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Blues Off the Record

Apr 7, 2021 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Sonny Boy Williamson III

12:00 PM		Blind Roosevelt Graves Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Blind Roosevelt Graves (1929-1936)
12:03 PM		Mose Allison Young Man's Blues Rudy Van Gelder Remasters: Mose Allison Sings 1957
12:04 PM		Harlem Hamfats Weed Smoker's Dream Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936 1994
12:08 PM		Leon Redbone My Walking Stick On the Track 1975
12:12 PM		Willie "The Lion" Smith Harlem Joys Sissy
12:15 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:18 PM		Willie "The Lion" Smith La De Doody Do Sissy ITSrecords 2018
12:21 PM		Milt Herth Trio Twelfth Street Rag Music Hall Magic: The Electric Organ, Vol. 2 Signature 2012
12:24 PM		Jimmy Smith Back At the Chicken Shack Back At the Chicken Shack: The Incredible Jimmy Smith 1963
12:32 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:33 PM		Dr. Lonnie Smith & Iggy Pop Sunshine Superman Breathe Blue Note Records 2021
12:39 PM		Lil Armstrong & Her Swing Band Let's Get Happy Together Doin' the Suzie Q (Authentic Recordings 1936-1940) JazzAge 2014
12:43 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:45 PM		Lil Armstrong & Her Swing Band You Shall Reap What You Sow Doin' the Suzie Q (Authentic Recordings 1936-1940) JazzAge 2014
12:48 PM		Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five Savoy Blues Muskrat Ramble
12:51 PM		Lonnie Johnston Rocks In My Bed Lonnie Johnson Vol. 3 (1944-1947) Document Records 1992
12:55 PM		Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band Get The "L" On Down the Road Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon Vol. 1 1926-1929
12:58 PM		Texas Alexander Double Crossing Blues Texas Alexander (1927-1951)
1:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:03 PM		Little Hat Jones Corpus Blues Texas Blues (1927-1935)
1:06 PM		T-Bone Walker Trinity River Blues Texas Blues (1927-1935)
1:09 PM		Willie Reed Some Low Down Groundhog Blues Texas Blues (1927-1935)
1:12 PM		Henry Thomas Run, Mollie, Run Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929 1989
1:15 PM		Washboard Sam Diggin' My Potatoes Washboard Sam Vol. 4 1939-1940 2000
1:18 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:19 PM		Jimmie Rodgers Mississippi Delta Blues Mississippi Delta Blues
1:22 PM		Muddy Waters Tell Me Baby You Shook Me: The Chess Masters, Vol. 3 (1958 to 1963) 1960
1:25 PM		Howlin' Wolf Down In the Bottom The Chess Box Geffen 1991
1:27 PM		J.B. Lenoir I Feel So Good Alabama Blues! 1989
1:30 PM		Magic Sam I Feel So Good - I Wanna Boogie West Side Soul 1967
1:34 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:36 PM		J.B. Hutto Hip-Shakin' Hawk Squat Delmark 2014
1:39 PM		Little Walter Confessin' the Blues His Best 1956-1964: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
1:41 PM		Lowell Fulson Do Me Right The Complete Chess Masters 1997
1:44 PM		Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown I Live My Life Taking My Chances
1:47 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:48 PM		Jimmy "T99" Nelson Unlock the Lock Cry Hard Luck 2004
1:50 PM		Titus Turner A Walk on the Wild Side A Walk on the Wild Side
1:53 PM		The Cats & The Fiddle Gangbusters We Cats Will Sing For You
1:56 PM		Lucky Millinder Chew Tobacco Rag Ram-Bunk-Shush
1:58 PM		Jimmie Lunceford Ain't She Sweet Big Bands of the Swing Era 1957
2:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:02 PM		Louis Jordan Dad Gum Ya Hide, Boy! Jack, You're Dead: The Essential Blue Archive 1955
2:05 PM		Amos Milburn Milk and Water Down the Road Apiece: The Best of Amos Milburn 1957
2:09 PM		Johnny Otis Good Golly The Capitol Years 1989
2:10 PM		Skip James Yola My Blues Away Complete Early Recordings 1931
2:13 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:15 PM		King Solomon Hill Down on My Bended Knee (Take 2) Giants WOLF RECORDS 1998
2:18 PM		John Henry Barbee You'll Work Down to Me Someday Giants WOLF RECORDS 1998
2:20 PM		Jimmie Gordon Playing In the Grass Jimmie Gordon Vol. 2 (1936-1938) Document Records 1999
2:23 PM		Ed Bell Snigglin' Blues Ed Bell - Mamlish Blues (1927 - 1930) 1992
2:25 PM		Rube Lacey Ham Hound Crave Son House & Great Delta Blues Singers 1928–1930
2:28 PM		Mari Jones Riba Daba Doo More Great Rockin' Girls
2:31 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:32 PM		Barbara Thomas These Silly Blues The Sun Records Sounds of Barbara Pitman & Other Rockin' Girls
2:33 PM		Sister Rosetta Tharpe Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? Gospel Train (Expanded Edition) 1956
2:36 PM		Big Maybelle Rain Down Rain The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952-1955 1952
2:39 PM		Big Mama Thornton Rock-A-Bye Baby Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings 1992
2:43 PM		Ida Cox Deep Sea Blues (Take 2) Ida Cox Vol. 5 (1939-1940) Document Records 1999
2:45 PM		Sippie Wallace Devil Dance Blues Sippie Wallace Vol. 1 (1923-1925) 2005
2:48 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:49 PM		Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns Don't You Know Yockomo Having A Good Time 1965
2:52 PM		Paul Gayten Driving Home Chess New Orleans Geffen 1995
2:55 PM		Clarence "Frogman" Henry It Won't Be Long Chess New Orleans Geffen 1995
2:57 PM		Clifton Chenier The Big Wheel (Squeeze Box Shuffle) Chess New Orleans Geffen 1995

Chat is archived.

Hello all!

A fun program today in preparation for the launch of the WPRB membership drive, which runs tomorrow until the 17th!

Love Mose!

Happy legalization yall

Happy legalization indeed!

Dickran Gobalian! New Hope Pa resident for many years. RIP Leon

This organ piece is choice! Love it

12th St Rag! Love this piece. Check out the wild Roy Clark pickin version

Thanks Brian -- will do! re: Roy Clark

All stars today SBW3! Great picks

Loving all the organs today! One of my favorite instruments!

Especially love "la de doody do"

Thanks Krista!

Haha brian had to look up dickran gobalian/ saw he passed in NH couple years ago / surprised at his age he seemed like 60yo in 1980 :)

Ya I think he lived on Aquetong Rd. And apparently was in hospice in Newtown for a stretch toward the end. Character. Friend of mine had a job as his driver for a tour. There was a dedicated seat in the minivan for Leon's hat.

Saw him tune his guitar for about 10 minutes a Philly Folk Fest mid 1990s. I think that was schtick that he did many times tho

Red shiny suit on SNL was such a classic moment

haha yes what a mysterious character dylan said when meeting him didn’t know if he was 25 or 60 famous for changing up songs / set lists & stage chatting wow wish i got to see him !

I'm reading Looking To Get Lost, a new collection of rock and blues journalist Peter Guralnick's musician profiles with updates. It's interesting that as much as Jimmy Rodgers acknowledged his debt the blues, many of the African American blues greats who gained new fame during the Folk Revival were also Jimmie Rodgers fans.

One of those blues greats that Guralnick holds in especially high esteem (along with Muddy Waters) is Howlin' Wolf, especially as a killer in-person performer. That last Wolf track "Down in the Bottom" surely gives a hint why!

I'll be on the look out for the Guralnick collection! And Wolf is certainly one of the all time greats.

Hey Sonny Boy! Sounding good today. Have you ever heard 'Tea for Two', by some singers that sound a lot like Cats in the Fiddle? I made a tape of this in high scholl and have never found since. On a record that I really want to call 'New World Records'. A fun thing with original melody combined with a bit of ... a ... 'weefer' song .....

Hey Jimbo -- sorry for late response

Could it be any of these?

https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/basic/index?term=tea+for+two&yt0=Search

I'm not finding it JImbo but I'll keep looking!

Meanwhile I have to run off and close the chat a bit early -- see you all next week for the drive show!