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

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