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Rhythm Highways
Oct 27, 2022 5:00 AM โ 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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| Pete Gage St. James Infirmary Out of Hours Goofin' Records 1997 Long time frontman for England's Dr. Feelgood band with a solo piano and voice album, taking St. James where it needs to go...this is not a jaunty, happy lyric and shouldn't be performed as a 'party' tune. Well done, Pete Gage!
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| 5:02 AM |
| Paddy Milner Come As You Are The Curious Case of Paddy Milner Re-Opened Blues Boulevard Records 2012 Milner is a British pianist and singer-songwriter. I thought his interpretation of Nirvana's tune was really interesting.
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| 5:07 AM |
| The Silver King Band Voo-It Escape From The Planet Of The Bar Managers Revolution/Starbeat 1991 The SKB was a subversive Florida trio featuring Flo Mingo on vox and washboard; Barry Cuda on piano and vox; and Rock Bottom on harmonica and vox. The album title sort of says it all, right? Ha!
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| 5:11 AM |
| Elizabeth Cotten Mama, Nobody's Here but the Baby Shake Sugaree Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2004 This is the LONG version of this song on the CD, as there is one that's only 53 seconds long. That said, Libby Cotten was one of the finest Piedmont pickers there ever was. Truly outstanding!
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| 5:15 AM |
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| 5:19 AM |
| The Staple Singers Move Along Train For What It's Worth The Complete EPIC Recordings 1964-1968 Sony 2018 Move Along Train was the closing tune on the group's 1966 album 'Why', and was composed by Pops Staples. The Epic Records period is my favorite of the Staples (along w/ the Riverside). Somewhere between the older sounds of their Vee-Jay days but not as free-wheeling as the Stax years. Great stuff.
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| 5:21 AM |
| The Sensational Nightingales The Sweet Forever It's Gonna Rain Again Special Products 1998 From the Charles Johnson period of the 'Gales storied history. The song was originally found on their 1972 LP It's Gonna Rain Again.
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| 5:25 AM |
| The Gospel Hummingbirds Don't Let the Devil Ride Steppin' Out BLIND PIG RECORDS 1992 Halloween is coming right up, and this tune begins the run of songs on today's show loosely (or some more tightly) woven into the 'scary' factor.
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| 5:29 AM |
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| 5:32 AM |
| Howlin' Wolf Evil The Mojo Man Presents Black Halloween Bo Diddley Is A Zombie! Koko-Mojo 2019 Originally titled Evil Is Goin' On, with the final 3 words dropped years ago. Ha! Composed by Willie Dixon, released in 1954, and one of the scariest blues songs ever recorded, children. booooooo!
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| 5:34 AM |
| Tampa Red Witchin' Hour Blues Blues, Blues, Hoodoo, Halloween - Scary Blues & Jazz 1925-1961 Document Records 2014 Recorded in 1934 in Chicago for Bluebird Records. The legendary Tampa Red on vocals and guitar, Henry Scott on piano.
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| 5:39 AM |
| Otis Spann It Must Have Been The Devil N Hallowscream! 2 Horrors Of The Black Museum Atomicat 2022 Mississippi-bred, Muddy Waters band pianist, the amazing Otis Spann - what a voice!
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| 5:42 AM |
| Count Stephen Spooky N Hallowscream! 2 Horrors Of The Black Museum Atomicat 2022 Stephen Charles Alaimo from Omaha....that doesn't sound as scary as 'Count Stephen' - ahOOOOO!
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| 5:45 AM |
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| 5:47 AM |
| Bo Diddley Bo Meets The Monster Monsters, Vampires, Voodoos, and Spooks Jasmine Records 2017 Bo Diddley was never against making a novelty record if it had any chance of bringing in some coin. Checker Records, 1958.
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| 5:50 AM |
| Philly Joe Jones Sextet Blues for Dracula Blues for Dracula Fantasy Records 1991 A yearly 'treat' for your trick here on Rhythm Highways - Philly Joe Jones was noted for his perfect Bela Lugosi imitation...and for his ferocious jazz drum 'chops'. Chops...Dracula...choppers... get it?!
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| 6:00 AM |
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| 6:04 AM |
| Lynwood Slim featuring Junior Watson Take Me Where You Go Lost In America Atomic Theory 1997 Lynwood Slim was one of the great modern blues vocal stylists, a tasteful harp player, and a man you did not want to bet the rent money against in a pool hall.
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| 6:07 AM |
| Nico Wayne Toussaint Southern Wind Southern Wind Blowin' Dixiefrog 2007 Essentially the title track to this French harp master's tremendous album. Nico spent some time in America, around Miami, FL, I believe.
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| 6:11 AM |
| Christian Dozzler & The Blues Wave Night Life Is Killing Me Take It Easy Wolf Records International GmbH 1994 This one goes out to all the musicians who give so much so that we can enjoy a couple hours free from our worries. Austria's CD and the Blues Wave, although CD relocated to Dallas, TX years ago.
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| 6:14 AM |
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| 6:17 AM |
| Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat Chupacabra Bad Juju Lucky Seven Records 2001 Another perennial Halloween favorite on Rhythm Highways - before the blood sucking goat monster...the Chupacabra!
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| 6:21 AM |
| John Mooney Gone to Hell Gone to Hell BLIND PIG RECORDS 2000 Long a personal favorite of mine, I can't believe how long it's been since I've shared any of his music on RH. I hope this doesn't send me to the bowels of hell....
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| 6:24 AM |
| Jeremiah Johnson Quicksand L N Hi-Fi Drive By Ruf Records GmbH 2022 Can you think of a scarier way to 'go' than to slowly sink down down down into a pool of quicksand? Oh, babies! Check out this brand new album from St. Louis' own Jeremiah Johnson - I think it's his finest effort yet!
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| 6:30 AM |
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| 6:32 AM |
| The Champs Experiment in Terror Black Halloween Vol.2 - The Mojo Manโs Halloween Party Koko-Mojo 2020 I'm not sure if Ray Mancini imagined his song quite like this, but I be he appreciated it all the same. Challenge Records, 1962, by the same band that gave you 'Tequila'.
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| 6:34 AM |
| Bobby Bare Vampira Hallowscream! The Night Of Witches, Spooks, Ghouls, Murder, And Mayhem! Atomicat 2021 Jackpot Records, 1958.
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| 6:36 AM |
| The Rondels Satan's Theme Hallowscream! The Night Of Witches, Spooks, Ghouls, Murder, And Mayhem! Atomicat 2021 Amy Records, 1961.
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| 6:39 AM |
| The J. Geils Band No Anchovies, Please Love Stinks EMI-USA 1980 Can you even begin to fathom the horror of realizing your missing wife and been transformed via avant garde experiment into a 12 pound roller? Oh-My-God !
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| 6:41 AM |
| The Robins That Old Black Magic Apple Bobbing Mix Vol. 2 Document Records 2020 Whippet Records, Hollywood, CA, 1956.
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| 6:46 AM |
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| 6:47 AM |
| Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb And His Orchestra Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil Swingin' at the Sรฉance : Jazz for a Halloween's Night (Ghosty Selections from 1919-1953) Document Records 2020 Recorded in1938 in NYC for Decca Records. Chick Webb did NOT initially want Ella in his band...the other orchestra members has to threaten to leave en-masse if she wasn't hired. They knew she was that good. Chick didn't think she looked cute enough....which was unfathomable as Chick himself was diminutive and deformed by disease.
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| 6:52 AM |
| Tim Carman Trio Insomnia N Key Lime Color Red 2022 Brand new, very cool, organ jazz trio music lead by drummer Tim Carman, who is also the drummer for the earthy, raw blues trio GA-20.
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