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Blues, Off The Record

Jan 3, 2022 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

With Sonny Boy Williamson III

10:00 AM		Mississippi Jook Band Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Blind Roosevelt Graves
10:02 AM		Stefan Grossman Love, Devils and the Blues Love, Devils and the Blues 1988
10:04 AM		Taj Mahal Take a Giant Step The Taj Mahal Anthology
10:08 AM		Memphis Slim Rockin' the Blues Mother Earth
10:10 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:11 AM		Memphis Slim Ain't Nothin' but a Texas Boogie Played on a Harpsichord South Side Reunion
10:13 AM		Jimmy Reed I Wanta Know The New Jimmy Reed Album
10:16 AM		Koko Taylor But On the Other Hand Royal Blue 2000
10:20 AM		Little Esther It's So Good Ladies Sing the Blues
10:23 AM		T-Bone Walker You're My Best Poker Hand His Original 1945-1950 Performances
10:26 AM		Otis Rush Take a Look Behind Right Place, Wrong Time 1971
10:31 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:33 AM		Mighty Joe Young Green Light Mighty Joe Young 1976
10:37 AM		Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page Tribute to Elmore British Archives Vol. 1
10:39 AM		Tampa Red Rock It In Rhythm Guitar Wizard
10:42 AM		Memphis Jug Band Sometimes I Think I Love You Memphis Jug Band 1990
10:45 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:46 AM		Jelly Roll Morton Smoke House Blues The Complete Jelly Roll Morton
10:51 AM		Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Mood Indigo Big Band's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
10:52 AM		Willie Dixon & The Big Three Trio If The Sea Was Whiskey The Big Three Trio
10:55 AM		Muddy Waters Oh Yeah One More Mile: Chess Collectibles, Vol. 1 1994
11:00 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:01 AM		Eddie Floyd Bring It On Home To Me Stax Soul Brothers
11:03 AM		Joe Houston Bobby Sox Ramble Imperial Musicians: 1951-1962
11:05 AM		Jimmy Rogers Act Like You Love Me The Complete Chess Recordings 1974
11:09 AM		Wilbert Harrison Florida Special Listen to My Song
11:11 AM		George "Harmonica" Smith Tell Me Mama Blues with a Feeling
11:14 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:15 AM		Arthur "Guitar" Kelley I Don't Know Why Swamp Blues
11:18 AM		Silas Hogan I Didn't Tell Her to Leave Swamp Blues
11:20 AM		Peg Leg Howell Ball and Chain Blues The Rough Guide to Blues Behind Bars
11:23 AM		Tommy Johnson Cool Drink of Water Blues American Epic: The Best of Blues 2017
11:27 AM		Alan Lomax What Makes a Work Song Leader? / Early in the Morning Negro Prison Songs from the Mississippi State Penitentiary
11:34 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:35 AM		Big Joe Williams Somebody's Been Fooling #1 Mississippi's Big Joe Williams and His Nine-String Guitar 1995
11:37 AM		H-Bomb Ferguson and Varetta Dillard Work for My Baby Life Is Hard
11:40 AM		Pee Wee Crayton Blues After Hours Anthology of the Blues: West Coast Blues
11:43 AM		Otis Spann Doctor Blues Heart Loaded with Trouble
11:46 AM		Elizabeth Cotten Wilson Rag Elizabeth Cotten, Vol. 3: When I'm Gone 1965
11:51 AM		Shirley Griffith Bye Bye Blues Blue Goose
11:54 AM		Lightnin' Hopkins Please Help Poor Me Legacy of the Blues Vol. 12
11:58 AM		John Fahey The Assassination of Stephan Grossman John Fahey and His Orchestra

Chat is archived.

Happy new year!

Hello and Happy New Year!

peeked ahead and saw this great Taj classic doing Coffin & King's song. Very nice

Happy New Year! 🎊

Texas harpsichord boogie. Nice.

Happy new year to you both!

DJ Sonny Boy Williamson III ! Nice surprise to hear you here today! Happy New Year! Great start to the show!

KOKO TAYLOR ❤️‍🔥

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Today's show has the green light

Thanks Christine! :)

Green lights ahead let's hope for us all

Thank you, Sonny Boy Williamson III! You're starting the new year off right 🎸🔥

Odd that Clapton doesn't seem to be playing slide on his tribute to Elmore but if any guitarist can make fretted playing sound like slide it may be him.

this GEM right now!

‘Mood Indigo’ 💎

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

great set

Hidden blessings of a snow day. This show live. I think your Muddy showcase in the fall was my last full show. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year! Glad you can listen in live.

Jumpin' mix of powerful tracks this morning, SBW 3rd. Solid! Just the thing to get us stoked for 2022. Wishing everyone a Happy -- and, especially, a Healthy -- New Year.

Thanks Richard!

Wow! Alan Lomax hits gold again.

I agree and concur with DJ DaveTheObscure!

@ ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ & ᎷяMΔᏞᏨØИᎢΞNᎢ Yes indeed! There have been a number of criticisms of Alan Lomax and his father John on issues of methodology, theories of music & the arts, relations with women & minorities. Some criticisms may have validity, some may not. But clearly ... if Alan Lomax hadn't recorded the prison work gang song and interview proceeding it that we just heard, would anyone else have done it? Or (more likely) would it have been lost forever?

Good points all around Richard! I thought this interview was a good example of how the Lomaxes are often looking for certain types of answers, and you can hear the interview subjects try to figure out what they want to hear.

As with the question about what makes a good work song leader

@ Sonny Boy III (host) Yes, a good example of "the anthropologist effect": Is the researcher (and perhaps unconsciously) asking leading questions to get an answer that supports their personal theories? And/or is the informant being courteous with this guest and politely giving an answer that the guest wants to hear?

With the added complication of a power differential between the white man with the microphone and the incarcerated black man in Mississippi, who called Lomax simply "boss"

But I do think the interviewee gave honest and valuable answers about what makes a good work song leader -- especially the priority of knowing, feeling and transmitting the authentic timing & rhythms of the work song.

Oh, more controversies!?! Through the lens of 2022?!? Say it ain’t so!!!

I agree Richard -- once he figured out what Lomax meant. But it's clear that at first the question - at least as posed - was surprising to the interviewee, which shows at least that what seemed like an obvious question to Lomax wasn't as obvious to him!

DJ Sonny Boy Williamson III, many thanks for another great show! Always luv the BLUES! Cheers and kind regards to you!

Thank you Mr. Malcontent!

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@ Sonny Boy III (host) Oh my yes! An incarcerated black man at Parchman prison farm is not going to be anything but deferential to a visiting white scholar -- especially as there was likely one or more guards standing right there who would react very strongly to anything they might deem to be so-called "uppity" talk from the inmate.

Thanks again for a marvelous start to your 2022 season.

Thanks everyone!

Thank you so much for a great start to 2022, and a wonderful waking up soundtrack

Thanks Andrew!

Have a good week!