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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