Delta Daily Life
A musical return to that fount of styles called the blues as we take a musical tour of the Mississippi Delta and also visit kinfolk in Memphis, Chicago, and Oakland. We’ll hear about blues roots and routes in conversations with singer Little Milton, Delta Deejay Early Wright—famous for his “snake alerts”—and at a Clarksdale, Mississippi, barbershop where stropping the razor to a beat is an art form.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Crossroads Hound Dog Taylor
Genuine Houserocking Music, Alligator
Polk Salad Annie Tony Joe White
The Best of, Warner
Highway 61 Blues Jack Kelley & his S. Memphis Jug Band
Violin, Sing the Blues for Me, Old Hat
Jug Band Music Lucinda Williams
Ramblin', Smithsonian Folkways
Down Home Girl The Coasters
50 Coastin Classics, Rhino
INTERVIEW: Blues Barber - Wade Walton
Instrumental: Sad Hours Little Walter
His Best, MCA/Chess
Death Letter Son House
Blues masters, Vol.7, Rhino
Death Letter Cassandra Wilson
Visions of Jazz: The First Century, Blue Note
Can't Hardly Stand It Charlie Feathers
Get With It, Revenant
It's Bad You Know RL Burnside
Come On In, Verve
INTERVIEW: Little Milton
Lookin' For My Baby Little Milton
The Sun Masters, Rounder
Ol' Man River Gene Ammons
Gene Ammons: Jug, Fantasy
Ol' Man River Kenneth Spencer w/full orchestra & chorus
from 1946 revival of Showboat
My Home is in the Delta Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Alone & Acoustic, Alligator
Mississippi Delta Blues Jimmie Rodgers
Last Sessions, Rounder
End Bed: Delta Bound Duke Ellington
Orchestra featuring Ivie Anderson Presents Ivie Anderson, Atlantic
HOUR TWO
Long John Lightning and Group
Afro-American Spiritual, Work-Songs And Ballads, Rounder
Our Father Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
Jubilation Vol.2, Rhino
Down in Mississippi Pops Staples
Peace to the Neighborhood, PointBlank
Oh Freedom Hollis Watkins
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, Smithsonian-Folkways
Change Is Gonna Come Otis Redding
Otis! - The Definitive Redding, vol. 1, Rhino
Instrumental: Call Him By His Name Glenn Lee
Sacred Steel, Arhoolie
Natchez Mississippi Blues Lewis Brozeville Five
The Jive is Jumpin: Vocal Groups, WestSide
The Natchez Burnin' Howlin' Wolf
The Chess Box, MCA
Love in Vain Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, ABKCO
Honky Tonk Women Ike & Tina Turner
The Best Of, EMI
INTERVIEW: Early Wright
West Memphis Blues Sonny Boy Williamson II
King Biscuit Time, Arhoolie
Roll Over Beethoven Carl Perkins
The Classic, Bear Family
Instrumental: Sunshine Twist (You are My Sunshine) Jellyroll Kings
Rockin' The Juke Joint Down, Earwig
Catfish Blues Taj Mahal/Toumani Diabate
Kulanjan, Hannibal
Crawdad Hole Jessie Mae Hemphill
She-Wolf, Highwater/HMG