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Blues Off the Record

Sep 12, 2020 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Sonny Boy Williamson III

Blues, Off the Record is a show dedicated to exploring the history of American music and spinning the best blues tracks, focusing on classic recordings from the 1920s through the 1960s. It airs Saturdays from noon to 3pm EST on WPRB Princeton 103.3fm / wprb.com.

Today's show features more early blues music drawn from my reading of Escaping the Delta, plus a set of more recent electric blues to close things out. Enjoy!

12:00 PM		Mississippi Jook Band Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Blind Roosevelt Graves (1929–1936)
12:03 PM		Walter Rhodes Leaving Home Blues Memphis Blues 1927-1938
12:06 PM		Pearl Dickson Little Rock Blues Memphis Masters: Early American Blues Classics (1927-34) Yazoo 2006
12:08 PM		Sylvester Weaver Devil Blues Sylvester Weaver Vol. 2 (1927) Document Records 1992
12:12 PM		Sylvester Weaver with Helen Humes Alligator Blues Sylvester Weaver Vol. 2 (1927)
12:15 PM		Georgia White The Stuff Is Here Georgia White Vol. 3 1937-1939 Document Records 1994
12:20 PM		Clara Smith Sobbin' Sister Blues Clara Smith Vol. 5 (1927-1929) Document Records 1995
12:21 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:23 PM		Rosa Henderson Barrel House Blues Really the Blues?: A Blues History
12:26 PM		Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries Prisoners Tangle Eye Blues Negro Prison Blues and Songs Legacy International 1990
12:29 PM		Sippie Wallace Section Gang Blues Sippie Wallace Vol. 1
12:31 PM		Texas Alexander Section Gang Blues Rough Guide to the Roots of the Blues World Music Network 2020
12:35 PM		Big Bill Broonzy New Shake 'em On Down Vol. 1: The Pre-War Years SPV 2007
12:38 PM		Scrapper Blackwell Blues Before Sunrise Mr. Scrapper's Blues Fantasy Records 2001
12:42 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:47 PM		Washboard Sam Don't Tear My Clothes Washboard Sam Vol. 1 (1935-1936) Document Records 1993
12:50 PM		Big Bill Broonzy Don't Tear My Clothes No. 2 Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 5
12:52 PM		Mance Lipscomb Baby Don't You Lay It on Me Live! at the Cabale Arhoolie Records 1999
12:55 PM		Bob Dylan Baby, Let Me Follow You Down Bob Dylan Columbia 1962
12:57 PM		Dave Van Ronk Stackalee Inside Dave Van Ronk
1:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:03 PM		Rube Lacey Mississippi Jailhouse Groan Really the Blues?: A Blues History
1:08 PM		Hambone Willie Newbern Way Down in Arkansas Roll and Tumble Blues
1:10 PM		Kokomo Arnold Milk Cow Blues Kokomo Arnold, Vol. 1 (1930-1935) Document Records 1991
1:13 PM		Peetie Wheatstraw Police Station Blues (1932) Back To the Crossroads: The Roots of Robert Johnson Yazoo 2004
1:17 PM		Johnny Temple Lead Pencil Blues (1935) Back To the Crossroads: The Roots of Robert Johnson Yazoo 2004
1:20 PM		Robert Johnson I Believe I'll Dusty My Broom King of the Delta Blues
1:22 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:25 PM		Tampa Red & Georgia Tom It's Tight Like That Tampa Red Wolf Records International GmbH 2017
1:28 PM		Georgia Tom If You See My Saviour Georgia Tom (Thomas A. Dorsey) Vol. 2 (1930-1934) Document Records 1992
1:31 PM		Blind Roosevelt Graves I'll Be Rested (When the Roll Is Called) Blind Roosevelt Graves (1929-1936)
1:34 PM		Blind Willie Johnson Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground The Soul of a Man Universe 2003
1:36 PM		Jim Jackson I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop (Take 1) Jim Jackson Vol. 1 (1927-1928) Document Records 1992
1:41 PM		Roy Harvey Guitar Rag Roy Harvey Vol. 3 (1929-1930) Document Records 1999
1:43 PM		Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon Some Sweet Day Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon Vol. 3 1937-1940 Document Records 1994
1:45 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:48 PM		The Walter Family That's My Rabbit, My Dog Caught It Ruckus Juice & Chittlins, Vol. 1 Yazoo 2006
1:50 PM		Whistler and His Jug Band Vamps Of '28 Ruckus Juice & Chittlins, Vol. 1 Yazoo 2006
1:54 PM		Robert Petway Sleepy Woman Blues Mississippi Blues (1935-1951) WOLF RECORDS 1997
1:57 PM		Tommy McClennan I'm a Guitar King Tommy McClennan Vol. 2 "Cross Cut Saw" Document Records 2002
2:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:03 PM		Papa Charlie Jackson Skoodle Um Skoo Papa Charlie Jackson Vol. 2 (1926 - 1928) Document Records 1991
2:05 PM		Crying Sam Collins Midnight Special Blues Jailhouse Blues
2:08 PM		King Solomon Hill The Gone Dead Train Backwood Blues
2:12 PM		Arthur Pettis Good Boy Blues Lonesome Road Blues - 15 Years In the Mississippi Delta (1926-1941) Yazoo 1997
2:15 PM		Mississippi Bracey I'll Overcome Someday Mississippi Blues Vol. 1
2:18 PM		Mississippi Bracey Cherry Ball Mississippi Blues Vol. 1
2:21 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:22 PM		Mose Andrews Young Heifer Blues Mississippi Blues Vol. 1
2:25 PM		Robert Pete Williams Graveyard Blues The Sonet Blues Story Universal Music AB 1973
2:28 PM		Asie Payton Can't Be Satisfied Worried Fat Possum 1999
2:30 PM		Little Brother Montgomery Buddy Bolden's Blues British Traditional Jazz (At a Tangent), Vol. 2 Lake Records 2012
2:36 PM		Little Walter Hate to See You Go Hate to See You Go
2:39 PM		Christone "Kingfish" Ingram Fresh Out (feat. Buddy Guy) Kingfish Alligator Records 2019
2:43 PM		Otis Rush Tore Up N Right Place, Wrong Time Shout! 1985
2:45 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:48 PM		Clargence Gatemouth Brown Okie Dokie Stomp The Peacock Recordings
2:50 PM		Son Seals Now That I'm Down The Son Seals Blues Band Alligator Records 1973
2:55 PM		Albert King Cold Feet The Definitive Albert King On Stax Stax 2011
2:58 PM		Boozoo Chavis & His Magic Sounds Paper in My Shoe Festival Stage 1989 - Festivals Acadiens et Créoles Valcour Records 2013