Small Town Blues: Jeff Tweedy and Jimmy Duck Holmes
Wilco front-man, Jeff Tweedy tells of the impact of his songs on growing up in the blue-collar town, of Belleville, Illinois. Music became his creative outlet in high school and led to founding the seminal Americana band, Uncle Tupelo. We hear from Jeff in his Chicago studio “The Loft” about the emergence of Wilco and the place that making music has in his life, including work with Woody Guthrie’s lyrics and producing records with Mavis Staples. In Bentonia, Mississippi, playing blues and running the Blue Front Cafe, has been a lifetime role for guitarist Jimmy “Duck” Holmes. Duck talks about juke joints and moonshine in the Jim Crow South til now- and how he got the name Duck. We’ll also hear music from jukes, honky-tonks, and nightclubs from Hank Williams and George Jones to Bessie Smith and Mary Lou Williams.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: That's Not the Issue Wilco
Wilco A.M., Reprise
No Depression Uncle Tupelo
No Depression, Rockville Records
Screen Door Uncle Tupelo
No Depression, Rockville Records
Someday Soon Wilco
Being There, Reprise
Sandusky Uncle Tupelo
March 16-20, 1992, Rockville Records
SEGMENT: Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett
Instrumental: Airline to Heaven Billy Bragg and Wilco
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, Nonesuch
SEGMENT: Jeff Tweedy 2
Do Re Mi Woody Guthrie
Folkways: The Original Vision, Smithsonian Folkways
California Stars Wilco and Billy Bragg
Mermaid Avenue, Nonesuch
Instrumental: Train Breakdown Woody Guthrie
My Dusty Road , Rounder
SEGMENT: Jeff Tweedy 3
Wilco (The Song) Wilco
Wilco (The Album), Nonesuch
SEGMENT: Jeff Tweedy 4
Normal American Kids Wilco
Schmilco, dBpm
War on War Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Nonesuch
Country Disappear Wilco
Wilco (The Album), Nonesuch
Closing Bed: Sandusky Uncle Tupelo
March 16-20, 1992, Rockville Records
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Back at the Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith
Back at the Chicken Shack, Blue Note
Chicken Shack Boogie Amos Milburn
Blues, Barrelhouse & Boogie Woogie: 1946-1955, Capitol
God's Own Jukebox Jessie Winchester
Third Down and 110 to Go, Bearsville
Honky Tonkin' Hank Williams
The Original Singles Collection... Plus, Polygram
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Big Maybelle
The Complete OKeh Sessions, OKeh/Epic
Froggy Bottom Jimmy Witherspoon
Goin' to Kansas City Blues, RCA
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer Bessie Smith
The Essential Bessie Smith, Sony Legacy
Instrumental: Froggy Bottom Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams Trio 1944 Roll 'Em, Solo Art
White Lightning George Jones
The Hits, Mercury
Moonshiner Uncle Tupelo
89/93: An Anthology, Columbia/Legacy
Cherry Ball Blues Skip James
The Complete Early Recordings, Yazoo
Hard Time Killing Floor Chris Thomas King
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Mercury
Instrumental: Juke Little Walter
The Essential Little Walter, MCA
SEGMENT: Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
Susie Que Dale Hawkins
Guitar Players Presents Legends of Guitar-Rock: the '50s, Vol. 1 , Rhino
Sister's Coming Home Willie Nelson
The Complete Atlantic Sessions, Rhino
Small Town Talk Bobby Charles
Bobby Charles, Rhino
Closing Bed: Rock House Parts I and II Ray Charles
What'd I Say, Atlantic