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Blues Off the Record

Feb 17, 2021 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Sonny Boy Williamson III

12:00 PM		Mississippi Jook Band Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Back to the Crossroads: The Roots of Robert Johnson
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12:03 PM		Alexander Peskanov Elite Syncopations Joplin: Piano Rags, Vol. 1
12:07 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:11 PM		Jelly Roll Morton Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis Style / Maple Leaf Rag, New Orleans Style Jelly Roll Morton - The Complete Congress Recordings Jelly Roll Morton 2005
12:15 PM		Jelly Roll Morton Bucktown Blues The Complete Jelly Roll Morton Piano Heritage, Vol.1 - 1923/24 King Jazz 2013
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12:20 PM		James P. Johnson Snowy Morning Blues Snowy Morning Blues Verve Reissues 1991
12:23 PM		Luckey Roberts Railroad Blues The Circle Recordings Solo Art 1994
12:26 PM		Willie "The Lion" Smith Careless Love Pop Corn ITSrecords 2018
12:29 PM		Fats Waller Ain't Misbehavin' If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It! 1943
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12:35 PM		Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here
12:38 PM		Cripple Clarence Lofton Brown Skin Girls Cripple Clarence Lofton Vol. 1 (1935-1939) 1994
12:41 PM		Montana Taylor Indiana Avenue Stomp Circle Recordings Southland 1994
12:44 PM		Roosevelt Sykes Fire Detective Blues Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 1 (1929-1930) Document Records 1992
12:47 PM		Pinetop Smith Pinetop's Blues Reall the Blues?: A Blues History
12:50 PM		Little Brother Montgomery After Hour Blues Little Brother Montgomery (1930-1954) Document Records 1993
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12:54 PM		Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers Give Me That Old Time Religion Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon Vol. 11
12:57 PM		Professor Johnson and His Gospel Singers Give Me That Old Time Religion 1950s Gospel Classics
1:01 PM		Rev. Cleophus Robinson Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up:The Reverend Cleophus Robinson Collection Universal Music Enterprises 2014
1:04 PM		The Zion Travelers I Won't Have to Cross Jordan Alone The Dootone Masters Ace Records 2013
1:07 PM		Brother Joe May My Mother Prayed For Me The Best of Brother Joe May Universal Music Enterprises 2014
1:10 PM		Sister Elizabeth Phillips There's Nothing Like the Holy Spirit Guitar Evangelists (1928–1951)
1:13 PM		The Swan Silvertones Mary Don't You Weep Harvest Gospel: The Swan Silvertones
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1:19 PM		The Original Blind Boys Of Mississippi Let's Have Church (aka Mercy) [feat. Archie Brownlee] The Great Lost Blind Boys Album (feat. Archie Brownlee) Vee-Jay Records 1993
1:22 PM		Rev. J.M. Gates Smoking Woman In the Street Rev. J.M. Gates Vol. 9 (1934-1941) Document Records 1996
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1:26 PM		Rev. Edward W. Clayborn Come And Go With Me to My Father's House Blind Joe Taggart Vol. 2 (1929-1934)
1:29 PM		Rev. I.B. Ware You Better Quit Drinking Shine Raw Pre-war Gospel (1926–36)
1:33 PM		Nugrape Twins Theres a City Built of Mansions American Primitive, Vol. II - Pre-War Revenants 2005
1:36 PM		Eddie Head and Family Lord I'm the True Vine Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926–36)
1:38 PM		Blind Roosevelt Graves When I Lay My Burdens Down Blind Roosevelt Graves (1929-1936)
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1:42 PM		John Byrd & Washboard Walter That White Mule of Sin Rare Country Blues Vol. 2 (1929–1943)
1:46 PM		Jim Jackson Hesitation Blues (Oh! Baby, Must I Hesitate?) Jim Jackson Vol. 2 (1928-1930) Document Records 1992
1:49 PM		Andrew & Jim Baxter Operator Blues The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of: Super Rarities 2006
1:53 PM		Crying Sam Collins Midnight Special Blues Jailhouse Blues
1:55 PM		Bogus Ben Covington I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop Alabama: Black Country Dance Bands
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2:01 PM		The Two Charlies Pork Chop Blues Charley Jordan, Vol. 3 (1935 - 1937) 1992
2:04 PM		Kid Cole Hey Hey Mama Blues Rare Country Blues Vol. 3
2:08 PM		Taylor's Weatherbirds Do You Love Me Blues Rare Country Blues Vol. 2 (1929–1943)
2:11 PM		Bob Campbell Shotgun Blues Rare Country Blues Vol. 2
2:14 PM		Skoodle Dum Doo and Sheffield Broome Street Blues Rare Country Blues Vol. 2 (1929–1943)
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2:17 PM		Leola Manning Satan Is Busy in Knoxville Rare Country Blues (1928–1937)
2:20 PM		Willie Bee (Willie B. James) Can't Control My Mind Rare Country Blues Vol. 4
2:24 PM		Memphis Minnie Walking and Crying Blues Memphis Minnie 1935–1941
2:26 PM		Memphis Jug Band Whitewash Station Blues Memphis Jug Band, Vol. 2 Frog 1997
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2:30 PM		Memphis Jug Band Memphis Boy Blues Memphis Jug Band
2:33 PM		Cloe's Washboard Band Undertaker Blues Times Ain't Like They Used to Be: Early American Rural Music, Vol. 3 2005
2:36 PM		Sleepy John Estes Streetcar Blues Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 7: Early American Rural Music Vol. 3
2:39 PM		Snooky Pryor My Baby Walked Out On Me Snooky Pryor
2:42 PM		Peetie Wheatstraw Tennessee Peaches Blues Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 1 1930-1932 1993
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2:46 PM		Wynonie Harris Rock Mr. Blues Rock, Mr. Blues!
2:49 PM		Big Joe Turner St. Louis Blues Shake, Rattle & Rock 1956
2:53 PM		Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Good Looking Woman The Peacock Recordings: 1949-1959 2015
2:56 PM		Lowell Fulson Chuck with the Boys Texas Guitar Killers

Chat is archived.

Hi! I'm sorry I'm not able to open the chat earlier at this new Wednesday slot but I'll try to open it by 1:30 when I can!

BRILLIANT SHOW!! Many thanks!!

Thank you!

This Clayborn tune has a weirdly fascinating bass line.

Yes it does! Almost like a jug-band bass line but played on a string instrument of some kind.

What BLUES?? These tunes are making me so HAPPY!! Cheers!

I assume he was playing it on the guitar with his thumb, but he rarely played the root of the chord.

I was trying to figure that out. Sounded low for a guitar but that may be it!

this melody reminds me of "sooner or later god will cut you down"

I meant "the true vine" does

Never get tired of hesitation blues versions

Glad you can make it at the new slot Brian! Neither do I as you can tell

People just don't write about pork chops anymore

Both of "the Two charlies" and "bogus ben" are doing versions of the same song, which seems to have originally been a kind of parody of a religious number: https://www.earlyblues.com/Essay%20-%20I%20Heard%20The%20Voice%20of%20a%20Pork%20Chop.htm

That's really interesting

Streaming is down as of 5 mins ago

The online stream is not working for me. am I the only one?

oop nope.

I almost threw my phone across town

Now I have the BLUES. I’m cry.

Oh no!

I wrote to the tech director

Thanks!

Hey folks, looks like an internet outage at the transmitter has taken our streams down for the moment. We're still broadcasting long and strong on the FM. Working on the streams issue now. Fingers X'd for quick resolution.

Thanks Mike!