Roots of Jazz and Blues with King Henry - Episode 6 - Country Blues

Jug band, Piedmont, and folk blues from the 1920's through the 1940's.

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Photo: The Memphis Jug Band at the W. C. Handy Park in Memphis, Tennessee

  • Jimmie Rodgers & Clifford Hayes's Old Southern Jug Band - My Good Gal's Gone Blues (1923) @ 2:20
  • The Dixieland Jug Blowers - Please Don't Holler Mama (1927) @ 5:25
  • Memphis Jug Band - Sun Brimmers Blues (1927) @ 8:48
  • Memphis Jug Band - Insane Crazy Blues (1927) @ 12:15
  • Cannon's Jug Stompers - Minglewood Blues (1928) @ 15:59
  • Cannon's Jug Stomper - Walk Right In (1930) @ 19:52
  • Mississippi Sheiks - Cracking Them Things (1930) @ 23:34
  • Mississippi Sheiks - Sittin' On Top of the World (1930) @ 26:59
  • Daddy Stovepipe - Sundown Blues (1924) @ 30:27
  • Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah - The Spasm (1935) @ 33:51
  • Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues (1928) @ 37:46
  • Blind Willie McTell - Broke Down Engine Blues (1931) @ 40:46
  • Blind Blake - Early Morning Blues (1926) @ 44:22
  • Paramount All Stars - Hometown Skiffle (1930) @ 47:49
  • Blind Boy Fuller - Little Woman You're So Sweet (1940) @ 54:51
  • Blind Boy Fuller - Step It Up and Go (1940) @ 57:34
  • Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues (1927) @ 1:01:04
  • Barbecue Bob - Chocolate to the Bone (1928) @ 1:04:25
  • Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe - I Want That (1929) @ 1:08:07
  • Memphis Minnie - Me and My Chauffeur Blues (1941) @ 1:11:20
  • Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues(1928) @ 1:14:35
  • Mississippi John Hurt - Casey Jones Live at 1963 Newport Jazz Festival @ 1:18:00
  • Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan - State Street Rag (1934) @ 1:22:04
  • Howard Armstrong - New State Street Rag (1985) @ 1:25:16
  • Lightnin' Hopkins & Wilson Smith - Katie May (1946) @ 1:27:58
  • Lightnin' Hopkins - Bad Luck and Trouble (1959) @ 1:31:21

 

Airdate: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023