AM |
| The Gospel Songbirds Traveling Pilgrim Ring Them Golden Bells: The Best of the Gospel Songbirds Nashboro 1995 While not as well remembered as many golden era gospel outfits, their talent wasn't the reason - Chicago's GS's were just tremendous!
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| 5:27 AM |
| The Sensational Barnes Brothers Here Am I Nobody's Fault but My Own Bible & Tire Recording Co. 2019 Current old-school gospel sounds recorded in Memphis by the Barnes clan, featuring 3 Barnes' as well as a smokin' band that included Jimbo Mathus.
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| 5:30 AM |
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| 5:34 AM |
| Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne Somebody Tell That Woman N Blues From Chicago To Paris Stony Plain Records 2022 It's so great to hear KBBW playing old school piano like this - he's a master, folks. The album is a tribute to the music of 2 giants: Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon.
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| 5:38 AM |
| Julian Fauth If Your Mind Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right Electro-Fi Records 2012 As long time fans of this show know, I love the music of Canadian artist Julian Fauth. Most definitely not the same old same old, neither in themes nor musically. Great stuff!
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| 5:42 AM |
| Fleetwood Mac A Fool No More Live at the BBC Castle 1995 No British musician sang and played the blues as deeply as Peter Green did, with perhaps the exception of JoAnn Kelly and Duster Bennett, but they never became anywhere as well know as PG. Long live the music of Greeny - I know it touches me deeply.
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| 5:47 AM |
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| 5:49 AM |
| Ebony Rhythm Band Soul Heart Transplant Lamp Records - It Glowed Like the Sun: The Story of Naptown's Motown 1969-1972 Now-Again Records 2019 Lamp Records was a smallish label out of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Naptown refers to the black entertainment area of the city. This CD is a 4 cd set, 2 cds given to singles from various artists, and 1 disc each given to the Vanguards (secular) and the Mighty Indiana Travelers (sacred).
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| 5:51 AM |
| Wee Willie Walker Read Between the Lines If Nothing Ever Changes Little Village Foundation 2015 THEE Wee Willie Walker, with a smokin' take of the song by Willie Clarke and Clarence Reid. True story? You be the judge, loyal listeners.
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| 5:55 AM |
| Jim Viner's Incredible B3 Band Cutlass Supreme Comango! Jim Viner's Incredible B3 Band 2015 This is a short, but entirely groovy, instrumental B-3 based album. Awesomeness abounds.
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| 5:57 AM |
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| 6:02 AM |
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| 6:17 AM |
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| 6:18 AM |
| Joe Louis Walker Preacher and the President Preacher and the President Verve 1998 How about that interview, folks? And the 2nd half next week gets even better! PandP composed by JLW. This album was recorded in Muscle Shoals at Muscle Shoals Sound, produced by Steve Cropper. It's a good 'un, babies.
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| 6:22 AM |
| James Armstrong Old Man in the Morning (Young Man at Night) Blues Been Good to Me Catfood Records 2017 Ha! Man, I sure feel that old in the morning thing sometimes... but it took James Armstrong to put it into a song this cool and clever. Based out of Springfield, IL, catch him nearby St. Louis when you can.
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| 6:25 AM |
| Byther Smith I'm In A Hole I'm a Mad Man Bullseye Blues 1993 Byther Smith was one of the last of the hard, deep bluesman. Sounds to me like he was a man not to be trifled with. Ha!
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| 6:29 AM |
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| 6:32 AM |
| Anthony Big A Sherrod with The Cornlickers Cold Feeling N Right on Time Nola Blue/Anthony Sherrod 2022 Originally released in 2016. This is a tough, wonderful, earthy album from Mississippi's Big A Sherrod. I missed it the first time, but it has fairly small distribution 1st time around. Seek this one out; you will not be disappointed.
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| 6:40 AM |
| The Fieldstones Saddle Up My Pony Memphis Blues Today! High Water/HMG 1997 Memphis goodness from the 1980s, re-released on CD in 1997. This was so much the real deal that some folks couldn't listen to it...made 'em uneasy...in all the right places. Ha! Ladies and gentlemen...The Fieldstones!
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| 6:46 AM |
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| 6:49 AM |
| Thee Sacred Souls Sorrow for Tomorrow N Thee Sacred Souls Penrose / Daptone Records 2022 One of my favorite young, current soul band with their first full album release after many singles. If you dig low rider soul, and why wouldn't you dig low rider soul, than the sounds of this San Diego band will set well with you.
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| 6:51 AM |
| Joey DeFrancesco Midnight Special (feat. Jimmy Smith) Legacy (feat. Jimmy Smith) Concord Jazz 2005 In honor of Joey D, who passed away last Thursday evening, 25 Aug, at only 51 years young. Rest well, Joey, and much peace to your family, friends and fans. Be good to each other, babies, be good to each other.
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