Damn Right... Muddy and Buddy Got the Blues!
2003 has been designated by Congress as the “Year of the Blues,” and American Routes focuses on two of the genre’s heavyweights: the late Muddy Waters, from Rolling Fork, MS, and the very much alive Buddy Guy, formerly of Baton Rouge, LA. First, a portrait of Muddy from his band members James Cotton, Willie Smith and Bob Margolin, with biographer Robert Gordon. Then Buddy Guy, who played guitar with Waters as a young rising star on the influential 1964 LP “Muddy Waters: Folk Singer,” and who has been regarded as one of finest players of electric city blues for years. We’ll talk with Guy about his extraordinary life, his most recent CD “Blues Singer,” an acoustic tribute to the ’64 Muddy album, and his present-day Chicago nightclub devoted to the blues.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Fast Boogie Little Walter
The Essential Little Walter, MCA
Got My Mojo Workin' Muddy Waters
The Best of Muddy Waters: The Millennium Collection, MCA
Feel Like Going Home Muddy Waters
Folk Singer, MCA
Everyday I Have the Blues B.B. King
King of the Blues, MCA
Blues is a Woman T-Bone Walker
The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954, EMI
I Got A Right To Sing the Blues Billie Holiday
The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve
Potato Head Blues Louis Armstrong
The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings, Sony
All Blues The Rebirth Marching Jazz Band
New Orleans Brass Bands: Down Yonder, Rounder
Instrumental: I Can't Be Satisfied Bill Frisell
Have A Little Faith, Nonesuch
Little Red Rooster The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones, Now, ABKCO
I'm the Wolf Howlin' Wolf
The Chess Box, MCA
INTERVIEW: Muddy Waters, and biographer Robert Gordon
Instrumental: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Pickin' On The Rolling Stones
Pickin' On The Rolling Stones, CMH
SEGMENT: Muddy Waters Pt.2
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Lucy Mae Blues Buddy Guy with Eric Clapton
Blues Singer, Silvertone
Low Down Blues Whistler & His Jug Band
Ruckus Juice & Chitlins, Vol.1: The Great Jug Bands, Yazoo
Blues Stay Away From Me Doc Watson
Memories, Sugar Hill
Lovesick Blues Charley Pride
In Person, Koch
Home of the Blues Johnny Cash
The Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family
Memphis Chuck Berry
His Best, Volume 1, MCA
Operator Grateful Dead
American Beauty, Warner
Instrumental: Hastings Street Boogie John Lee Hooker
Graveyard Blues, Specialty
Airport Blues Silas Hogan
Trouble: The Best of Excello Masters, Excello
Hold that Plane Buddy Guy
The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Vanguard
INTERVIEW: Buddy Guy
Catfish Blues Jimi Hendrix
Blues, MCA
Instrumental: Tempo's Boogie Lionel Hampton
The Lionel Hampton Story: Flying Home, Proper
Jesus Will Fix It For You Sonny Treadway
None But the Righteous: The Masters of Sacred Steel, Rope-A-Dope
Bedside of a Neighbor The Dixie Hummingbirds
Thank You for One More Day, MCA
Yearnin' Oliver Nelson
The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Impulse
Blues in the Night Bobby Bland
Turn On Your Love Light, MCA
End Bed: Jumpin' At Apollo Illinois Jacquet
Jumpin' At Apollo, Delmark