Subjects: documentaries about the story of the blues, famous artists, styles, cities like Chicago, Memphis and New Orleans, American blues festivals and blues festival tour in Europe. Record Row, an avenue in Chicago lined with independent record companies. A remastered edition of a 1966 CBS TV Festival series featuring - Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Sunnyland …
In this column: the songs - St. James Infirmary, Crapshooters Blues, Pneumonia Blues, clothing and more - straight-lace shoes, box-back coat, Stetson hat (homburg), standing pat, double breasted, pallbearers, 'dig my grave with the ace of spades', bootleggers, buggy riders, coupla tens, hoodoo wagon, The Charleston, black (the wearing of...), BVD's, Louis Armstrong, Blind Willie …
In this column: The Great 78 project, 78 rpm records, Vocalion Records, Henry Thomas - Bull Doze Blues, Canned Heat - Going up the country, Tommy Johnson, Canned Heat Blues, Sterno The Great 78 Project! Listen to this collection of 78rpm records, cylinder recordings, and other recordings from the early 20th century. These recordings were …
In this column: Weevil, Boll Weevil, The Katy, The Santa Fe, The Mule, Brook Benton, Bessie Tucker, Taj Mahal, Big Joe Williams Weevil in Can't get no grinding (Muddy Waters) and Boll Weevil (Lead Belly). See an earlier episode.The wheat weevil / grain weevil in "Can't get no grinding" (Muddy Water) is a beetle that …
In this column: Shorty George Blues, Shorty George, Sippie Wallace, Lead Belly, John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers, Shorty George Snowden, Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, Mailed in the air, Monkey Man, Alan Lomax, James Baker, Mallory Line Shorty George BluesBeulah "Sippie" Wallace recorded "Shorty George Blues" in 1923. It is like "Fore Day Creep" and …
In this column: Mississippi River flood of 1927, also called Great Flood of 1927, flooding of the lower Mississippi River valley in April 1927, one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. More than 23,000 square miles (60,000 square km) of land was submerged, hundreds of thousands of people were …
