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Blues, Off The Record

Jul 15, 2024 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Music

With Sonny Boy Williamson III

10:01 AM		Mississippi Jook Band Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Blind Roosevelt Graves (1929-1936)
10:04 AM		Papa Lightfoot Jump the Boogie / Mean Ol Train Down Home Stomp
10:10 AM		Blind Roosevelt Graves Sad Dreaming Blues Blind Roosevelt Graves
10:12 AM		Leadbelly Midnight Special Walk Right In
10:16 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:19 AM		Hank Williams & The Drifting Cowboys My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Honky Tonkin (Expanded Undubbed Edition) Mercury Nashville 2021
10:20 AM		W.C. Handy Bunch O Blues W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band (Re-mastered) Inside Sounds 2005
10:25 AM		Tampa Red & His Hokum Jug Band You Can't Come In Tampa Red Vol. 1 (1928-1929) Document Records 1991
10:28 AM		Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Keep A Knockin' (But You Can't Come In) At The Swing Cat's Ball Geffen 1999
10:30 AM		Smiley Lewis I Hear You Knocking Presenting Smiley Lewis Universal Digital Enterprises 1952
10:33 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:34 AM		Little Richard Keep a Knockin' Little Richard Specialty Records 1958
10:36 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:37 AM		"Sparky" Rucker Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning Bound to Sing the Blues
10:40 AM		Weaver & Beasley Bottleneck Blues The Slide Guitar: Bottles, Knives, and Steel
10:43 AM		Blind Blake West Coast Blues The Best of Blind Blake
10:46 AM		Peetie Wheatstraw Give Me Flowers While I'm Living Peetie Wheatstraw 1930-1941
10:48 AM		Etta Baker Lost John One-Dime Blues
10:51 AM		The Spiders You Played the Part The End of an Era
10:55 AM		The Barons My Secret The End of an Era
10:58 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:01 AM		Mississippi Sheiks Someone's Got to Help You Stop and Listen
11:04 AM		The Holy Modal Rounders Bully of the Town 1 & 2
11:07 AM		The Salty Dog Four Ballin' the Jack American Primitive, Vol. II - Pre-War Revenants Revenant 2005
11:10 AM		Roy Schaffer The Matchbox Blues East Virginia Blues
11:14 AM		Harlem Hamfats We Gonna Pitch a Boogie Woogie (Take A) Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 1936 Document Records 1994
11:17 AM		Dixieland Jug Blowers Skip, Scat, Doodle-Do The Great Jug Bands
11:21 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:21 AM		Little Esther and the Robins Mainliner Night Train
11:24 AM		Memphis Minnie Broken Heart Chess Blues Geffen 1992
11:26 AM		Rudy Greene Juicy Fruit Jump Blues Classics
11:29 AM		Howlin' Wolf Hidden Charms The Definitive Collection Geffen 2007
11:31 AM		Elmore James The Sky Is Crying The Best of Elmore James
11:34 AM		Sonny Boy Williamson II Fattening Frogs for Snakes Chicago Blues
11:37 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:37 AM		Barbecue Bob Atlanta Moan Country Blues Bottleneck Guitar Classics
11:41 AM		Blind Willie McTell On the Cooling Board Atlanta Twelve String Rhino Atlantic 2004
11:45 AM		Peg Leg Howell Ball and Chain Blues The Rough Guide to Blues Behind Bars
11:47 AM		Sonny Boy Williamson I Elevator Woman Blue Bird Blues
11:50 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:51 AM		Scrapper Blackwell Kokomo Blues (1928 Version) The Roots of Robert Johnson Yazoo 2004
11:54 AM		Tom Dickson Labor Blues Frank Stokes Dream
11:56 AM		Jim & Bob (The Genial Hawaiians) St. Louis Blues Country Blues Bottleneck Guitar Classics

Chat is archived.

Hello!

Good morning, SBWIII!

Morning

John Bonham's famous drum intro for Led Zep' song "Rock and Roll" was an homage to the drum part on Little Richard's "Keep a Knockin". So glad this show is back on air SBW3!

I can hear that now that you say it Brian!

Can you spell the term you mentioned using at parties please? 😄

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraklausithyron

Plant sang "Rock and Roll" when I saw him in Camden this month

Sadly with a much different drum arrangement

The term was "Paraklausithyron"

Yes! I saw the Willie Nelson Outlaw tour in Hershey Pa a few days later SBW3! And Plant & Krauss were the highlight for me. Such a great band with Stu Duncan on fiddle, mandolin etc and JD McPherson on lead guitar (camera operator just could not figure out where JD was sadly... usual with lead guitar players, cameras fixate everywhere but them often. JD ripping these great parts and they put camera on everyone else just standing there ha).

I agree... a great band. Sadly for Dylan's set there seemed to be no camera operator at all when I saw him.

That was a great version of Rock and Roll they did. New Orleans kinda beat with fiddles. Perfect. Loved it

They had very quiet sound for Dylan and then later Willie too. Dylan was a hoot playing his fave piano led covers. An extension of his radio dj persona from satellite Theme Time Radio hour. And some classics of his own.

THank you for letting me know! It should be fixed. Is it?

Yep all good

@ Brian D Your criticism of the camera work at that Willie Nelson tour with Plant & Krauss rings all too true to me. Being bluegrass fan, I've endured decades of a banjo player putting out some fine picking -- and the camera persons and director just stay on the guitar player swatting rhythm. :-((

@ Sonny Boy Williamson III (host) Ahhhh ... the Holy Modal Rounders, just what/who I need this morning. Thanks!

Wanted to hear a little more fiddle after the Sheiks

Yep Richard rings true at the Bluegrass fests as well. Television broadcasts of live bands as well. They can't figure out who is playing. Wonder if it is confusion of the "stage left / stage right" terms vs our "regular right and left". My wife and I are gearing up for Grey Fox Bluegrass Fest in a matter of days! Weather in Greene County NY has been below heat wave temps of late. No rain scheduled during fest days last I checked... Such a killer line up of all stars this year as usual

Low 80s by day high 50s at night. Good big moon mountain weather looks like

Speaking of great banjo that Dixieland Jug Blowers Skip, Scat, Doodle-Do was really cooking!

@ Brian D Enjoy Grey Fox! It's definitely one of the very finest bluegrass festivals of our time, a real family show with a consistently top talent lineup. Alas, I haven't been to it for some years. Gotta correct that in '25!

@ Sonny Boy Williamson III (host) great fun, Little Esther and the Robins' "Mainliner" tracking in with those endless cool train metaphors. Genius, really. :-))

Oooo this is a good one. The Wolf. Love the guitar parts and the piano

Lafayette Leake on the keys. And of course Hubert Sumlin on the guitar.

Oddly enough, Buddy Guy on the bass

Hubert forever.. wow that tone. Another classic here w Elmore

The hits keep coming

Oh my, Scrapper Blackwell's guitar fills and accidentals (on purpose, of course!) on "Kokomo Blues." That's why the true blues takes a lifetime to learn ...

@Sonny Boy Williamson III (host) Thanks for another fab show and see/hear you on Thursday at noon.

It's great to hear him on his own (as much as I like hearing him with Carr)

To play us out... ? We'll do it live!

Great show SBW3!