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September 5, 2015: On the Road Again
I haven't been on the air in a while so it was special fun to do this show. Guess I was a little rusty; sorry for dead air and other glitches. The music was great though. Hope you agree.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Comments | Approx. start time | |||||
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Big Guitars from Texas | Holiday for Hoss | Big Guitars from Texas | Rykodisc | The first 36 seconds are from the previous show. But the Big Guitars intro makes up for it. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||||
Beacon Hillbillies | Hummingbird | More Songs About Love & Murder | East Side Digital | Bluegrass from Boston. From 1994, on East Side Digital. | 0:03:55 (Pop-up) | |||||
Bezos' Hawaiian Orchestra | Pame Sti Honoloulou | Slidin' On The Frets: The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Phenomenon | Yazoo | Everyone loves Hawaiian music. This one if from Athens, Greece, from the 1930s, "a comic/romantic song about the lure of the islands..." The entire CD is filled with great stuff like this, from all over. | 0:08:03 (Pop-up) | |||||
Tom Ze | Ma | The Best of Tom Ze | Luaka Bop | Hot number from Brazil; recorded 1975 but found on an excellent collection compiled by David Byrne | 0:11:01 (Pop-up) | |||||
Dave Douglas | Tied Together | High Risk | Greenleaf | Dave Douglas plays trumpet but the album is pretty eclectic: "americana electronic jazz..." | 0:14:56 (Pop-up) | |||||
Calexico | Dub Latina | Feast of Wire | Quarterstick | Sweet romantic instrumental from our favorite band from Tucson, Arizona | 0:17:36 (Pop-up) | |||||
Doc Watson | Thunder Road/ Sugarfoot Rag | Docabilly | Sugar Hill | Doc has help on this album from Duane Eddy, Junior Brown, Marty Stuart and lots more | 0:23:39 (Pop-up) | |||||
The Doc Watson Family | Ground Hog | The Watson Family | Smithsonian Folkways | From 1963. Doc was born in Deep Gap, NC, and lost his sight as a child. He played guitar as a kid, with his family, and later became one of the most popular players around. | 0:26:43 (Pop-up) | |||||
The Doc Watson Family | Bonaparte's Retreat | The Watson Family | Smithsonian Folkways | 0:28:27 (Pop-up) | ||||||
The Doc Watson Family | Texas Gales | The Watson Family | Smithsonian Folkways | 0:30:12 (Pop-up) | ||||||
King Oliver and his Orchestra | Everybody Does It in Hawaii | Slidin' On The Frets: The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Phenomenon | Yazoo | This New Orleans jazz band had steel player Roy Smeck. Smeck saw Sol Hoopii and caught the Hawaii bug. "Everybody Does It in Hawaii" was co-written by Singing Brakeman Jimmie Rodgers; his version is terrific. | 0:41:31 (Pop-up) | |||||
Four Piece Suit | Jam Up | Ready to Where? | Ocean Music | This Boston-based group does movie theme music and much more. A few of these guys used to be members of Barrance Whitfield's band, the Savages, | 0:38:55 (Pop-up) | |||||
Martinis | Hung Over | It Came from Memphis | Upstart | This collection accompanies Robert Gordon's book of the same name. CD includes Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips, Furry Lewis, Jess Mae Helphill, Othar Turner's Rising Start Fife and Drum Corps and more. | 0:44:26 (Pop-up) | |||||
Lesa Aldridge | Story of My Life | It Came from Memphis | Upstart | This less interesting number snuck in. Sorry. | 0:45:14 (Pop-up) | |||||
Memphis Jug Band | On the Road Again | The Best of Memphis Jug Band | Yazoo | These guys made great music from the 1920s to the 1950s. Their mix of black string band music with jazz, blues and vaudeville still works today. Despite the crude lyrics, it's a sweet tune. Listen to the jug! | 0:46:39 (Pop-up) | |||||
Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks | Right Now Blues | Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks | Tradition & Moderne | In 2009, Muldaur went to Austin to record with Stephen Bruton, Cindy Cashdollar and others. This is the result. Bruton was sick & died shortly after; a much respected and popular session man, he plays excellent guitar and mandolin on this album. RIP | 0:52:18 (Pop-up) | |||||
Jim Kweskin Jug Band | Mornin' Blues | Jug Band Music | Vanguard | I got to hear these guys a lot as a teen in the early 60s, as I got to hang out in the Cambridge folk scene. Muldaur & Kweskin loved that jug band sound from decades before. Bruno Wolf sings vocal on this one. Have I owned this scratchy record all these years? | 0:53:54 (Pop-up) | |||||
Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers | Houston Slide | Old Time Texas String Bands, Volume One | Country Records | Along with the fine fiddle & snappy tune, there's an amazing story here: Albert Hunt played in the Deep Ellum, the rough neighborhood of Dallas, where he was shot and killed in 1931 by W.M. Douglas after Hunt was caught "partying" with Mrs. Douglas. | 0:56:48 (Pop-up) | |||||
Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers | Wake Up Jacob | Old Time Texas String Bands, Volume One | Country Records | Deep Ellum is now an arts district in Dallas but in the first half of the 20th Century it was the red light district and home to an amazing music scene. Black musicians like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith played there. Prince Albert Hunt and his band were white though. | 1:06:50 (Pop-up) | |||||
Fred Ford | Hernando Horn | Beale Street Saturday Night | Omnivore Records | More Memphis, this time from a collection put together by James Luther Dickinson | 1:09:12 (Pop-up) | |||||
Grandma Dixie Davis | Beale Street Blues | Beale Street Saturday Night | Omnivore Records | 1:12:30 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Sleepy John Estes | Big Fat Mama/Liquor Store | Beale Street Saturday Night | Omnivore Records | 1:14:18 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Bar-Kays | Body Fever | As One | Mercury | I found this in a box of records someone gave me; a bit too disco for my tastes. | 1:16:01 (Pop-up) | |||||
Nina Simone | Work Song | My Baby Just Cares For Me | Verve | Nat Adderley wrote the music, Oscar Brown Jr added lyrics. Nina does it up. | 1:20:02 (Pop-up) | |||||
Ed Palermo Big Band | Work Song | Electric Butter | janklandrecording.com | Big Band Blues. These guys played a show on one of the Hudson River piers this summer, almost entirely Butterfield Blues Band & Electric Flag. Excellent. | 1:22:59 (Pop-up) | |||||
Paul Butterfield Blues Band | Blues with a Feeling | The Paul Butterfield Blues Band | Elektra/Asylum | Tune written by Little Walter Jacobs; from the band's first album, with Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, Jerome Arnold, Sam Lay & Mark Naftalin. (Elektra, 1965) | 1:27:14 (Pop-up) | |||||
Electric Flag | Easy Rider | The Best of Electric Flag | Legacy/Columbia | It says the song is 5 minutes but it's only 50 seconds! But a good 50 seconds. | 1:32:22 (Pop-up) | |||||
Electric Flag | Killing Floor | The Best of Electric Flag | Legacy/Columbia | I wonder what Howlin' Wolf thought of this hot cover of his song, with the LBJ intro and all. | 1:39:36 (Pop-up) | |||||
Elvis Costello | Strange | Kojak Variety | Warner Bros. | A Screamin' Jay Hawkins song. Great lyrics, hard to hear on this version. | 1:43:19 (Pop-up) | |||||
Cassandra Wilson | Sign of the Judgement | True Detective Soundtrack | Harvest | Haunting song. Those True Detective folks sure have good taste. Didn't they also use the original version by the McIntosh County Shouters in the show? | 1:45:43 (Pop-up) | |||||
Barrance Whitfield & the Savages | Adjunct Street | Under the Savage Sky | Bloodshot | Go Barrance! | 1:49:37 (Pop-up) | |||||
Charenee Wade | I Think I'll Call It Morning | Offering: The Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson | Motema | Nice vocals, good band. She's playing in NYC this week; check your local listings | 1:54:17 (Pop-up) | |||||
Handsome Family | Far From Any Road | True Detective Soundtrack | Harvest | 2:03:50 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Solomon Burke | Soul Searchin' | Don't Give Up on Me | Fat Possum Records | From his Grammy-winner album-- "Don't Give Up On Me"-- from 2002 on Fat Possum Records. Solomon Burke was one of many soul singers with a country music sensibility. He died on his way to a gig in Amsterdam in 2010. | 2:06:46 (Pop-up) | |||||
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires | Dumplin's | Uptown Top Ranking | VP Music Group | Ska from the island of Jamaica | 2:10:43 (Pop-up) | |||||
Mamadou Kelly | Djamila | Djamila | Clermont Music | Title cut to a nice new album. MK was down here at the station a year or two ago; I was the entire audience for his excellent live set on Rob's show | 2:13:31 (Pop-up) | |||||
Daymé Arocena | Madres | Nueva Era | Havana Cultura | So great to hear fresh new stuff coming out of Cuba. I can't wait to visit! | 2:20:03 (Pop-up) | |||||
Amy Winehouse | Some Unholy War | Back to Black | Universal | Saw the movie: So sad, such pipes | 2:25:25 (Pop-up) | |||||
Leon Russell | Masquerade | The Best of Leon Russell | EMI-Capitol | New movie-- "A Poem is a Naked Person"-- about Leon. I hope I get to see it one of these days. | 2:37:59 (Pop-up) | |||||
Kasey Chambers | Oh Grace | Bittersweet | Sugar Hill | New albums: Good songs, great band | 2:38:25 (Pop-up) | |||||
Spanic Boys | Cry Baby Cry | Early Spanic Boys | Rounder | Back in the 90s, I chased these guys down to Asbury-- to get them on the air. Didn't work out. But I sure like their music. Father & son duo. | 2:42:17 (Pop-up) | |||||
Rockin' Dopsie & the Zydeco Twisters | Lafayette Two-Step | Louisiana Music | Atlantic | Dopsie-- pronounced Doopsie-- was one of the best of the Zydeco players of southern Louisiana. Born Alton Rubin, he was more popular in Europe than in the U.S. | 2:45:46 (Pop-up) | |||||
Slavic Soul Party | Ya Ya | Bigger | Barbes | A unique take on the Lee Dorsey New Orleans classic | 2:55:13 (Pop-up) |
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