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Blues, Off The Record

Oct 25, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

With Sonny Boy Williamson III

10:01 AM		Blind Roosevelt Graves Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Blind Roosevelt Graves
10:02 AM		Fats Waller Lonesome Me Private Acetates and Film Soundtracks
10:07 AM		The Charlatans 32-20 Mindrocker: A US-Punk Anthology, Vol. 3 (Remastered) TTW 1981
10:09 AM		The Vallants Frieda Frieda Hot Jumpin Rock n Roll
10:13 AM		Robert Nighthawk Honey Hush Live On Maxwell Street 1964 New Rounder 2000
10:15 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:16 AM		R.L. Burnside Death Bell Blues Too Bad Jim Fat Possum 1994
10:21 AM		J.B. Lenoir I'm In Korea Natural Man (Expanded Edition) Geffen 1970
10:23 AM		Howlin' Wolf Morning at Midnight Ridin' in the Moonlight
10:26 AM		Jelly Roll Morton Perfect Rag Jelly Roll Morton
10:28 AM		Big Maceo Texas Stomp Blues Classics
10:33 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:34 AM		Scrapper Blackwell Penal Farm Blues The Virtuoso Guitar of Scrapper Blackwell Yazoo 2006
10:38 AM		Johnny Fuller First Stage of the Blues Oakland Blues
10:43 AM		Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Walkin' My Blues Away Sonny & Brownie A&M 1973
10:45 AM		Lightnin' Hopkins Can't Be Successful Early Recordings Vol. 2
10:47 AM		Fred McDowell & His Blues Boys Levee Camp Blues Fred McDowell & His Blues Boys
10:53 AM		Luther Allison Bad Love Soul Fixin' Man Alligator Records 1994
10:59 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:08 AM		Dinah Washington Evil Gal Blues The Best In Blues Verve Reissues 1957
11:10 AM		Bessie Smith Devil's Gonna Git You The Complete Recordings Vol. 4 Legacy/Columbia 1993
11:13 AM		The Yas Yas Girl (Merline Johnson) Sold It to the Devil The Yas Yas Girl (Merline Johnson) Vol. 1 1937-1938 Document Records 1994
11:16 AM		Nina Simone I Put A Spell On You I Put a Spell On You Verve 2013
11:19 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:21 AM		Spark Plug Smith & Tallahassee Tight Vampire Woman Spark Plug Smith & Tallahassee Tight (1933-1934) Document Records 1995
11:24 AM		Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats Magic Spell Blues Memphis Highway Stomp Document Records 2009
11:27 AM		Charlie "Specks" McFadden Lonesome Ghost Blues Charlie "Specks" McFadden (1927-1937) Document Records 1993
11:30 AM		George Carter Ghost Woman Blues Georgia Blues and Gospel
11:32 AM		Helen Gross Haunted House Blues Helen Gross (1924-1925) Document Records 1996
11:36 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:37 AM		The Ghouls Dracula's Theme Halloween With the Ghouls Capitol Records 2009
11:40 AM		John Zacherle Happy Halloween Monster Mash / Scary Tales ABKCO (US) 2010
11:42 AM		Don Hinson & The Rigamorticians Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood Monster Dance Party Capitol Records 1964
11:45 AM		Screamin' Jay Hawkins Whistlin' Past the Graveyard Are You One of Jay's Kids?
11:49 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:50 AM		Albert King Born Under a Bad Sign Born Under A Bad Sign
11:53 AM		Howlin' Wolf I Ain't Superstitious 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Blues Classics Geffen 2003
11:55 AM		Jim Jackson I'm Gonna Start Me a Graveyard of My Own Jim Jackson Vol. 1 (1927-1928) Document Records 1992
11:58 AM		Los Vampiranos El Vampiro El Vampiro: El Paso Rock, Vol. 8 Norton Records Inc. 2013

Chat is archived.

hi!

Good morning to you

and to you too!

I need my weekly dose of Jelly Roll. 😊

I'll see what I can do!

Thankyou my friend.

Thnx for playing R.L. Burnside. I love his sound. He is great.

my pleasure!

Wow! Howlin' Wolf. One of my favorites.

Sonny boy did you ever hear Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee?

I've heard their records yes!

Do you have any there?

R.L. Burnside sang the Sopranos theme, right? I just looked through some old concert calendars to find out if I’ve ever seen him. Close, but not quite. At Maxwell’s in 1999, I saw the “Fat Possum Juke Joint Caravan” which featured T-Model Ford, Paul “Wine” Jones and Robert Belfour.

Can't claim to know anything about the Sopranos. Must have been cool to see those musicians!

Thanks for the tunes again. And I kept on walkin, suns gonna shine in my back door someday.

Keep on walkin! Thanks Mike.

The Sopranos theme song was done by a group called Alabama 3 I think.

Love this Show Sonny Boy. So much great music. Thnx as always.

Last week there was a mention of Rev. Gary Davis and Harlem, and I forgot to add that he had an album "Harlem Street Singer", which may have been some of the association. Just read that he died in Hammonton, southern central NJ. (there is not too much there)

I think I had read that... somewhere down in the barrens?

Is this Mississippi Fred McDowell?

T'was!

Nice

I thought so.

At first I thought I saw a typo in that Howlin’ Wolf song title, but I read that after Chess Records put out “Moanin’ At Midnight”, Wolf rerecorded it for RPM Records. Those tricky bastards changed the title!

Hi SBW IIIrd! I've been lurkin' and enjoyin' your latest playlist. And this track "Bad Love" by Luther Allison is A KILLER!!!

thanks Richard!

Ah so that explains it!

About "Mornin' at Midnight"

Hammonton has many blueberry farms and is within the NJ Pinelands National Reserve

Yeah Sopranos theme is Alabama 3, an English band . RL Burnside "It's Bad You Know" is on at least 1 episode. I started my 3rd time binge on all the episodes recently! Some great music.

Hammonton is "blueberry country" of NJ

I was totally gob-smacked by Luther Allison's "Bad Love" ... Oh my ...

No record too scratchy! Good words.

@Jim Floyd Hey there! It's an honor for N.J. to be the last home to Rev. Gary Davis. Does anyone know what brought him to Hammonton? Did he have family there (like an adult daughter or son)?

Ooh, this Dinah Washington track is bound to be good... 😈

Morning, SBW the 3rd 🎃 hey, gang!

Morning Christine!

@Richard I'd be curious to know too

Is there a biography of him?

Of course I’m here for the music of my Skullture 💀🦇🐺🎃🕷🕸🎼🎶🎵

hehe

It's a good morning for malcontents 💀

🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻🧛🏻‍♂️

Good Mourning to ALL ⚰️ 🪦

here ya go......In 1968 Davis bought a house in Jamaica, Queens. He continued to perform locally in the New York and New Jersey area. On May 5, 1972, he suffered a heart attack while on the way to a performance in Newtonville, New Jersey. He died at William Kessler Memorial Hospital in Hammonton, New Jersey and is buried in Rockville Cemetery in Lynbrook, New York.

the Rev. Davis bio......http://www.culturalequity.org/alan-lomax/friends/davis

Thanks Jim!

NINA SIMONE 💟

SBW IIIrd, in keeping with your "blues for Hallowe'en" theme, it's appropriate to remind all that in the early 1930s Cab Calloway, the greatest performer & big band leader to ever fill out a zoot suit, appeared -- not only his voice & band, but his signature dance moves on-screen via rotoscoping -- in three Betty Boop cartoons produced by the Fleischer studios. Wonderfully creepy, with casts of dancin' skeletons, soaring ghosts and even uncanny walruses (found easily on YouTube).

I've talked about these cartoons over the years -- they're favorites of mine

@Jim Floyd , Okay, thanks for the Gary Davis info. So the man died on the road, still touring ...

@Richard there's been going around the internet an artist who recreated on of the animations with a series of 76 cartoons

also, years ago Woody Mann gave me the video he did on Rev. Davis (https://www.harlemstreetsinger.com/), but I have not looked at it in a long time

*tattoos I mean https://www.tiktok.com/@philberge/video/7007468444933180677?lang=en

@Sonny Boy III Yes, I know you've highlighted the Cab Calloway-Betty Boop cartoons over the years, thanks. I encourage any Blues Off The Record fans to check them out if you've never seen them. Pretty amazing stuff ...

Thanks Richard!

@Jim Floyd and Sonny Boy III Major thanks for those links.

enjoy Richard.....

@Sonny Boy III WOW that TikTok link of the Fleischer animations recreated as a montage of tattoos ... !!! You can see why some experts on African-American dance laud Calloway's footwork as the direct granddaddy of Michael Jackson's "moonwalk" moves, James Brown's "camel walk" and other now-classic stage steps.

Great selections! Cheers, DJ Sonny Boy Williamson III❗️❗️❗️ 👻 🧟‍♂️ 💀

thanks Malcontent!

That's ZACHERLEY!!!! (as he spelled his TV persona name) My all-time favorite late-nite schlocky monster movie show host.

And this Don Hinson track is a HOOT! Never heard it before ... Hallowe'en 2021 is officially game on! Thanks, SBW IIIrd.

:) happy halloween!

PS ... and SBW IIIrd, I'll leave it to you to explain to the loyal listenership the significance of the title of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins album Are You One of Jay's Kids? ... ;-))

hahaha he apparently had so many the question could often fairly be asked

This one is good.

I'm gonna start me a graveyard of my own!

And it's my understanding there was, at least for a while, a website that posted Jay's old touring schedules so you could see if he was in your town 9 months before your birth. Seriously! I don't know if it's still active, didn't find it via a very quick web search ...

See you next time!

hahahaha

thanks everyone!