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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