Playlist for Sunday, March 29, 2009
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Glenn Valliere
Listen
1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers
2. Don't Start Me Talkin' - Sonny Boy Williamson
3. Keep A Talkin' Baby - Gene O-Quinn
4. When My Baby Double Talks To Me - Merle Travis
5. Everybodys Talkin' About Sadie Green - The Memphis Jug Band
6. Loose Talk - Carl Smith
7. I'm The Talk Of The Town - Reno & Smiley
8. Let The Whole World Talk - The Johnson Mountain Boys
9. I Know What You're Talking About - The Louvin Brothers
10. You've Been Talkin' In Your Sleep - Rose & The Maddox Brothers
11. Mama Talk To Your Daughter - J.B. Lenoir
12. She Never Spoke Spanish To Me - Joe Ely
13. I Don't Really Want To Talk To You - Dan Reeder
14. You Ain't Talkin' To Me - Charlie Poole
15. Ain't Talkin' - Bob Dylan
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
#28: Sing Me Back Home
Playlist for Sunday March 22, 2009
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Jocelyn Maurice
Listen
1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers
2. I'm Goin' Home - Charley Patton
3. Goin' Home - The Boswell Sisters
4. I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters
5. I'm Goin' Home - Hank Williams
6. Sing Me Back Home - Keith Richards
7. My Long Journey Home - The New Lost City Ramblers
8. Rank Stranger - Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
9. Goin' Home Blues - Wayne Hancock
10. Let Me Go Home, Whiskey - Snooks Eaglin
11. Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) - Loretta Lynn
12. Bring It Home To Grandma - The Mississippi Mud Mashers
13. Take Me Back To My Mississippi River Home - John Hartford
14. Ridin' Home - The Sons Of The Pioneers
15. Any Old Time - Gene Autry
16. The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home - Greg Brown
Hosted by Greg Denton with guest Jocelyn Maurice
Listen
1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers
2. I'm Goin' Home - Charley Patton
3. Goin' Home - The Boswell Sisters
4. I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters
5. I'm Goin' Home - Hank Williams
6. Sing Me Back Home - Keith Richards
7. My Long Journey Home - The New Lost City Ramblers
8. Rank Stranger - Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
9. Goin' Home Blues - Wayne Hancock
10. Let Me Go Home, Whiskey - Snooks Eaglin
11. Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) - Loretta Lynn
12. Bring It Home To Grandma - The Mississippi Mud Mashers
13. Take Me Back To My Mississippi River Home - John Hartford
14. Ridin' Home - The Sons Of The Pioneers
15. Any Old Time - Gene Autry
16. The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home - Greg Brown
Thursday, March 12, 2009
#27: Big Wind - Harmonica & The Deep Moan Tone
Playlist for Sunday March 15, 2009
hosted by Greg Denton with guest Kyle Fitzsimmons
Listen
1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers
2. Fattening Frogs For Snakes - Sonny Boy Williamson
3. Juke - Little Walter
4. High Compression - James Cotton
5. Big Wind - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
6. Big Road Blues - Thom Roberts & Carlos Del Junco
7. Sylvie - C.R. Avery
Guelph audiences may be aquainted with C.R. Avery from his stint backing the slam poetry duo T.O.F.U. who were a sensation at the Hillside Festival a few years ago, or from his ecstatic performances at the Carden Street Cafe over the past couple of years (one with his string quartet that felt as much like a stadium show frenzy, with Sprinsteen-like energy, as a small restaurant performance). An extradordinarily communicative and charismatic performer combining spoken-word with grade-A musical chops, C.R. Avery has been touring with and receiving glowing endorsements from folks like Tom Waits, Utah Phillips, Billy Bragg & Charlie Musselwaite. Cut and pasted from C.R.'s website "bye-oh" here's what he has to say about his unique harmonica style: "I started honing my harmonica playing by mimicking James Cotton's phrases, Jimmy Reed's high tone, and Sonny Terry's locomotive and country hoots. Little Walter was the poet, had the song craft and band leader instinct to go with the harp. But Sonny Boy Williamson's "Dont Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand's Doin'" was what I wanted to grasp. He and John Mayall solo, unaccompanied, armed only with the harp, growls, finger snap, whispered cadence and foot stomp, had me listening over and over. One hand on the ten-holed tit, the other hand's fingers on the stereo clit, trying to get the deep moan tone."
8. Five Planets In Harmonica Convergence - Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues
Roosevelt University trained musicians Corky Siegel and Jim Schwall (Siegel/Schwall Blues Band) were an important part of the 1960s young blues revivalists along with the likes of Paul Butterfield and John Mayall. Based out of South-Side Chicago they were the house band at Pepper's Lounge for an extended period with just about every important Chicago blues musician around sitting in with them on a regular basis (such as Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Billy Boy Arnold, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Magic Sam, Otis Spann, Bo Diddley, Lazy Lester and Sam Lay, to name a few). Recording for Vanguard from 1966 - 1974 (signed by Sam Charters), they also had the distinction of being the first ever blues band to perform with a symphony orchestra (The San Francisco Symphony conducted by Seiji Ozawa - A recorded version of "Three Pieces For Blues Band And Orhestra" was released by Polydor records in 1973). After Siegel/Schwall disbanded in 1974, Corky Siegal undertook a few projects, Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues among them - an ensemble that included string quartet, tabla drums, piano & featured harmonica.
9. Cash On The Barrelhead - Mike Stevens & Raymond McLain
10. In The Pines - Mike Stevens & Raymond McLain
11. Canada Day - The Mike Stevens Project
12. Just Like A Woman - Bob Dylan
Live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, May 17, 1966 - The famous recording from Bob Dylan's 'gone-electric' tour, originally (and wrongly) bootlegged as the "Royal Albert Hall" concert. The first half of each concert in this tour opened with an acoustic solo set accepted reverently by a closely attentive audience. The second electric band set gets all the historic attention with the famous booing and stomping disruptions and someone yelling "Judas!" at Dylan from the audience along with Dylan's own antics, intransigence, and audible instructions to the band to "play it fuckin' loud!" as they kicked off Like a Rolling Stone. But the first set is remarkable in itself - incredibly delicate, fluid, beautiful and entrancing - and, I suppose, gives some sense of what his acoustic devotees may have felt they were losing on at least the aesthetic level (though much of the protest had as much to do with a perception that Dylan was abdicating his political and social responsibilities). Just Like A Woman was the second last song of the opening acoustic set that night, and though there is varied opinion about the merits of Dylan's harmonica prowess, this song ends with a gorgeous, narrowly drawn, melodic swirl of a solo that should at least give some naysayers a moment of considerable pause.
hosted by Greg Denton with guest Kyle Fitzsimmons
Listen
1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers
2. Fattening Frogs For Snakes - Sonny Boy Williamson
3. Juke - Little Walter
4. High Compression - James Cotton
5. Big Wind - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
6. Big Road Blues - Thom Roberts & Carlos Del Junco
7. Sylvie - C.R. Avery
Guelph audiences may be aquainted with C.R. Avery from his stint backing the slam poetry duo T.O.F.U. who were a sensation at the Hillside Festival a few years ago, or from his ecstatic performances at the Carden Street Cafe over the past couple of years (one with his string quartet that felt as much like a stadium show frenzy, with Sprinsteen-like energy, as a small restaurant performance). An extradordinarily communicative and charismatic performer combining spoken-word with grade-A musical chops, C.R. Avery has been touring with and receiving glowing endorsements from folks like Tom Waits, Utah Phillips, Billy Bragg & Charlie Musselwaite. Cut and pasted from C.R.'s website "bye-oh" here's what he has to say about his unique harmonica style: "I started honing my harmonica playing by mimicking James Cotton's phrases, Jimmy Reed's high tone, and Sonny Terry's locomotive and country hoots. Little Walter was the poet, had the song craft and band leader instinct to go with the harp. But Sonny Boy Williamson's "Dont Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand's Doin'" was what I wanted to grasp. He and John Mayall solo, unaccompanied, armed only with the harp, growls, finger snap, whispered cadence and foot stomp, had me listening over and over. One hand on the ten-holed tit, the other hand's fingers on the stereo clit, trying to get the deep moan tone."
8. Five Planets In Harmonica Convergence - Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues
Roosevelt University trained musicians Corky Siegel and Jim Schwall (Siegel/Schwall Blues Band) were an important part of the 1960s young blues revivalists along with the likes of Paul Butterfield and John Mayall. Based out of South-Side Chicago they were the house band at Pepper's Lounge for an extended period with just about every important Chicago blues musician around sitting in with them on a regular basis (such as Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Billy Boy Arnold, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Magic Sam, Otis Spann, Bo Diddley, Lazy Lester and Sam Lay, to name a few). Recording for Vanguard from 1966 - 1974 (signed by Sam Charters), they also had the distinction of being the first ever blues band to perform with a symphony orchestra (The San Francisco Symphony conducted by Seiji Ozawa - A recorded version of "Three Pieces For Blues Band And Orhestra" was released by Polydor records in 1973). After Siegel/Schwall disbanded in 1974, Corky Siegal undertook a few projects, Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues among them - an ensemble that included string quartet, tabla drums, piano & featured harmonica.
9. Cash On The Barrelhead - Mike Stevens & Raymond McLain
10. In The Pines - Mike Stevens & Raymond McLain
11. Canada Day - The Mike Stevens Project
12. Just Like A Woman - Bob Dylan
Live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, May 17, 1966 - The famous recording from Bob Dylan's 'gone-electric' tour, originally (and wrongly) bootlegged as the "Royal Albert Hall" concert. The first half of each concert in this tour opened with an acoustic solo set accepted reverently by a closely attentive audience. The second electric band set gets all the historic attention with the famous booing and stomping disruptions and someone yelling "Judas!" at Dylan from the audience along with Dylan's own antics, intransigence, and audible instructions to the band to "play it fuckin' loud!" as they kicked off Like a Rolling Stone. But the first set is remarkable in itself - incredibly delicate, fluid, beautiful and entrancing - and, I suppose, gives some sense of what his acoustic devotees may have felt they were losing on at least the aesthetic level (though much of the protest had as much to do with a perception that Dylan was abdicating his political and social responsibilities). Just Like A Woman was the second last song of the opening acoustic set that night, and though there is varied opinion about the merits of Dylan's harmonica prowess, this song ends with a gorgeous, narrowly drawn, melodic swirl of a solo that should at least give some naysayers a moment of considerable pause.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
#26: The No Sleep Blues
Playlist for Sunday, March 8, 2009
Hosted by Greg Denton
A particularly Un-Godly Hour this week given the clocks will be turned ahead one hour for Daylight Savings Time.
Listen
1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers
2. No Sleep Blues - Wayne Hancock
3. Sleepy Time Blues - Jess Hooper With The Daydreamers
4. Sleepy Eyed John - Ole Ramussen
5. Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister - Charlie Poole
6. A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed - "Little" Jimmy Dickens
7. I Walk In My Sleep - Berna Dean
8. Sleep Talking Blues - Ma Rainey
9. You've Been Talkin In Your Sleep - Rose & The Maddox Brothers
10. (Last Night) I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep - Hank Williams
11. I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open - Dolly Parton
12. Mother's Not Dead She's Only Sleeping - Charlie Monroe
13. Sleep On Darling Mother - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
14. Will the Roses Bloom (Where She Lies Sleeping) - Flatt, Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys
15. Sleep Baby Sleep - Jimmie Rodgers
16. Sleep - The Hot Club Of Cowtown
17. Get To Sleep - Bob Holmes
18. Wake O Wake You Drowsy Sleeper - Dyad
Hosted by Greg Denton
A particularly Un-Godly Hour this week given the clocks will be turned ahead one hour for Daylight Savings Time.
Listen
1. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt & His Texas Ramblers
2. No Sleep Blues - Wayne Hancock
3. Sleepy Time Blues - Jess Hooper With The Daydreamers
4. Sleepy Eyed John - Ole Ramussen
5. Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister - Charlie Poole
6. A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed - "Little" Jimmy Dickens
7. I Walk In My Sleep - Berna Dean
8. Sleep Talking Blues - Ma Rainey
9. You've Been Talkin In Your Sleep - Rose & The Maddox Brothers
10. (Last Night) I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep - Hank Williams
11. I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open - Dolly Parton
12. Mother's Not Dead She's Only Sleeping - Charlie Monroe
13. Sleep On Darling Mother - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
14. Will the Roses Bloom (Where She Lies Sleeping) - Flatt, Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys
15. Sleep Baby Sleep - Jimmie Rodgers
16. Sleep - The Hot Club Of Cowtown
17. Get To Sleep - Bob Holmes
18. Wake O Wake You Drowsy Sleeper - Dyad
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