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The Sonic Bloom

Jun 21, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

With Esoterica

fill-in show!

Blues to jazz!

10:02 AM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin 1972 Parlophone UK 2001
10:06 AM		Little Junior Parker Driving Wheel (Remastered) Little Junior Parker Driving Wheel (Remastered) - Single Bacci Bros Records
10:08 AM		Willie Mabon Seventh Son Willie Mabon The Chess Blues-Rock Songbook Geffen 1997
10:11 AM		Tarheel Slim Number 9 Train Tarheel Slim The Fire/Fury R&B Story GCM/FLG 2011
10:14 AM		J.B. Lenoir Let's Roll (Take 2) J.B. Lenoir Mojo Boogie - An Essential Collection Fuel 2000 2006
10:17 AM		J.B. Lenoir Louise J.B. Lenoir R His Job Recordings 1951-1954 Paula Records 2015
10:20 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:26 AM		Amos Milburn Once Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Amos Milburn Down the Road Apiece: The Best of Amos Milburn Future Noise Music Ltd. 2008
10:29 AM		Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated Blue Mink (2006 Remastered Version) Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated (Expanded Edition) [2006 Remastered Version] Sanctuary Records 1965
10:33 AM		Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated How Long Blues (Remastered) Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated R&B from the Marquee (Remastered 2014) J. Joes J. Edizioni Musicali 2014
10:36 AM		Sharkey Bonano Panama Sharkey Bonano Sharkey Bonano 1928-1937 Timeless Records 1991
10:39 AM		Muggsy Spanier I Can't Give You Anything But Love Muggsy Spanier Mahattan Masters 1945 Storyville 1998
10:42 AM		Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band Early In the Morning Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band Hoodoo Man Blues Delmark 1991
10:47 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:53 AM		Tom Waits Blue Skies Tom Waits The Early Years Vol. 2 Manifesto Records 1993
10:54 AM		Bert Lown & His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone Bert Lown & His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra The Very Best of Bert Lown & His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra Master Classics Records 2010
10:59 AM		Billie Holiday God Bless The Child Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues Verve 2011
11:02 AM		Bessie Smith Wasted Life Blues Bessie Smith The Complete Recordings, Vol. 4 Legacy/Columbia 1993
11:05 AM		Dinah Washington & Hal Mooney Sunny Side of the Street In the Land of Hi-Fi Island Mercury 1956
11:07 AM		Miss La-Vell If I Could Be with You Women Blues Singers (1928-1969) Geffen* 1999
11:10 AM		Katie Webster I Feel so Low Katie Webster Katie Webster Paula Records 1991
11:13 AM		Betty James I'm a Little Mixed Up Women Blues Singers (1928-1969) Geffen* 1999
11:17 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:21 AM		Bertha "Chippie" Hill Some Cold Rainy Day Bertha "Chippie" Hill 1920’s Vintage Jazz & Blues Vintage Masters Inc. 2012
11:22 AM		Dinah Washington Fool That I Am Dinah Washington The Complete Dinah Washington On Mercury Vol. 6 (1958-1960) Verve Reissues 1989
11:24 AM		Blossom Dearie Dearie's Blues Blossom Dearie Verve Jazz Masters 51: Blossom Dearie Verve 1996
11:27 AM		Blossom Dearie Surrey With the Fringe On Top Blossom Dearie Once Upon a Summertime (Remastered) RevOla 2005
11:32 AM		June Christy Softly As in a Morning Sunrise June Christy Something Cool Blue Note Records 1960
11:34 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:37 AM		Keely Smith Stardust Keely Smith The Essential Capitol Collection Capitol Records 2007
11:40 AM		Madeleine Peyroux Dance Me to the End of Love Madeleine Peyroux Careless Love Universal Music Group International 2004
11:47 AM		ben monder, tony malaby, & tom rainey suite 3320: Part 1 live at the 55 bar: 3/3/20 2020

Chat is archived.

goor morning!

or good

goor is a fun word !

sonic blue(ms) off the record ? :)

haha yes! glad you got the message! i knew you would be on me for not lettingyou know!

Fab surprise

hi bryon!

krista announced ! & saw u put out bat signal on social media

oh that was nice of krista...

i feel like a need a smooth bourbon to listen to

a little early haha

haha i remember the days of listening to this music in smoke filled bars too

oh yeah

how times have changed regarding smoking indoors

Good morning all

such a great intersection between folklore & blues even just the performer names have such fantastic stories behind them :)

oh agreed, mark. hi, good morning, bri!

Great progression and arrangement on this Korner track . Wild changes. I see this guy's name in just about every bio book of the classic UK rock bands

yeah, he is wild...just discovered him myself!

An important cornerstone and gateway for younger musicians there w blues leanings

worked f=with giner baker, jack bruce

*\with

geez ginger baker

I am so guilty of reading about him for decades yet never exploring his music

2 of the all time greats there / cream deserves special praise for keeping blues in the public consciousness

yes agreed, bri and mark. i feel the same way, bri! no time like the present to play catch up...:)

when i saw cream tribute @ keswick w baker & Bruce sons all the pre show music was blues / could really feel the bands connection w blues

totally. eric clepton too

clapton

claptons nephew completed the trio / they’re fantastic & can’t miss when they return !

lmk if you hear of them coming!

ha i actually had tix in April 20 one of the first pandemic cancellations:(

will they reschedule?

im sure they’ll get to b an annual appearance @ keswick / I saw in 19

skip james original of im so glad has gotten a few plays on station recently

love skip james

Fab job subbing this morning for SBW IIIrd, Esoterica,. Very enjoyable. And what a command of blues and early jazz you also have. Thanks!

Hi Richard! Thanks for tuning in...I do love this music (of course, I do consult a cheat sheet, but please don't look behind the curtain!). haha

hi richard & I do have to say sbw3 sounds r perfectly placed here on mon mornings! sbw musta left behind a great cheat sheet:)

no let me be clear. i am not that humble! haha. this playlist is all me, baby!

"Pay no attention to the scholar of early jazz with lecture notes behind the curtain! I am the great and powerful Wizard of Roots Music ...!"

yet i agree... love the blues on Monday morning

haha richard

mark, i just meant i devised some notes so i don't lose my place;)

haha didn’t mean to infer that u would b cheating in any way !:) great job in filling very big shoes as sbw is so expert in the plays & history of this sound !!

sbw III is the king and totally an expert, so I NEED a cheat sheet!

you know i am just kidding ya, mark. :)

Oof...

what oof

haha ! where r all the other SB regular chatters guess they didn’t see the memo

Oh no ! :(

what is the stream down??

Back for me stream

Was digging that piano groove there... now we are back! Temporary interruption

oof fingers corssed

Oh MYYYY! Miss La-Vell flat out SCORCHED that one! Another of the many pleasures of 'PRB -- the fabulous music talents rescued from undeserved obscurity by your airplays (and the user-friendly play lists, guiding our listener ways further).

there had been station fm signal issues over the past few days / seem to b sorted out

it is perfect sound to ease into week days

Oof

Oof again, hi everybody!

gonna check fm signals

Back on

Back

FM static happening still Mark? I heard they were working on that issue

fm is fine rn

esoterica u might’ve got a kick outta the robot played lucifer rising soundtrack fri nite when signal went down :) :(

really???

crazy, man

haha yeah the robot did play it a few times when replaced the dj’s last year when world was shut down

btw great article last week about fantastic job of getting PRB dj to lrb!

Again very high marks to all who made that happen

agreed, i am thankful to the prb powers that be

article is in princeton alum weekly for those who didn’t see

Love the Miles version of "Surrey..."

aw me, too

i will have to relisten to the miles version

Yeah the "---in' With the Miles Davis Quintet' series with various dropped-g verbs at front of the lp titles. The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions collects them but i like the original track list orders. Either way good listening!

great album art to this sharkey music !

true

Cookin', Relxin', Workin, Steamin'. Oh and just plain "Miles" title too forgot about that one. Keely & Louis Prima were so great alone and together.

true

keely had her cross to bear with louis, apparently

great sounds today ! & we’ll get to hear ur former show neighbor dan soon :)

yes! will intro him

nice Leo Cohen cover

We had the Leonard live from London version on the wedding play list. Other friends that got married a month earlier did the same . Knew we chose well & kept it on our list too.

Skip Baker records figure importantly in Terry Zwigoff’s “Ghost World”. The soundtrack album (padded out with tracks from Zwigoff’s personal record collection that aren’t really heard in the movie) has curmudgeonly liner notes by the blues purist Zwigoff, damning Cream and their version of “I’m So Glad”!

so sweet!

haha that is great info, david. you also told me zwigoff used all his own 45s for the ghost world soundtrack. thanks for checking in!

78's, I think!

right!

Crazy sounds!

Ghost World is a fun time. Skip James and others on the soundtrack. Love the whole 78 record collector curmudgeon angle in there

i need to watch GW again!

@David I’m def gonna check out those zeigoff liner notes

thx so much for stopping by! have a great week. and see ya Thursday, hopefully! and check in with SBWIII next week:)

I often bring up the BLUES HAMMER! fake request joke in Sonny Boy III's show haha

lol

sounds like he b a bit snobby i think their version is great

Rings so true.

Yeah Mark. I love the Cream version

Nothing to add, except I want to see what my new icon looks like...

hi, dan! just have you a shout out. just discovered this album. def inyour musical vein.

*gave you

The UK bands that were into the blues made me go out and buy the blues artists records and read about them

Yes, I'm a fan. I believe Tony Malaby is partners with Princeton prof/pianist Angelica Sanchez...

And US bands too ( Dead , Allmans, etc)

wow, that is cool, dan

figured an apt transition song to your show....:)

Yeah this is interesting... Great mood and interplay

Indeed, opening with a nice piece from Jeanne Lee's recently reissued classic, CONSPIRACY....

i will listen! thanks

Zwigoff is a buddy (and bandmate in the Cheap Suit Serenaders) of cartoonist Robert Crumb, of whom he directed the 1994 documentary film. Crumb’s another old grouch who hates electric blues-rock. He even claims to dislike the Rolling Stones! Which is rather fishy, considering he created a character named “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”.

haha interesting anecdote. i love the crumb doc...

sad, depressing yet affecting

haha tho i guess we also do need ultra purists too for their pov

have a great show, dan!

See y'all in Dan chat

Good time Eso!

thx! have a great week.