00:10 Welcome to Episode #011 of Confessing the Blues!

02:24 New Music!

• “Dust My Broom” off the eponymous Taj Mahal, available on eMusic and Amazon.
• “Every Day I Have the Blues” by Luther Johnson on Born in Georgia, found on eMusic and Amazon.
• “Hold That Train Conductor” done by Byther Smith on the album Hold That Train, findable on eMusic and Amazon.
• “Basin Street Blues” performed by Johnny Maddox on Dixieland Blues, available on eMusic and Amazon.

15:55 The Jook and the Ballroom: We Continue to Discuss

Prompted by an email from Tim Jones in Australia, we continue the discussion about the music played for the two different venues and how it matters to us.  We offer up a ton of music to show the differences and go over some of the nuances that set the music and dance styles apart.

• “Paper Wooden Daddy” by Dennis McMillon, available on the compilation East Coast Blues Classics on eMusic.
• “Sugar Blues” done by Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the album The Hurricane Sessions, available on eMusic; another version is available on New Orleans Preservation Vol. 1 which you can get on their website.
• “Black and Tan Fantasy” off The Great Summit – The Master Takes by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, available on Amazon.
• “Hoodoo Hoodoo” by Sonny Boy Williamson off of Mean Old World: The Blues From 1940-1994 Vol. 1, painfully available on Amazon, less painfully so on Mississippi Blues on eMusic.
• “Gangster’s Blues” by Peetie Wheatstraw on Peetie Wheatstraw vol. 7, found on eMusic or on Amazon.
• “Rose Get Your Clothes” done by Wynonie Harris, available on the Properbox Rockin’ the Blues which can be found on Amazon.
• “Let’s Fall In Love Again” by Harlem Hamfats, found on Harlem Hamfats Vol. 2 on eMusic.
• “You Ought to Be Ashamed” by Byther Smith on Hold That Train, found on eMusic and Amazon.
• “St. Louis Blues” as performed by Ruth Brown on Blues on Broadway, obtainable on eMusic or Amazon.

54:08 Blues Shout! Instructors’ Choices

• Joe Demers gives us “Come On In My Kitchen” by Porterdavis on Live at Eddie’s Attic, available on eMusic or on their website.
• Damon Stone loves some Keb’ Mo’ and wants you to hear “Gimme What You Got” off of The Door, found on eMusic or Amazon.

59:12 Feedback

• Tim Jones emails from Australia to draw our attention to C.W. Stoneking.  We play “I Heard the Marchin’ of the Drum” off of Jungle Blues. You can find his music on his Myspace and on his website.
• Jenn Santiago draws our attention to a couple of articles via Facebook.  The discussion regards whether or not the music of Robert Johnson is being reproduced in the same way as it was originally recorded.  The original column is here; the follow-up on the discussion is here.

72:35 Thanks!

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00:13 Welcome to Episode #010 of Confessing the Blues!

02:40 Tribute to Lena Horne

With the recent passing of this amazing performer, we decide to point out a few of her more noteworthy songs and give a few notes on her incredible life.

• “I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But the Blues” off The Young Star (Bluebird’s Best), available on eMusic.
• “Hesitating Blues” on A Fine Romance and available on eMusic.
• “St. Louis Blues” and “Stormy Weather,” both on Stormy Weather on eMusic.

11:56 New Music

• “New Orleans Bump’”  by Jellyroll Morton, collected on the Doctor Jazz Properbox which is available on Amazon.
• “Lost a Good Woman” from Johnny Shines on Back to the Country, found on eMusic and Amazon.
• “Standing at the Crossroads” by James “Son” Thomas on Hard Times, on eMusic and Amazon.
• “Goin’ Down Slow” done by Cousin Joe off of Bad Luck Blues from eMusic and Amazon.  His autobiography is available on Amazon.
• The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn were awesome enough to let us play a full track off their album Good Night Harry!  We chose to play “Let It Roll,” which you can go buy from them on cdBaby.

37:30 Blues Shout! The Post-Mortem

We discuss several of the points of how we feel about the event, and wanted to discuss the particulars of the two bands that played over the weekend.

• Omar and the Howlers were the Friday band, their website is here.
• “Dream Girl” is off of their latest album Big Town Playboy, available on their website or on eMusic.
• The Asylum Street Spankers played Saturday, their site is here.
• “Got My Mojo Workin’” is off of their album Mercurial, available on their website or on eMusic.

We also have a few picks from the instructors at Shout!

• Nelle Hatley chose “Further On Down the Road” by the Crazidays, you can hear more of them on MySpace.
• Heidi Fite went with “I Pity the Fool” from Bobby Blue Bland off of Two Steps From the Blues, found on Amazon.
• Roy Rydbeck offers up “Rain” by Charlie Baty; the song is available on the Alligator Records 20th Anniversary Collection, available on Amazon.  The credit on the track is Rick Estrin; it’s the same song, Charlie formerly played with Estrin in the band they’d formed, Little Charlie and the Nightcats.

60:15 Competitions and Performances: Relevance?

We discuss the ways that competitions and performances are pertinent to the music you hear at dances, and how important it is that we pay attention to what people do with these events.  One of the primary points we discussed over Shout was the music used for the competitions, and we discuss how we differentiate between them and offer some examples.

• “The Mooche” by Sidney Bechet on Vive La France on eMusic (seems like a nice set).
• “I Want to Talk About You” as done by John Lee Hooker on That’s My Story, available on eMusic and Amazon.
• “Slow Down” by Louis Jordan on The Complete 1950-1952 Decca Recordings, which you can find on Amazon (ouch!).

90:36 Feedback

• Doug Sutton comments on how we’re helping give him more to think about and play in his sets as a new DJ.  Thanks, Doug!
• Damon Stone is back again, this time wanting to mention Down Home Blues coming up this summer.  Check out the website for details.

94:10 Thanks!

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00:12 Welcome to Episode #009 of Confessing the Blues!

01:10 Keith’s New Music To Check Out

• “St. James Infirmary’” by The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn and released on Good Night Harry, available on both eMusic and CD Baby. Check out their website here.
• “Dream Blues” from Johnny Hodges on Essential Jazz Masters, found on eMusic.
• “Trouble Blues” by the great Sam Cooke, found on The Man Who Invented Soul on eMusic.
• “Trouble in Mind” as presented by Jimmy Rushing on Five Feet of Soul, available on eMusic.
• “Trouble in Mind” yet again, this time by Peter Carlsson and Blå Grodorna off of their self-titled album, also on eMusic.

12:31 Jonathan Speaks!  He’ll be at Emerald City Blues Festival in November!

14:50 Jonathan’s New Music to Check Out

• “Moaning and Groaning” by Johnny Young on Chicago Blues on eMusic.
• “Wee Baby Blues” from Lynwood Slim’s Last Call, available on CD Baby and eMusic.
• “Feather Brain Blues” done by Muggsy Spanier, available on Manhattan Masters 1945 on eMusic.
• “Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down” off of the Mississippi Sheiks tribute album Things About Comin’ My Way, performed by Bruce Cockburn and available on CD Baby and eMusic.

25:04 Feedback

• Christine Moser writes in to point us towards the thriving blues and jazz communities in Europe, show us a couple of new artists on the way: The Lake Village Ramblers Jazz Band and The Caldonian Blues Band.  Check out her blog here, where she gives us a mention, as well as talks about her experiences DJing and enjoying blues music.

30:43 Keith Returns…Now With More Feedback!

• Kate Bramley-Moore talks to us about the workshop Damon Stone taught in Sweden.  She wanted to point out Albert King’s “I’ll Play the Blues For You,” which is available on eMusic on the album of the same name.  The shorter version is available here.
• More audio feedback, this time from Duane Grover asking that we stem the tide of “Black Rattler” being played at dances across the country; the album is available on Amazon on The Carl Sonny Leyland Trio Meets Nathan James and Ben Hernandez (price = ouch!).  He also mentioned how truly awesome the Spankers were at Shout…you guys really did miss out, if you weren’t there.

39:40 Thanks!

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