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Blues, Off The Record

Aug 22, 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Esoterica fills in

hey

10:02 AM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
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10:06 AM		Elmore James The Sky Is Crying Elmore James Dust My Broom: Electric Blues Classics Kings Road Music 2011
10:09 AM		Alger "Texas" Alexander Levee Camp Moan Blues Alger "Texas" Alexander Before the Blues, Vol. 3: The Early American Black Music Scene V/A Yazoo 1996 Alger "Texas" Alexander (September 12, 1900 – April 18, 1954) Alger "Texas" Alexander was an American blues singer from Jewett, Texas. Some sources claim that he was the cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins, but no direct kinship has been established. It has also been asserted that he was the uncle of the Texas country blues guitarist Frankie Lee Sims.
10:12 AM		Washboard Sam All By Myself Washboard Sam Washboard Sam Vol. 1 (1935-1936) From wiki: Brown's date and place of birth are uncertain; many sources state that he was born in 1910 in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, but the researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc suggest that he was born in 1903 or 1904, in Jackson, Tennessee, on the basis of Social Security information. Reputedly, he maybe the half-brother of Big Bill Broonzy.
10:15 AM		Robert Lockwood, Jr. Sweet Woman from Maine Rough Treatment - The J.O.B. Records Story, Vol. 1 (Disc 1) V/A West Side 2006 Lockwood, Jr. recorded for Chess and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s.
10:17 AM		Bessie Smith Careless Love Bessie Smith The Best of Bessie Smith Columbia/Legacy 2015 A recording by Bessie Smith titled "Careless Love Blues" was very popular in 1925. "Careless Love" is a traditional song, with several popular blues versions. It has been called a "nineteenth-century ballad and Dixieland standard" (wiki)
10:20 AM		Blind Willie McTell Searching the Desert for the Blues When the Sun Goes Down: Statesboro Blues RCA Bluebird/BMG Heritage 2003 https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/blind-willie-mctell-1898-1959/ Article by Peter Guralnick: https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-91-winter-2015/searching-the-desert-for-the-blues
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10:31 AM		Lee Wiley Sweet and Low Down Sings the Songs of George & Ira Gershwin & Cole Porter Audiophile 1988
10:33 AM		Lee Wiley 'S Wonderful Sings the Songs of George & Ira Gershwin & Cole Porter Audiophile 1988
10:35 AM		Willie Mabon Seventh Son Willie Mabon The Chess Blues-Rock Songbook Geffen 1997
10:39 AM		Peetie Wheatstraw Truthful Blues Peetie Wheatstraw Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 2 1934-1935 Document Records 1993 This is apparently the only known photograph of Peetie Wheastraw. The only known photograph of American blues singer, Peetie Wheatstraw (1902 - 1941), circa 1935. He is holding a National tricone resonator guitar. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
10:42 AM		Jimmy & Walter Easy Jimmy & Walter Sun Records: The Blues Years, 1950-1958 (Disc 4) V/A Charly Records 2006
10:45 AM		Tarheel Slim & Little Ann It's Too Late Tarheel Slim & Little Ann It's Too Late / Don't Ever Leave Me - Single Fire Records 1959
10:47 AM		Geeshie Wiley Last Kind Words Blues Geeshie Wiley American Epic: The Collection Columbia/Legacy 2017 Geeshie Wiley was an American country blues singer and guitar player who recorded six songs for Paramount Records, issued on three records in April 1930.
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10:54 AM		Bukka White Bukka's Jitterbug Swing High Fever Blues River Records 2008 Released in 1940.
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11:03 AM		Big Bill Broonzy Key to the Highway Trouble In Mind Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2000
11:06 AM		Eddie Lang Eddie's Twister Eddie Lang Jazz Guitar Virtuoso Yazoo 1989
11:09 AM		Lee Wiley Someone to Watch over Me Sings the Songs of George & Ira Gershwin & Cole Porter Audiophile 1988
11:13 AM		Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries Prisoners Levee Camp Holler Mississippi and Lousiana State Penitentiaries Prisoners Negro Prison Blues and Songs V/A Legacy International 1989 https://www.loc.gov/collections/songs-of-america/articles-and-essays/musical-styles/traditional-and-ethnic/traditional-work-songs/
11:14 AM		Chico Hamilton For Mods Only Chico Hamilton The Dealer GRP 1966
11:19 AM		Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers New Orleans Stomp Johnny Dodd's Black Bottom Stompers Satchmo: The Decca and Verve Years 1924-1967 V/A Verve Reissues 2020
11:22 AM		Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated Every Day I Have the Blues (Live) Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated At the Cavern (Live) Start Entertainments Limited 1963 Korner gives a shoout out to Herbie Goins. Hubert Leroy "Herbie" Goins (February 21, 1939 – October 27, 2015) was an American rhythm & blues singer. He worked mainly in England in the 1960s, notably with Alexis Korner and then as the leader of Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers (or Nightimers). He later continued his career based in Sezze, Italy.
11:26 AM		The Rolling Stones Lies The Rolling Stones Some Girls (Remastered 2011) Polydor Records 1978
11:29 AM		The Rolling Stones Loving Cup The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street (2010 Remaster) Polydor Records 1972
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11:39 AM		Charlie Watts & The Danish Radio Big Band Elvin Suite, Pt. 1 (feat. David Green & Peter Jensen) [Live at Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen / 2010] Charlie Watts Meets the Danish Radio Big Band (Live at Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen / 2010) Universal Music Division Decca Records France 2017
11:49 AM		Art Blakey In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning Art Blakey Caravan Riverside 1961
11:53 AM		Joe Venuti Apple blossoms Joe Venuti Violin Jazz 1927 To 1934 Yazoo 1989
11:56 AM		John Coltrane Naima John Coltrane Giant Steps (Expanded Edition) Rhino Atlantic 2005 Giant Steps is a studio album by the jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in January or February 1960 through Atlantic Records.

Chat is archived.

hey

good morning

Goodmorning! What a pleasant surprise on such a beautiful morning! You've made my day!

Good morning, Inspector! Aw thanks! Nice to see ya here:)

Maybe today’s show should’ve started with score from “Play Misty For Me” instead of “Dirty Harry”. The former of those 1971 Clint Eastwood movies is more blues relevant, as it includes footage of Johnny Otis playing at the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival.

Who is that lady singing with Willie?

here is an article: https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-91-winter-2015/searching-the-desert-for-the-blues

i can't find the female vocalist

You just reminded me of the movie “Sweet and Lowdown” which I haven’t seen since it opened in 1999. There are over 30 songs in its soundtrack but “Sweet and Lowdown” is not one of them!

i love thta film

that

i just recall sean penn repeating the line, "i made a mistake!" heartwrenching

I don’t think the 1977 Rudy Ray Moore comedy has anything to do with this Petey Wheatstraw.

ha never saw that one

love the poster

"petey wheatstraw" the devil's son-in-law is the tagline haha

Hey y'all, diggin today's episode of the sonic blues 😎

Agree with the_dude. Great set of music to kick off this monsoon morning here in San Diego

hey kelly and dude, thanks:)

Right! Love this stuff!

hey bike!

glad you are enjoying

Indeed! Some of these artists I know, but didn't know Geeshie. Awesome

sweet!

This is very great work listening

love it, emily!

maybe i should play some classic worksongs?

YES!

Loved that Big Bill Broonzy

yeah that was great

camp holler giving me chills

Though unrelated, that Bukka White song reminds me of the 1968 Joseph Dolan Tuotti play “Big Time Buck White”. During the removal of his champion title for draft evasion, Muhammed Ali starred in a Broadway musical version that flopped!

https://hesherman.com/2016/06/04/see-muhammad-ali-in-his-broadway-musical-buck-white/

interesting, david!

This is the Chico Hamilton song that Mick Taylor from the Stones got some lines from Larry Coryell's guitar solo and used them in Can't You Hear me Knockin

one of my fave songs, bri, too

sticky fingers is one of my fave albums ever

Yeah both great. Mick T loved that Chico lp and Larry's playing on it (Gabor Szabo plays on some bonus tracks on a later release). Love that period of Chico Hamilton in the 60s where he had an amazing lineup (Coryell or Szabo, Charles Lloyd etc).

great info, thanks, bri

and an l.a. guy, chico.

great thing about the Stones -- their blues influences

yup! and i am about to play the Stones now!

Jazz influence in that case but yes, blues especially w/the Stones

Right on. Love the Stones, but often their blues predecessors did it better

true on both counts, bri and bike r

Ronnie and Keith ripping up the guitars on Lies whew.

oh yeah

sweet virginia?

i wish - i would have to edit a word out. i can do that by tuesday's show! 5-8 p.m.

haha

so silly.... the big ol Philly rock stations played that and much worse unedited for years. The word shit will make your kids go crazy and rebel! BEWARE OF WORDS.....

that's the word?!

scraped right off their shoes, yep

The Stones play in Jersey City on October 4: https://instagram.com/p/DNQbVOetW_j

Shit!

The Stones live have been on my bucket list for years. Might make it up there

I think he was joking of sorts... there is a band without the word Rolling in there apparently

looks like a cover band?

at wfmu

ah. I didn't look at the 'gram page

Damn this is beautiful

agree, kelly;)

:) meant a regular smile not a wink lol

;)

@ Esoterica (host) Ace job today, thanks! I really enjoyed the Charlie Watts big band jazz track.

thanks richard!

haha kelly

Thanks so much DJ Esoterica, this was a great morning of music :)

thanks, everyone! stay tuned for jerry gordon!

"I Got The Hots For Charlie Watts": https://theexbats.bandcamp.com/album/i-got-the-hots-for-charlie-watts

Late to the party, hello and goodbye

hey rob!

nice, david, cool song!

enjoy your day, everyone!

Thanks for not playing Blueshammer’s "Pickin' Cotton Blues", Esoterica. Seymour really hates that song.

ha! okay

who is seymour again? your cat?

Steve Buscemi’s character in the movie version of “Ghost World”.

that is right! i spaced - great film

Really great show, thx!

Thanks, Bike!

bye all!