Tag: fast blues
Confessing The Blues #08
by admin on Mar.29, 2010, under Podcasts
00:10 Welcome to Episode #008 of Confessing the Blues!
01:50 Credits/Corrections
- “Haman Was Rotten (Purim Blues),” our last song from last month, is by Howlin’ Wasserstrom and on Youtube.
- Keith points out that James P. Johnson taught Fats Waller, not Jelly Roll Morton. Just to make it up to you, he shows you “Yellow Dog Blues” off of Classic Piano Blues from eMusic.
05:28 New Music To Check Out
- “I Got a Feelin’” by Big Maybelle and released on The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952-1955 from eMusic.
- “Hoodoo Man” from Ralph Willis, available on Greatest Blues Masters which is on eMusic.
- “Algiers Hoodoo Blues” as done by Billie and Dede Pierce on New Orleans: The Living Legends. Get it on eMusic.
- “Reconsider Baby,” performed by The Mannish Boys. It’s on Shake For Me on eMusic.
19:56 Blues Instrumentals: How Mighty They Are
In response to Kristin Buxton’s email regarding this topic, we respond with a bunch of music we like.
- “Harlem Parlor Blues” by Sammy Price, available on eMusic on Blues Routes: Heroes and Tricksters: Blues and Jazz Works Songs and Street Music.
- “The Bells” done by Memphis Slim on The Folkways Years 1959-1973 on eMusic.
- “Eddie’s Blues” by Eddie Boyd, from the Essential Blues Masters collection on eMusic.
- Johnny Otis doing “Slo Fuse,” available on Johnny Otis: The Essential Recordings on eMusic.
- “Uptown Blues” by Jimmie Lunceford on Sophisticated Lady: The Best of Jimmie Lunceford on eMusic; also available on the Quadomania box set available on Amazon.
- “Careless Love” from The Wolverines Jazz Band of Bern, released on The Wolverines of Bern at 35 which is available on eMusic.
- Gerry Hundt gave us permission to play the full track of “End of the Day Blues” off of Since Way Back which you should go pick up on cdbaby, but is also available on eMusic and Amazon.
44:07 Feedback
- Kate Bramley-Moore gets back with us again about wangling.
- Manu gets back with us about last month’s show, and has some questions about why faster blues doesn’t get played at events more frequently. We discuss it and offer up a few examples of music we like that we want to play. Also, Google translated his voice message into something…different.
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I don’t know. I would let you do, so that’s why. Rachel guys. Thanks.
- “One Kind Favor” by Cephas & Wiggins, available on Flip, Flop, & Fly on eMusic.
- “Three in One Boogie” from Memphis Slim’s Paris Mississippi Blues on eMusic.
- “Come Back to Me Baby Blues” by T-Bone Walker, available on The Very Best Of on eMusic.
- “Sugar Sweet” by Muddy Waters, available on the Properbox King of Chicago Blues on Amazon.
- The video Keith mentioned from the Library of Congress is available here.
87:30 Thanks!
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