Living With the Blues
This week on American Routes, we’re roaming the highways, byways and crossroads of the Magnolia State, looking for all kinds of blues. We sit down with noted blues scholar Bill Ferris to talk about his lifelong obsession with the music of his home state, and visit with Delta piano blues chanteuse Eden Brent to learn about her music mentor Boogaloo Ames. We set out north for Holly Springs and some Hill Country family jams. Then we head towards home to hang out at Teddy’s Juke Joint, and catch up with the master of the gut-bucket blues, Little Freddie King.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Station Blues Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars
From Senegal to Senatobia, Birdman
Po Black Maddie North Mississippi Allstars
Shake Hands with Shorty, Tone-Cool
Down the Road Apiece Amos Milburn
Blues, Barrelhouse and Boogie Woogie, Capital
SEGMENT: Teddy's Juke Joint
Walkin' to Louisiana Clifton Chenier
Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie
Louisiana Blues Muddy Waters
The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection: His Best, 1947 to 1955, MCA
Instrumental: Okie Dokie Stomp Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
The Original Peacock Recordings, Rounder
Key to the Highway Jazz Gillum and Memphis Slim
Memphis Slim: The Folkways Years 1959-1973 , Smithsonian Folkways
Baby, Please Don't Go Mose Allison
Retrospective, Columbia
SEGMENT: Eden Brent
Instrumental: Boogaloo's Boogie Boogaloo Ames
Boogaloo's Boogie, Little Boogaloo
Stop and Listen Blues No. 2 Mississippi Sheiks
Violin Sing the Blues, Old Hat
Country Honk The Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, ABKCO
Johnny B Goode Chuck Berry
The Chess Box, MCA/ Chess
SEGMENT: Little Freddie King
End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Clarksdale Getaway Charlie Musselwhite
The Well, Alligator
Moaning at Midnight Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf: His Best, MCA
I Ain't Superstitious Jeff Beck Group
Truth, Sony BMG
SEGMENT: Buddy Guy
Instrumental: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning Fred McDowell
Fred McDowell: The First Recordings, Rounder
Long Time Blues Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey
Idle Hours , Prestige
Sad and Beautiful World Charlie Musselwhite
The Well , Alligator
Cross Road Blues Robert Johnson
The Complete Recordings, Columbia
Walking Blues Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt, Warner Bros.
Standing at the Crossroads Elmore James
Blues Masters: The Very Best of Elmore James, Rhino
Instrumental: Most Things Haven't Worked Out Junior Kimbrough
You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough, Fat Possum
SEGMENT: Bill Ferris
You Gotta Move Rev. John Wilkins
American Routes original recording,
Miss Maybelle Kenny Brown
American Routes original recording,
Shimmy She Wobble Rising Star Drum and Fife Band
American Routes original recording,
End Bed: Blues Before Midnight Robert Nighthawk
Mississippi Delta Blues in the 1960's Vol. 1, Arhoolie