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Rhythm Highways
Nov 17, 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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| Ben Levin Lump of Coal (feat. Lil Jimmy Reed) N Take Your Time VizzTone 2022 Cincinnati's wunderkind of blues piano with a new album, at least his 5th by my count. Lead vocals on this tune by Lil Jimmy Reed. I think we'll be hearing this one again around Christmas time.
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| 5:06 AM |
| The Fieldstones Dirt Road Memphis Blues Today! High Water/HMG 1997 Originally released in 1983, the Fieldstones were one of Memphis' premier blues outfits for years. Lead vocals on this one by Willie Ray Sanders, one of the group's 2 guitarists.
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| 5:13 AM |
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| 5:15 AM |
| The Blind Boys of Alabama Amazing Grace Spirit of the Century Omnivore Recordings 2001 Lead vox by Clarence Fountain and George Scott. David Lindley on electric guitars. This was the album that broke the band out in a major way, moving well outside of just gospel circles.
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| 5:20 AM |
| Aubrey Ghent Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus Arhoolie Records 1997 Vol 4 in Arhoolie's Sacred Steel series. This was recorded in-studio, in Gainesville, FL, in 1997. Aubrey is the father of Aubrey "AJ" Ghent, Jr., a well known musician in his own right. The Ghent family is essentially royalty within the S.S. world, being direct descendants of Henry Nelson and Willie Eason.
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| 5:30 AM |
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| 5:32 AM |
| Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy Careful Love Jimmy Liggins and His Drops of Joy Fantasy Records 1990 Recorded in 1947 for Specialty Records. Over the years, Jimmy Liggin's guitar sound would grow more raw and earthy, helping provide the baseline for what would become rock 'n' roll.
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| 5:34 AM |
| Yvonne Fair Say Yeah Yeah Birth Of Funk 1949-1962 Rhythm And Blues Records 2021 Released in 1963 on the Dade label. This 2 CD set, Birth of Funk, is thoroughly enjoyable and is well worth seeking out. It's a party in a jewel case, babies!
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| 5:37 AM |
| George Harmonica Smith Love Life Harmonica Ace Ace 1991 George Harmonica Smith, Little George Smith, and several other names (esp in the early days) applied to George Smith, one of the finest purveyors of the chromatic harp there's every been.
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| 5:40 AM |
| Bobby Bland If Love Ruled The World That Did It! The Duke Recordings (Volume 3) MCA 1996 Just think of the possibilities if LOVE truly ruled the World.... not some Star Trek space spores of love version, but the real thing... Originally a Duke single in 1969.
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| 5:43 AM |
| Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band Chitlin Con Carne Hoodoo Man Blues Delmark 1991 One of the first blues albums recorded and released as an album project, rather than as a collection of singles, back in 1965. Still one of the finest, too.
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| 5:50 AM |
| Rob Picazo Soothe My Soul N Soothe My Soul - Single Court Square Recordings 2022 More new music out of England from young man with an old soul, Rob Picazo. A single release from an upcoming full album - gonna be a good one, too!
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| 5:53 AM |
| Roland Johnson Someone To Love L Imagine This Blue Lotus 2016
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| 6:02 AM |
| Gary Primich The Briar Patch Company Man Black Top 1997 This just might be my favorite Primich album, and that's saying something as each has it's particular charms - they're all great, buy them all ! Briar Patch is one of Gary's own tunes.
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| 6:06 AM |
| Kurt Crandall Razz My Berries N Starts on the Stops Yesteryear Records 2022 Kurt was kind enough to do a real nice interview on R.H.'s a few months back. This might be the only tune from his new album I haven't shared with you from this tasty album.
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| 6:09 AM |
| R.J. Mischo I Came to Play He Came To Play CrossCut Records 2006 RJ always comes to play, as he's an amazing player and top-shelf showman. And, he's recording new music over in Finland with one of the best band's anywhere, the Tomi Leino Band. Whoo wee!!!
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| 6:15 AM |
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| 6:17 AM |
| Duane And Gregg Allman Morning Dew Delta Swamp Rock - Sounds From The South: At The Crossroads of Rock, Country & Soul Soul Jazz Records 2011 Recorded at TK Studios in the Miami area in 1968.
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| 6:21 AM |
| The Rock House All Stars Live With Me (feat. Seth James) N Let It Bleed Revisited - An Ovation from Nashville Qualified Records 2022 Kevin McKendree's Rock House studio band and friends, with a pretty great tribute album to the Stone's Let It Bleed release.
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| 6:24 AM |
| Area Code 615 Devil Weed And Me (Buffalo Herd) Delta Swamp Rock, Vol. 2: More Sounds from the South 1968-75: At the Crossroads of Rock, Country and Soul Soul Jazz Records 2012 Originally release in 1970 on Polydor Records, the band included many of the finest session cats in Nashville - area code 615, by the way.
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| 6:31 AM |
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| 6:34 AM |
| Wee Willie Walker & The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra What Is It We're Not Talking About? Not in My Lifetime Blue Dot Records 2021 Wee Willie Walker...that voice! That emotion! Song composed by Vitale, Batiste, Paule and Martin.
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| 6:38 AM |
| Diunna Greenleaf When I Call Your Name (feat. Alabama Mike) N I Ain't Playin' Little Village 2022 Still one of the strongest albums of the year, and 2022 has been ripe with amazing blues and roots albums.
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| 6:42 AM |
| Silent Partners Dancin' Shoes N Changing Times Little Village 2022 Blues is music of healing, music of truth, and music of the human condition - all of which The Silent Partner capture so well within their stunning new release.
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| 6:46 AM |
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| 6:49 AM |
| Roland Johnson The Dark End Of The Street L N The Dark End Of The Street - single Blue Lotus 2022
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| 6:52 AM |
| Robert Walter's 20th Congress Sacred Secret Giving Up The Ghost Magnatude Records 2003 Groovy music throughout this album, which I inherited from a 'free to a good home' box. I know, right? hard to believe! Ha!
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