Blues, Off The Record Mon May 2 with Sonny Boy Williamson III on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

g'morning!

Good morning!

Jesse!

Get yer kazoos out and follow along folks

Checking out pictures of his one of a kind "fotdella" contraption.

can you drop a link?

Oh i just did Google image search for Jesse Fuller.

Louis Ford with the mandolin on this track

Yeah this is cool! The real down home deal

howdy!

Howdy Esoterica!

nice to see you this weekend:)

good morning, bri

yeah it was great to see (and in many cases meet for the first time!) so many DJs!

true! hey what year is the elmore james?

looks like May 1960 in NYC for Fire records at Beltone Studios

Eddie Kirkland had done a version on Fortune Records in Detroit before him. I think James version is the basis for the Allman Brother's version on Live at Fillmore

Thanks for the info!

@ Sonny Boy III (host) G'morning to you & all. Glad the pledge drive was so successful! :-))

hi richard, good morning.

Thanks Richard! It's all thanks to devoted listeners like you and Brian, plus great DJs like Esoterica!

@ Sonny Boy III (host) Thanks for the opening set of country blues. This past Saturday nite in NYC I saw Dom Flemons "The American Songster" with special guest, banjo wizard Tony Trischka. Dom as you know has been a leader in the Black old timey/country string band music revival. And his blend of showmanship & scholarship leaves you delighted & educated.

Very cool Richard! What was the venue?

@ Sonny Boy III (host) So Black old-timey music has been on the soundtrack of my life LOL the last few days. It's really really good stuff, thanks for playing it here.

Love John Hurt

@ Sonny Boy III (host) The venue for the Flemons/Trischka show was a very historic one, as a matter of fact: the former Thalia Theatre at 95th & Broadway which was a legendary mecca for seeing great foreign and US indie cinema. It now has a new life as the "Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater" within the adjacent Symphony Space theater center.

Dom Flemons solo lps are some of the best things that have come out in folk in past few decades. Saw him play with Carolina Chocolate Drops a few times when he was a member of that band.

we did a drive give away of his black cowboys cd some years ago

The big sound Dom and the few musicians get out of just a fife, drum & maybe 1-2 other instruments. Really booms

@ Sonny Boy III (host) And mark your calendars (and buy your tickets), gang -- Dom Flemons will perform Labor Day weekend at the 50th Annual Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival in Woodstown, NJ. This well-run, high-quality & family-friendly festival always features a non-bluegrass but notable roots music-related act, and this year it's The American Songster.

@ Brian "D" for Donor! Exactly right, Brian D.

One of the best festivals ever ! A very comfortable, easy & affordable fest with the best acts young, old, in between and a few from all over the world

@ Brian "D" for Donor! and Sonny Boy III (host) ... Yes indeed! And Dom Flemons is just one of a killer lineup at the DelVal Festival this year. Check it out:

Oops! Here's the DelVal BG Fest link: https://delawarevalleybluegrass.org/

I've seen so many greats there Doc Watson, Del McCoury, Jim and Jesse, Ralph Stanley, Ricky Skaggs, Bob Paisley and family, Mike Cross , Norman Blake, Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen , Doyle Lawson, JD Crowe, Hot Rize, Tim O'Brien, Seldom Scene, Peter Rowan, Marty Stuart etc etc too many more... and bands from Canada, Italy , Sweden and more...

@ Brian "D" for Donor! At the 2016 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival the "bluegrass-friendly" act was Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen as a mandolin/guitar-playing and duet-signing twosome. You'll recall their finale was an acoustic duet arrangement of "Eight Miles High" the psychedelic anthem by the Byrds rock band (of which Hillman was a founding member on bass). When Chris played Roger McGuinn's famed electric guitar12-string solo note for note ON THE MANDOLIN I almost fell out of my lawnchair!

But now, friends & neighbors ... BACK TO THE BLUES!

Sounds great! I missed a few years in the past decade or so. I saw Hillman Pedersen duet in early 2000s tho. Great time. Herb is a master harmony singer and acoustic rhythm gtr player as well as banjo. Saw him fill in for Jerry in the Old and in the Grey reunion at Grey Fox

Salem County NJ

Across the road from Cowtown Rodeo n Market. Rodeo country New Jersey

Exactly. They did not seem to mind the electric instruments during the PB and other sets ha

Amazing show today SBWIII Broonzy interview is exceptional !

Thanks Joe!

Thx so much for this great show, SBIII!

Thanks for listening!

@ Sonny Boy III (host) Thanks muchly for playing the Butterfield live track from Newport Folk Festival 1965. And for pointing out the intro remarks that the Butterfield band had backed other acts that festival before Dylan (and apparently without controversy).

Was that Mayall track live? Where was it recorded?

Would like to know what other acts they backed... Wald's book would probably tell us

@ Sonny Boy III (host) ... controversy about use of electric guitars and drums. I'm of the opinion thatg most people who booed Dylan with Butterfield were objecting because Bob's vocals were drowned out. A volunteer usher who was there told me that too.

Great show SBW3!

perfect ending !!

Joseph Spence!

On the sides of the audience, Dylan could be heard much better and no one was booing.

@ David Shortell -- the LP does not provide that information unfortunately

Thanks all! See you next week.

10:02 AM		Mississippi Jook Band Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Blind Roosevelt Graves
10:03 AM		Jesse Fuller San Francisco Bay Blues Fantasy Blues Sampler
10:05 AM		K.C. Douglas High Water Rising The Country Boy
10:10 AM		Muddy Waters & Son Simms Four Rosalie The Complete Plantation Recordings Geffen 1993
10:13 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:15 AM		Little Sam Davis Goin' Home Blues Down Home Delta Blues 1949-1952
10:17 AM		Carl Martin Crow Jane Rough Guide to the Best Country Blues You've Never Heard World Music Network 2018
10:20 AM		Frank Stokes I've Got Mine R. Crumb's Heroes of Jazz, Blues, and Country
10:23 AM		John Hammond My Mama Always Talked To Me American Primitive, Vol. II - Pre-War Revenants Revenant 2005
10:26 AM		East Texas Serenaders Minneola Rag R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country
10:30 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:30 AM		Albert Hunter Without Rhythm Look for the Silver Lining
10:33 AM		Joe Turner Well Oh Well Roll 'Em
10:36 AM		Elmore James Done Somebody Wrong The Best of Elmore James
10:39 AM		Big Maybelle Ring Dang Dilly Blues, Candy & Big Maybelle Savoy 1958
10:41 AM		Wynonie Harris Mr Blues Jumped the Rabbit The Blues, Vol. 3
10:44 AM		Harlem Hamfats Hamfat Swing Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936 Document Records 1994
10:48 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:49 AM		The Kings of Rhythm Goodbye Baby (Going on Down the Line) Ike Turner and His Kings of Rhythm
10:53 AM		Sonny Boy Williamson Mellow Chick Swing Blue Bird Blues
10:56 AM		Mississippi John Hurt Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home / Boys, You're Welcome Last Sessions Vanguard Records 1991
11:00 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:08 AM		Big Bill Broonzy & Studs Turkel Experiences / This Train / Mule Ridin' His Story
11:17 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:20 AM		Little Walter My Babe Willie Dixon - The Chess Box
11:23 AM		Mary Butler Mary Blues Mississippi Girls (1928-1931) Rosie Mae Moore (?), Bo Carter (?) violin, Charlie McCoy, mand; Walter Vincson, guitar.
11:26 AM		Mance Lipscomb Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night Mance Lipscomb, Vol. 6
11:32 AM		Dr. Ross Shake 'Em on Down His First Recordings
11:38 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:39 AM		Roosevelt Sykes Too Smart Too Soon The Meek Jewel Records 2006
11:42 AM		Paul Butterfield Blues Band Born in Chicago Bloomfield: A Retrospective
11:47 AM		John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Your Funeral and My Trial Through the Years Written by SB Williamson II; Green, guitar, Mayall, vox, harmonica, organ; McVie bass; Dunbar, drums
11:50 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:54 AM		J.B. Hutto Shy Voice Slidewinder
11:59 AM		Joseph Spence Jump In the Line The Complete Folkways Recordings, 1958 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1992

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