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HIGHWAY 61 WITH B.B. KING
Our Highway 61 feature continues with blues legend B.B. King. With variations on “St. Louis Blues,” and music from Eartha Kitt, Little Feat, Miles Davis, and Robbie Robertson.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: My Home is in the Delta Muddy Waters
Folk Singer, Chess/MCA - Delta Dawn Tanya Tucker
Delta Dawn, Columbia - Rock Island Line Kelly Pace
Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings, Rounder - Night Train to Memphis Roy Acuff
The King of Country Music, ASV - Country Honk Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, Abkco - Looking at the World Through a Windshield Son Volt
Feeling Minnesota Soundtrack, Atlantic - Instrumental: Beale Street Boogaloo Preston Shannon
Deep Blue, Rounder - INTERVIEW: B.B. King
Listen - Why I Sing the Blues B.B. King
The Definitive B.B. King Collection, MCA - I'll Survive B.B. King
Blues on the Bayou, MCA - Beale St. Blues Eartha Kitt
Miss Kitt, To You, RCA - Memphis Slim USA Memphis Slim
Born With the Blues, Jewel - Instrumental: Beale Street Breakdown Jed Davenport
Memphis Masters - Early Blues, Yazoo - Lure of the South Mamie Smith
Stars of the Apollo, Columbia/Legacy - I Wanna Go Back to Dixie Tom Lehrer
Songs and More Songs by Tom Lehrer, Rhino - Dixie Fried Carl Perkins
Perkins & Vincent, TKO - Dixie Chicken Little Feat
Dixie Chicken, Warner Brothers
HOUR two
- St Louis Blues Don Byron
Bug Music, Nonesuch - St. Louis Blues W.C. Handy
Memphis Blues Band, Memphis Archive - St. Louis Blues Machito
Mucho Macho, Pablo - St. Louis Blues Herbie Hancock with Stevie Wonder
Gershwin's World, Verve - Ghost of St. Louis Blues Leon Redbone
Sugar, Private Music - You Came a Long Way From St. Louis Peggy Lee & George Shearing
Beauty and the Beat!, Capitol - How Strong is a Woman Ann Peebles
St. Louis Woman/Memphis Soul, Hi - That's How I Got to Memphis Tom T. Hall
The Hits, Mercury - Instrumental: Bag's Groove Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
So What, Acoustic Disc - In a Silent Way Miles Davis/Bill Laswell
Panthalassa, Columbia - Red Mud Chris Thomas King
Red Mud, Black Top - Instrumental: Sailing on the Robert E. Lee Ray Noble & his New Mayfair Orchestra
Riverboat Shuffle, Memphis Archives - Roll on Mississippi Boswell Sisters
Riverboat Shuffle, Memphis Archives - Lazy River Mills Brothers
The Best of the Decca Years, MCA - Somewhere Down the Crazy River Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson, Geffen - Get Down River Bottlerockets
Leftovers, Doolittle/Mercury - Proud Mary Jr. Walker & the All Stars
Gotta Hold On to this Feeling, Motown - End Bed: Proud Mary The Ventures
Hawaii Five-O/Swamp Rock, One Way
