00:13 Welcome to Episode #007 of Confessing the Blues!

01:38 Upcoming Events

• Mile High Blues is March 26-28 in Denver, CO! Twitter feed still right here.
• BluesSHOUT is LOOMING OVER YOU, stomping into Austin April 16-18 2010! *queue Blue Oyster Cult’s “Godzilla”*
• Ottawa Blues Blast erupts into Canada April 23-25!

03:24 New Music To Check Out

• “Hesitation Blues” off of James P. Johnson’s Classic Piano Blues on eMusic.
• “Nickel’s Worth of Liver” done by Edith North Johnson and Henry Brown on the Classic Blues collection on eMusic.
• “Every Night About This Time” from Magic Sam on The Essential Magic Sam: The Cobra and Chief Recordings 1957-1961, as available on eMusic.
• “Lonesome Blues” by Nathan James & Ben Hernandez, released on Make a Change Sometime, available on eMusic and cdbaby.
• “I Got a Woman” as done by Marvin & Turner Foddrell on Classic Appalachian Blues on eMusic.
• If you really, really must…”Night Time is the Right Time” by Elvin Bishop on eMusic.

20:48 The Grammy Recap

The Grammies happened.  And there were winners.  These are the two winning albums and a track from each of them.

• Best Traditional Blues Album: Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, A Stranger Here, available on eMusic and Amazon. Our preferred track this week is “Grinnin’ In Your Face.”
• Best Contemporary Blues Album: The Derek Trucks Band, Already Free, available on Amazon.  Check out “Down Don’t Bother Me” off of this.

27:53 Jelly Roll?  Something Sweet for Valentine’s Day

• “Jelly Jelly” by Lowell Fulson off of Classic Cuts 1946-53, available on eMusic .
• “Jelly Roll Baker” done by Frankie Lee Sims Masterly Texas Blues and released on eMusic .
• “I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of This Jelly Roll,” version done by Lizzy Miles with Sharkey & His Kings of Dixieland on Jazzin’ the Blues 1943-1952, found on eMusic.
• “Jelly Roll Blues” from Louis Armstrong’s Butter and Eggman available on eMusic.

41:49  Work Songs

All of the samples for this section were taken off of Field Recordings vol. 6, recorded by Neil and Alan Lomax in prisons across Texas.  It’s available on eMusic.

61:54  Feedback

• Wendel Ramsey offers up some positive feedback; check out his work here.
• Kristin Buxton has questions about instrumental blues.  Check back with us next month, Kristin…
• Kate Bramley-Moore emailed from Sweden wanting to let us know about a workshop coming up there, with info on the event available here.  The website is entirely in Swedish; Google will turn that into something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike comprehensible English.  Please help us learn how to be more cruel DJs.

67:40 Thanks!

68:36 What the…

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00:00 A Touch of the Holidays

• “Jingle Bells” by Brother Yusef, available for free online here.

00:43 Welcome to episode #005 of Confessing the Blues!

03:19 Upcoming Events

• Lindy Focus is was Dec. 27-31 in Asheville, NC.  Blues electives in the classes.
• Lone Star Championships is ready for you to come compete in all of their competitions Jan. 15-17.
• Enter the Blues DIY Blues Workshop gives you the tools and the manual in Atlanta Feb. 19-21.
• Sweet Molasses Blues rides the wave through Boston Feb. 26-28!
• Mile High Blues rises up March 26-28 in Denver, CO! Twitter feed right here.
  1. Performing at this event are The Shuffletones, who were kind enough to provide us a track to play! “Here I Am” is available on CDBaby.
• BluesSHOUT is EVEN CLOSER, hitting Austin April 16-18 2010! *queue Wagner’s “Flight of the Valkyries”*

11:01 New Music To Check Out

• “Tell Me Baby” from Sonny Terry’s All Alone Blues, on eMusic.
  
• “Crying Blues” by Lowell Fulson, off the collection Music History – Blues which is on eMusic.
• “Song With No Words” by those Asylum Street Spankers on their album Strawberry, as usual on eMusic.
• “Reap What You Sow” as done by Guitar Slim on the album Sufferin’ Mind, also available on eMusic.

22:32 The Grammys, and Why We Care

• Keith and Jonathan discuss why the Grammy award for Best Traditional Blues Album are an indicator of how blues is still relevant to us today and how these awards help show the expectations for future viability of the music, and we describe each of the albums and our impressions of each.

1. A Stranger Here by Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, a contemporary of Woodie Guthrie.  The track we play is “Rising High Water Blues” and is available on Amazon.
2. John Hammond’s Rough and Tough, also on Amazon.  We provide a sample of “Got to Find My Baby” for you.
3. The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band offers up Blue Again; “Looking For Somebody” is the track, the album is on Amazon.
4. Stomp! The Blues Tonight is from Duke Robillard of the Fabulous Thunderbirds; Amazon has “Three Hours Past Midnight” and the rest of the album for order.
5. “Night Watchmen Blues” by Billy Boy Arnold is off of Chicago Blues: A Living History, a compilation of work available on eMusic or Amazon.

44:40 Blues for the Holidays

• “Merry Christmas Darling” by The Fabulous Thunderbirds off of An Austin Rhythm and Blues Christmas on eMusic.
• “Good Morning Blues” from Jimmy Witherspoon and Panama Francis’ Savoy Sultans, from their Definitive Black and Blue Sessions on eMusic.
• “Sugar Rum Cherry” performed by Duke Ellington and his band, on Three Suites off of eMusic.
• “Merry Christmas Baby” by Ramsey Lewis, recorded on The Sound of Christmas which is on eMusic.
• Again, “Merry Christmas Baby,” this time by Lionel Hampton from his Chronological Classics 1950-1951, available on eMusic.
• “Santa” from Lightnin’ Hopkins off of Just Pickin’, on eMusic as usual.
• “Christmas Without Santa Claus” performed by the amazing Victoria Spivey, available on eMusic on the album Woman Blues.
• Roy Milton’s “Christmastime Blues” off of Roy Milton and his Solid Senders, finally, again, on eMusic.
• The final twist on this is Keith’s offering of “(Talking About) Hanukkah Blues” by Howlin’ Wasserstrom, released on Youtube.

68:16 Keith and Jonathan List Their New Year’s Wishes

70:56 Thanks!

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