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LIVING WITH THE BLUES
This week on American Routes, we’re roaming the highways, byways and crossroads of the Magnolia State, looking for all kinds of blues. We sit down with noted blues scholar Bill Ferris to talk about his lifelong obsession with the music of his home state, and visit with Delta piano blues chanteuse Eden Brent to learn about her music mentor Boogaloo Ames. We set out north for Holly Springs and some Hill Country family jams. Then we head towards home to hang out at Teddy’s Juke Joint, and catch up with the master of the gut-bucket blues, Little Freddie King.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Station Blues Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars
From Senegal to Senatobia, Birdman - Po Black Maddie North Mississippi Allstars
Shake Hands with Shorty, Tone-Cool - Down the Road Apiece Amos Milburn
Blues, Barrelhouse and Boogie Woogie, Capital - SEGMENT: Teddy's Juke Joint
Listen - Walkin' to Louisiana Clifton Chenier
Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie - Louisiana Blues Muddy Waters
The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection: His Best, 1947 to 1955, MCA - Instrumental: Okie Dokie Stomp Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
The Original Peacock Recordings, Rounder - Key to the Highway Jazz Gillum and Memphis Slim
Memphis Slim: The Folkways Years 1959-1973 , Smithsonian Folkways - Baby, Please Don't Go Mose Allison
Retrospective, Columbia - SEGMENT: Eden Brent
Listen - Instrumental: Boogaloo's Boogie Boogaloo Ames
Boogaloo's Boogie, Little Boogaloo - Stop and Listen Blues No. 2 Mississippi Sheiks
Violin Sing the Blues, Old Hat - Country Honk The Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, ABKCO - Johnny B Goode Chuck Berry
The Chess Box, MCA/ Chess - SEGMENT: Little Freddie King
Listen - End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Clarksdale Getaway Charlie Musselwhite
The Well, Alligator - Moaning at Midnight Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf: His Best, MCA - I Ain't Superstitious Jeff Beck Group
Truth, Sony BMG - SEGMENT: Buddy Guy
Listen - Instrumental: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Fred McDowell
Fred McDowell: The First Recordings, Rounder - Long Time Blues Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey
Idle Hours , Prestige - Sad and Beautiful World Charlie Musselwhite
The Well , Alligator - Cross Road Blues Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings, Columbia - Walking Blues Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt, Warner Bros. - Standing at the Crossroads Elmore James
Blues Masters: The Very Best of Elmore James, Rhino - Instrumental: Most Things Haven't Worked Out Junior Kimbrough
You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough, Fat Possum - SEGMENT: Bill Ferris
Listen - You Gotta Move Rev. John Wilkins
American Routes original recording, - Miss Maybelle Kenny Brown
American Routes original recording, - Shimmy She Wobble Rising Star Drum and Fife Band
American Routes original recording, - End Bed: Blues Before Midnight Robert Nighthawk
Mississippi Delta Blues in the 1960's Vol. 1, Arhoolie
