Blues, Off The Record Mon Jun 10 with Sonny Boy Williamson III on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Hey!! Congrats for everything, sir!

Wow--you've been busy, SBWIII! Congrats on all fronts! Great to hear you again

Thanks to you both! Very happy to be back on the air! :)

@ Sonny Boy Williamson III (host) Welcome back, SBW3rd! And you're hitting out of the park during your return to bat. :-))

@ Sonny Boy Williamson III (host) I'll admit, I'd never heard Tiny Bradshaw's version of "Train Kept A-Rollin'." It's pretty much identical to the 1960s hit version by the Yardbirds (also used in the Antonioni movie Blowup, yes?)

Hi Richard! Thank you -- and I owe you an email response.

There's a good episode of the podcast "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" on "Train Kept A-Rollin"

I've never seen Blow-Up!

Ah, you gave the history during mic break. Very interesting about the pioneering use of distortion in a later recorded cover. Alas, I'm thinking Bradshaw and other Black musicians never copyrighted their versions, leaving the door open to later appropriation -- even though admiring -- by Yardbirds and Aerosmith.

Glad to have you back! I need my blues fix

@ Sonny Boy Williamson III (host) In Blowup, the protagonist, a photographer in swinging 1960s London, wanders into a rock music club. The Yardbirds, in their Jeff Beck era lineup, are on stage. What happens is a very surreal and powerful little episode. I'm pretty sure they're playing "Train Kept A-Rollin'" although it might have been "Smokestack Lightnin' " ... I gotta check -- and see Blowup again!

It's on my to-watch list!

happy first show SBWIII !

Hi DJ Hog and, well, everyone during this glorious Blues, Off the Record Bak on the 'PRB Schedule. :-))

Thanks all!

Heya DJ Hog, Richard, Lance, and Li! The shore is perfect today. Breezy, warm, and not at all crowded.

Blues, OFF the Record, just makes today even better.

@TAndy Hey there! Life's a beach, hope you shore enjoy it. ;-))

Outstanding show. Thanks.

Ah, bliss! The Holy Modal Rounders version of "Fishing Blues." I just loved those guys. The world's first & greatest psychedelic old-timey music band! Peter Stampfel (fiddle) is still around and still doin' it. His latest project: setting philosophical maxims of the ancient Stoics to music. (Really!)

Had no idea about him and the Stoics. Marcus Aurelius meets Henry Thomas.

@ Sonny Boy Williamson III (host) Ha! The Stoics thing is something new. I interviewed Stampfel a few weeks back and afterward he played/sang a few of them. Really wonderful. Hope he records them soon. :-))

HUGE thanks for the show, SBW-III! So glad to have you back on between DJ ABQ and Dan B, Mondays are made for mindful music 😎

Thanks TAndy

Thanks everyone!

Thank YOU!!!

9:59 AM		Blind Roosevelt Graves Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Blind Roosevelt Graves (1929-1936)
10:05 AM		Mississippi Sheiks I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You Stop and Listen Yazoo 1992
10:07 AM		Bob Dylan Blood In My Eyes World Gone Wrong (Remastered) Columbia/Legacy 1993
10:13 AM		Blind Blake Depression's Gone From Me Blues The Best of Blind Blake Yazoo 2000
10:16 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:17 AM		Harlem Hamfats If You Want to Live Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936 Document Records 1994
10:20 AM		Tiny Bradshaw Train Kept A-Rollin' Jump Blues Classics
10:24 AM		Joe Lutcher Rockola California Jump Blues
10:26 AM		Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Lucky Millinder's Orchestra Trouble in Mind Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol 3
10:30 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:31 AM		H-Bomb Ferguson Big City Blues Life Is Hard
10:33 AM		H-Bomb Ferguson Bookie's Blues Life Is Hard
10:36 AM		Slim Gaillard A Tip on the Numbers Laughin' in Rhythm
10:39 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:41 AM		Little Walter Mellow Down Easy Chess Blues Geffen 1992
10:44 AM		Howlin' Wolf Gettin' Old and Grey Chess Blues Geffen 1992
10:46 AM		Albert King Laundromat Blues Born Under a Bad Sign Stax 1967
10:49 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:50 AM		Johnny Fuller Prowling Blues Anthology of the Blues: California Blues
10:53 AM		Ramblin' Thomas So Lonesome Country Blues Bottleneck Guitar Classics 1928
10:56 AM		Tommy Johnson Maggie Campbell Blues Canned Heat Blues: Masters of the Delta Blues Recorded 1928 w/ Charlie McCoy
10:59 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:02 AM		Ma Rainey Black Eye Blues Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
11:05 AM		Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson with Texas Alexander The Risin' Sun Blue Guitars Vol. II 1928 New York
11:08 AM		Muddy Waters I Be's Troubled The Complete Plantation Recordings Geffen 1993 Recorded 1941 in Stovall Mississippi
11:11 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:13 AM		Muddy Waters I Can't Be Satisfied Chess Blues 1948, Chicago, originally for Aristocrat
11:17 AM		Etta James Baby What You Want Me to Do The Best of Chess Blues Live Nashville, 1963
11:20 AM		Earl Hooker Guitar Boogie Chess Blues Guitar
11:23 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:23 AM		Charlie Patton Stone Pony Blues Founder of the Delta Blues
11:26 AM		Booker White Black Train Blues The Complete Bukka White
11:29 AM		The Holy Modal Rounders Fishing Blues 1 & 2 (Remastered) Fantasy Records 1999
11:31 AM		Buddy Woods Muscat Hill Blues The Slide Guitar: Bottles, Knives, and Steel
11:34 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:34 AM		Will Weldon Turpentine Blues Frank Stokes' Dream
11:37 AM		Canon's Jug Stompers Prison Wall Blues The Great Jug Bands
11:40 AM		Rev. J.M. Gates President Roosevelt Is Everybody's Friend Poor Man's Heaven - Blues and Tales of the Great Depression - When the Sun Goes Down Series (Remastered) RCA Bluebird 2003
11:43 AM		The Carter Family The East Virginia Blues When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 10: East Virginia Blues RCA Bluebird 2004
11:47 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:48 AM		Blind Lemon Jefferson Prison Cell Blues Blues Behind Bars
11:51 AM		Alfred Lewis Friday Moan Blues American Primitive, Vol. II - Pre-War Revenants Revenant 2005
11:54 AM		Casey Bill Weldon Go Ahead, Buddy The Roots of Robert Johnson Yazoo 2005
11:57 AM		Joseph Spence Coming In On a Wing and a Prayer Joseph Spence: The Complete Folkways Recordings, 1958 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1992

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