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August 31, 2013: Eh La Bas
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Big Guitars from Texas |
Bulldoggin' Boogie
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0:00:00 (Pop‑up) | |
Frank Hutchinson |
KC Blues
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Amazing slide guitar, from "White Country Blues" collection. Hutchinson was one of the best, from West Virginia, recording in 1929 in NYC | 0:02:24 (Pop‑up) |
Lemuel Turner |
Way Down Yonder Blues
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More white southern slide guitar, this one off a new collection of "old time" music. The album is "Turn Me Loose" (Tompkins Square, 2013) | 0:05:18 (Pop‑up) |
Norman Blake |
Spanish Fandango
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This guy can play. From a 2002 CD on Rounder: "Old Ties". | 0:08:56 (Pop‑up) |
Blind Blake |
Blind Arthur's Breakdown
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Everyone says this guy was the man, the one who everyone else learned slide guitar from! Also, 1920s-- on Yazoo Records. | 0:12:34 (Pop‑up) |
Blind Blake |
Dry Bone Shuffle
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A duet. Too cool not to do another. | 0:15:35 (Pop‑up) |
Sonny Landreth |
Zydeco Shuffle
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More slide, a double dose from modern-day Louisiana. Sonny is the best of the Cajun pickers around these days! | 0:18:17 (Pop‑up) |
JB Hutto |
New Hawk Walk
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On a Bullseye Blues collection of slide stuff-- has Elmore James, George Thorogood, Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker. The masters. | 0:24:22 (Pop‑up) |
Music behind DJ: Norman Blake |
0:28:30 (Pop‑up) | ||
John Fahey & Orchestra |
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
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0:33:22 (Pop‑up) | |
Dr John |
Eh La Bas
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From "N'awlinz, Dis Dat or D'udda" (EMI, 2004) | 0:35:55 (Pop‑up) |
Paul Sanchez |
At the Foot of Canal Street
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From the 4-CD box: "Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens" (Shout Factory, 2004) | 0:38:29 (Pop‑up) |
Zachary Richard |
Bayou Pon Pon
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I forgot how good this guy is; I interviewed him back in the 80s. At the Lone Star Cafe in NYC. | 0:42:20 (Pop‑up) |
Joe Hall & Mitch Reed |
Flames of Hell One Step
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0:46:11 (Pop‑up) | |
Percy Babineaux & Bixy Guidry |
I Am Happy Now
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More music from the 1920s, this one from Acadiana. From "Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Recordings" (Tompkins Square, 2013) | 0:49:04 (Pop‑up) |
Butch Hancock & Marce Lacouture |
Perfection in the Mud
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Two old pals: Butch is an amazing West Texas songwriter, Marce grew up in Austin but moved to Lafayette, Louisiana in the 1980s to do Cajun music. From "Yella Rose" (Rainlight Music, 1985) | 0:52:00 (Pop‑up) |
Music behind DJ: Stefan Grossman |
Bottleneck Serenade
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0:57:11 (Pop‑up) | |
David Ball |
Miss the Mississippi and You
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1:03:54 (Pop‑up) | |
Hot Club of Cowtown |
Bill Balls in Cowtown
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Bob Wills cover | 1:06:56 (Pop‑up) |
Doug Jernigan |
Buddy's Boogie
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You have to check this one out: A tribute album to steel guitarist Buddy Emmons. Terrific collection on Warner Bros, includes Duane Eddy, Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Albert Lee and others. | 1:09:12 (Pop‑up) |
Albert Lee |
Rainbows All Over Your Blues
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Alright, another Buddy Emmons cover-- from a pretty good guitar player himself. | 1:11:46 (Pop‑up) |
JJ Cale |
Soulin'
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RIP, JJ Cale. | 1:15:19 (Pop‑up) |
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages |
Hangman's Token
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New album from Barrence: "Dig the Savage Soul" (Bloodshot, 2013) | 1:18:02 (Pop‑up) |
Four Piece Suit |
Jam Up
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Some of these guys used to be Savages, Barrence Whitfield's backup band. This combo plays superb instrumental music. Are they still around? | 1:21:24 (Pop‑up) |
Bombino |
Amidinine
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Tuareg guitar, from a new album produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys: "Nomad" (Nonesuch, 2013) | 1:32:20 (Pop‑up) |
Bombino |
Tenere
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Another one, this time from an earlier album: "Agadez" on Modibe/Zero Gravity from 2011. | 1:36:58 (Pop‑up) |
Vieux Farka Toure |
Diack So
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A more urban sound, from Mali. | 1:40:06 (Pop‑up) |
Mary Halvorsen Septet |
Butterfly Orbit (no. 32)
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Contemporary NYC jazz, from "Illusionary Sea" on Firehouse Records. | 1:45:13 (Pop‑up) |
Harvey Scales & the 7 Sounds |
Get Down
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From 1967, on a collection of Harvey Scales hits: "Love-Itis" | 1:50:42 (Pop‑up) |
Hacienda Brothers |
What's Wrong With Right
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Lotsa tribute this morn. This one from "A Road Leading Home: songs by Dan Penn" (Ace, 2013) | 1:53:21 (Pop‑up) |
King Salami & The Cumberland Three |
Yosemite Sam
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1:56:44 (Pop‑up) | |
Dave Van Ronk & the Hduson Dusters |
Dink's Song
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Looking forward to the new Coen Bros movie, said to be based on the life of Dave Van Ronk. | 2:06:20 (Pop‑up) |
Dave Van Rok |
St. Louis Tickle
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He can play guitar too. | 2:10:00 (Pop‑up) |
Martin & Neill |
Tear Down the Walls
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Vince Martin & Fred Neill were a Greenwich Village duo in the early 60s. This is the title cut to their Elektra album. | 2:14:23 (Pop‑up) |
Mumford & Sons |
I Will Wait
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I hear these guys are a big deal these days. Marcus Mumford is on the bill for a Town Hall show related to the Coen Bros movie. | 2:16:10 (Pop‑up) |
Tom Rush |
Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
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Tom Rush playing tonight in Rockport, Mass; I used to go into Cambridge when I was a kid in high school to see him play! Long time ago. | 2:20:52 (Pop‑up) |
Bill Keith |
No Expectations
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Keith & Rooney were another Cambridge folk group from the 60s; this album is from 1976, on Rounder. | 2:24:39 (Pop‑up) |
Robbie Fulks |
Long I Ride
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New CD is "Gone Away Backward" (Bloodshot, 2013) | 2:32:41 (Pop‑up) |
Calexico |
AZ Room/Bees & the Flies/Crystal Frontier
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Three songs-- two shorties-- from Calexico's "Aerocalexico" album from 2001. | 2:36:05 (Pop‑up) |
Lorette Velvette |
Oh How It Rained
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2:41:12 (Pop‑up) | |
Emmylou Harris |
Guess Things Happen That Way
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A Cowboy Jack Clement tune, best done by Johnny Cash. Jack Clement died recently; check out Laura Cantrell's excellent memorial a few weeks ago. | 2:45:23 (Pop‑up) |
Billy Joe Shaver |
When the Word was Thunderbird
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Somebody just put out a complete collection of Bill Joe's tunes, originally on Columbia. All great song, 31 in all, with son Eddie playing some mean guitar. | 2:49:19 (Pop‑up) |
Bill Keith |
Caravan
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Bluegrass take of a jazz classic. Nice. | 2:50:53 (Pop‑up) |
Listener comments! | |
Sat. 8/31/13 6:14am
Brown:
bleary-eyed but present. | |
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Sat. 8/31/13 6:15am
beavoux:
Spanish Fandango originally from his album "Back Home in Sulphur Springs" A great collection. |
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Sat. 8/31/13 6:19am
beavoux:
Blind Blake mostly fingerpicked ragtime not much slide that as far as I know. That was Blind Lemon Jefferson. |
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Sat. 8/31/13 6:20am
beavoux:
Best slide player alive. Says Clapton |
Sat. 8/31/13 6:25am
Brown:
Real bones playing on that Blake tune. | |
Sat. 8/31/13 6:26am
burpage:
just wunderful --- who needs coffee --- two more cups of this please | |
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![]() A Fill-in ! ...Always glad to be exposed to some more Sonny Landreth. I think of him as like the Jeff Beck of slide (somebody said that to me I'm sure) - in that it comes down to his touch & what he's doing is kinda mysterious !... |
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Sat. 8/31/13 6:39am
beavoux:
I saw Fahey in small club in Pasadena in 1981 the small audience kept bringing beers up to him and he was quite inebriated by the end of the evening. |
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![]() ...& - edumacting myself @ his wiki : en.wikipedia.org... ...I see that was probably not a very good thing... |
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![]() ...'edumacating'...should spell that right!...caffeine time... |
Sat. 8/31/13 6:56am
Stuart Rose:
Hey, this some song here by Butch Hancock and Mae Lacouture. Great lyrics and a tune Dylan could have written in one of his eras. | |
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Sat. 8/31/13 7:21am
SmokinJ:
Mornin' Steve! Let's Rock! |
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![]() - yeah, B.W. & Savages bringin' it. |
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![]() Good morning Steve and all. I was supposed to see Vieux Farka Touré in a couple of weeks, but he canceled his appearance |
Sat. 8/31/13 7:48am
Sea:
At work trying to catch pieces of the show on three different radios. What I'm catching sounds great. | |
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Sat. 8/31/13 7:52am
SmokinJ:
Hey! Harvey's a home town hero! |
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![]() morning all! SmokinJ, you're up early...or late. |
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![]() a few Dave van ronk albums featured on the front counter of the record store last weekend, plus someone on fmu played a cover of his this week. the universe tells me I need more van ronk in my life |
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![]() ...from what little I've read - Fred Neill was the singer & scenester looked up to by people like even Tim Buckley - ??... |
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Sat. 8/31/13 8:21am
SmokinJ:
Mornin' Mike E! I'm an early bird :) |
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Sat. 8/31/13 8:22am
SmokinJ:
Dave Van Ronk is a hero of mine.. 8-) |
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![]() @SmokinJ, whats a good album to get? |
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Sat. 8/31/13 8:36am
SmokinJ:
They're all pretty good. I like his earlier stuff: 1964: Just Dave Van Ronk 1966: No Dirty Names 1967: Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters |
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Sat. 8/31/13 8:39am
SmokinJ:
I had the opportunity to see him in 2002. He played solo and was greeting people and selling his own CD's at the door. Fantastic guitar player! People forget that. Two months later he was dead. :( |
Sat. 8/31/13 8:49am
Stuart Rose:
Van Ronk was kind of the Alexis Korner of the Village folk scene. poor guy bat himself up with drink. | |
Sat. 8/31/13 8:51am
Stuart Rose:
Yikes! I meant "beat" himself up with drink. | |
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Sat. 8/31/13 8:52am
SmokinJ:
Kind, gentle man.. If only our vices were equally kind. |
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![]() - what a great mix of choices from Genre(s) I'm just not going to get exactly elsewhere. - Thx Mr. Krinsky! |
Sat. 8/31/13 8:55am
Steve Krinsky:
Sorry I didn't get to jump in on comments. Thanks for checking in; email me at stevek@wfmu.org if you want to keep the chat going. | |
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Sat. 8/31/13 8:55am
SmokinJ:
Thanks Steve. Nice job.. |
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