Blues, Off The Record Mon May 9 with Sonny Boy Williamson III on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Good morning!

@ Sonny Boy III (host) Good morning! I'm groovin' on all that jazz!

Glad to hear it Richard!

@ Sonny Boy III (host) Say, "Breakfast Feud" was outstanding. Those guys Bennie Goodman, Count Basie and Charlie Christian sounded real, real good. Whatever happened to them?

@ Sonny Boy III (host) JUST KIDDIN'!!! ;-))

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@ Sonny Boy III (host) Seriously ... to hear three true giants of jazz on the same track ... myohmy! ... Moments like that are why I tune into Blues Off The Record. Solid, man, thanks!

It's a great track! Not bad after Bix Beiderbecke with Eddie Lang either...

@ Sonny Boy III (host) Not bad at all! In addition to the fab music, it's good to be reminded these artists knew each other and worked together in their early days.

When Charlie Patton in "Jersey Bull Blues" that his bull "has a horn long as my arm," I'm thinking this is not a "horn" on the bull's head ... ;-))

Don't tell the authorities!

;)

Beautiful day and beautiful music to wake up to, good morning everyone 😁

@ TAndy Yep, the blues we're wakin' up to today include blue skies

After so many days of wind and rain.... high water everywhere. But always remember... the sun's gonna shine in your back door someday!

@ Sonny Boy III (host) The killer guitar playing by Lockwood Jr, Carter and Harris on the last three tracks ... wow ...

I like hearing the early version of this railroad worker tune that Taj Mahal used later for Linin" Track

@ Richard -- Bo Carter is a highly underrated and always inventive guitarist

Love these Leadbelly recordings with the quartet

@ Brian D One album notes writer (I forget his name, sorry) pointed out that Leadbelly's recordings with the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet are among his finest because he had to sing his best to keep up with such a polished and versatile vocal group.

Jimmy Wilson pretty blatantly copying some T-Bone walker licks here

T-Bone Walker gtr playing = so smooth

BESAFERX... ooops

Drum groove and howling answer vocals on this Witherspoon Ain't No Secret wow... great stuff

be safer x • Besa fer X • B Esafe R x • BeSafeRx

Well, another example of church/gospel music being repurposed for secular blues/pop. Jimmy Witherspoon's "It Ain't No Secret" is obviously written off "It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)" , like Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman" started musical life as "I Got A Savior." Must be a multitude of other examples, which SBW3 knows much better than me. Jimmy Witherspoon It Ain't No Secret

Besa Fer. X hmmm could mean "kiss king Ferdinand the 10th"

zactly

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Richard -- the one I talked about last week was "My Babe" and "This Train"

Shares some lyric themes with Someday Baby that last one (Merriwether Things Have Changed)

I haven't seen "Georgia" (starring Jennifer Jason Leigh) since it played in a theater 27 years ago. I'm only reading now that Jimmy Witherspoon acted in it.

Love the spooky "thud " rhythm sound of this era Lightnin'

Maceo's Worried Life Blues is often cited as the inspiration for Someday baby

@ Sonny Boy III (host) Oh, right! "This Train" => "My Babe," I'd forgotten, thanks for reminding me.

Though they may both be off a melody from a folk song... Froggy Went A-Courtin' I think? There are surely other examples too -- secular music rewritten for the church.

@ David Shortell Very interesting, thanks for that.

Love this style of slide

Love that Muddy Chess Box. That was my first time that i could really delve into many diff eras of his output. I was aware of only a few tracks here and there. But when they started putting out those Chess boxsets in the 80s-90s that opened up a whole big world

The chess boxes are great and the Muddy Waters one is the king of them all

I just heard that Judy Henske died on April 27. Some other station is playing a set of her work in tribute.

Rest in Peace!

That movie "Cadillac Records" gave the impression that Muddy never recorded until he moved to Chicago, ignoring his older acoustic recordings made down south.

To be fair those earlier recordings were field recordings. But some were released commercially at the time they were made I believe...

DJ Sonny Boy Williamson III, thoroughly enjoyed the show, especially hearing you *enjoy* the PSA! Many thanks and big cheers and kind regards!

Thanks Malcontent!

Viola!

Loved today's show SBW3!

Thanks everyone!

10:00 AM		Mississippi Jook Band Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Blind Roosevelt Graves
10:02 AM		Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra I'm Coming Virginia 50 Years of Jazz Guitar 1927, NYC. Bix Beiderbecke (coronet); Eddi Lang (guitar)
10:05 AM		Bennie Goodman and His Sextet Featuring Count Basie Breakfast Feud Solo Flight: The Genius of Charlie Christian
10:08 AM		Arnett Cobb Mr. Pogo Atlantic Honkers
10:11 AM		Fats Domino I Want To Walk You Home The Best Of Fats Domino
10:11 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:14 AM		B.B. King Sneakin' Around Sweet Sixteen
10:17 AM		Floyd Dixon Please Don't Go 2120 South Michigan
10:22 AM		Corey Harris with Ali Farka Toure Special Rider Blues The Rough Guide to African Blues
10:25 AM		Charlie Patton Jersey Bull Blues King of the Delta Blues
10:31 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:31 AM		Georgia Cotton Pickers She's Coming Back Some Day Going Up the Country: Georgia Blues
10:34 AM		Robert Lockwood, Jr. Lockwood's Boogie I Got to Find Me a Woman Universal Music Division Decca Records France 1997
10:36 AM		Bo Carter The Law Gonna Step on You Bo Carter No. 2
10:39 AM		Pete Harris Jack O'Diamonds The Rough Guide to Bottleneck Blues
10:41 AM		Leadbelly and the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet Can't You Line 'Em Alabama Boud
10:44 AM		Blind Willie Johnson Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground Praise God I'm Satisfied Yazoo 2005
10:51 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:51 AM		Isaiah Owens Nobody's Fault But Mine You Without Sin Cast the First Stone CaseQuarter 2004
10:53 AM		Jimmy Wilson Blues at Sundown Oakland Blues
10:56 AM		Good Rockin' Charles Ground Hog Blues Low Blows: An Anthology of Chicago Blues
11:02 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:02 AM		Jimmy Witherspoon It Ain't No Secret The Blues Volume Two
11:05 AM		Big Joe Turner Crawdad Hole Greatest Hits Rhino Atlantic 2005
11:08 AM		Maceo Merriweather Things Have Changed Big Maceo Vol. II
11:11 AM		Lightnin' Hopkins Please Help Poor Me Legacy of the Blues Vol. 12
11:15 AM		John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers It Ain't Right Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton Universal Records 1966
11:18 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:19 AM		Jerry Byrd Hilo March Hawaiian Steel Guitar 1920s to 1950s
11:22 AM		Muddy Waters I Can't Be Satisfied The Chess Box Geffen 1989
11:26 AM		Leroy Carr Memphis Town Naptown Blues
11:27 AM		T-Bone Walker Born to Be No Good Original 1945-1950 Performances
11:32 AM		Otis Rush Tore Up Right Place, Wrong Time Shout! 1985
11:33 AM		Memphis Slim Let the Good Times Roll Creole I'll Just Keep On Singing the Blues
11:36 AM		Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Just Before Dawn The Original Peacock Recordings
11:39 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:41 AM		Arzo Youngblood Bye Bye Blues Living Country Blues USA Vol. 9 - Mississippi Moan L+R Records 1982
11:42 AM		Son House County Farm Blues The Legendary 1941-1942 Recordings
11:45 AM		Hammie Nixon Viola Lee Blues Living Country Blues USA, Vol. 4 - Tennessee Blues! L+R Records 1981
11:49 AM		Larry Johnson and Woody Man Bad Feeling Blues These Blues Is Meant to Be Barrelhoused Blind Blake composition
11:51 AM		Clifford Gibson Blues Without a Dime Beat You Doin' It Yazoo 1972
11:55 AM		J.B. Lenoir Tax Payin' Blues Blues Classics: J.B. Lenoir L+R Records 1996
11:58 AM		Bill Williams Pocohantas Low and Lonesome
11:59 AM		Kitty Gray & Her Wampus Cats Baton Rouge Rag 50 Years of Jazz Guitar

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