"Rocks in My Bed" by Allen Toussaint. Blues, Off The Record Mon Aug 19 with Sonny Boy Williamson III on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

The Tommy Johnson song I was thinking of was "big road blues"

It's just all so wonderful.

R. Crumb's 12 page Charlie Patton biography can be read here:

https://www.celticguitarmusic.com/patton1.htm

Thank you!

Is there any connection between Peetie Wheatstraw and the Rudy Ray Moore movie "Petey Wheatstraw"?

There seems to be some disagreement about whether the musician originated the name or whether he adopted a black folklore name that already was in circulation

He was credited as "The Devil's Son-in-Law" or "The High Sheriff in Hell" on his records

Short answer -- probably a connection!

There's a whole chapter about Louis Prima in Nick Tosches' "Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll". A New Jersey rockabilly trio called the Junk Rumblers plays the song his orangutan character sang in the 1967 animated Disney feature “The Jungle Book”.

Thanks for the reference to Tosches' book!

Good morning, folks.

Morning!

The first version I ever heard of that Willie Dixon composition “You Shook Me” was on the Jeff Beck Group’s “Truth” album”. The next year, those second-rate Jeff Beck Group imitators Led Zeppelin released their own version.

For my money Muddy's version remains definitive!

“Built For Comfort” is one of the songs I remember Willie Dixon sang in his TV special I saw in the 80’s.

I've never seen the special!

Thanks for the show!!

Thanks for listening!

10:01 AM		Mississippi Jook Band Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Blind Roosevelt Graves
10:04 AM		Albert King Born Under A Bad Sign Born Under A Bad Sign (Mono) Craft Recordings 2019
10:09 AM		Blind Roosevelt Graves Guitar Boogie Blind Roosevelt Graves
10:12 AM		Mississippi Sheiks Stop and Listen Blues Stop and Listen Yazoo 1992
10:15 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:16 AM		Charlie Patton Dry Well Blues Founder of the Delta Blues
10:20 AM		Eddie Lang Church Street Sobbin' Blues Blue Guitars Vol. II Piano: Frank Signorelli
10:22 AM		Peetie Wheatstraw These Times Peetie Wheatstraw Document Records 1994
10:26 AM		Clarence Williams' Blue Five Wild Cat Blues R. Crumb's Heroes of Jazz, Blues, and Country w/ Sidney Bechet
10:28 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:30 AM		Papa Charlie Jackson Shake That Thing The Blues, Vol. 1
10:33 AM		Jim Jackson Kansas City Blues Pt. 1 & 2 The Blues
10:39 AM		Peg Leg Howell Rolling Mill Blues The Blues, Vol. 2
10:45 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:45 AM		Louis Prima Jump, Jive, an' Wail Jump Blues Classics
10:49 AM		Slim Gaillard A Ghost of a Chance Laughing in Rhythm
10:53 AM		Harlem Hamfats New Oh Red! Harlem Hamfats Vol. 1 Document Records 1994
10:56 AM		Lowell Fulson Reconsider Baby The Blues Vol. 4
11:00 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:01 AM		Little Joe Blue Dirty Work Goin' On Chess Blues
11:04 AM		Muddy Waters You Shook Me The Best of Chess Blues
11:06 AM		Johnny Shines So Glad I Found You Chess Blues Guitar
11:12 AM		John Brim Be Careful What You Do Chess Blues
11:12 AM		Howlin' Wolf Built for Comfort The Definitive Collection Geffen 2007
11:16 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:16 AM		Elizabeth Johnson Be My Kid Blues American Primitive, Vol. II - Pre-War Revenants Revenant 2005
11:19 AM		William Harris Bull Frog Blues American Primitive, Vol. II
11:22 AM		Furry Lewis Furry's Blues Canned Heat Blues: Masters of the Delta Blues
11:26 AM		Son House Walking Blues Delta Blues Joe Martin, Mandolin; Leroy Williams, Harmonica; Willie Brown, guitar.
11:32 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:32 AM		Bo Weavil Jackson You Can't Keep No Brown Country Blues Botttleneck Guitar Classics
11:36 AM		Blind Willie McTell Mr. McTell Got the Blues Statesboro Blues RCA Bluebird/BMG Heritage 2003
11:38 AM		Skip James How Long "Buck" The Complete Early Recordings 1930 (1994 Remastered) Yazoo 1994
11:41 AM		Sonny Boy Williamson Hoodoo Hoodoo Blue Bird Blues
11:44 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:45 AM		Allen Toussaint Rocks in My Bed Visions of the Blues w/ Rhiannon Giddens
11:49 AM		Ma Rainey Booze and Blues Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
11:53 AM		Charles Brown Drifting Blues The Blues, Vol. 3
11:56 AM		Little Walter Juke His Best: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection Geffen 1997

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