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  • 2009
    • December
      • John Henry - Fiddlin' Arthur Smith
        12/20/09


        John Henry
        retold by
        S. E. Schlosser

        Now John Henry was a mighty man, yes sir. He was born a slave in the 1840's but was freed after the war. He went to work as a steel-driver for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, don't ya know. And John Henry was the st

      • Orange Blossom Special by Fiddlin' Arthur Smith
        12/19/09

        Smith was born and raised on a farm near Bold Springs, Tennessee. He learned to play the fiddle at an early age, his first influence being the fiddlers Grady Stringer and Walter Warden. He married in 1914 at the age of sixteen. Initially he began performing at local dances and fiddlers' c

      • Wabash Cannonball Roy Acuff
        12/15/09


        The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated sometime in the late nineteenth century. Its first documented appearance was on sheet music published in 1882, titled "The Great Rock Island Route" and credited to J. A. Rof

      • City of New Orleans - Johnny Cash
        12/14/09


        City of New Orleans is a folk song written by Steve Goodman, describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans in bittersweet and nostalgic terms. Goodman got the idea while traveling on the train of that name for a visit to his wife's family. He performed the song for Arlo Guthri

      • Murder in the Red Barn - Tom Waits
        12/13/09


        The trees are bending over The cows are lying down The atumn's taking over You can hear the buckshot hounds The watchman said to Reba the loon Was it pale at Manzanita Or Blind Bob the raccoon? Pin it on a drifter They sleep beneath the bridge One plays the violin And sleeps inside

      • Gillian Welch with John Paul Jones at Bonnaroo 2007
        12/13/09


        Welch was born in Manhattan and was adopted when she was three days old. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of four. On her eighth birthday she wished for and got a guitar and lessons, and learned soon to play the guitar. Studying at the University of California, Santa Cruz,[3] Welch di

    • September
      • David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Gamblin' Man
        09/16/09


        Beginning with a stirring African folk song (Zélié performed by Angélique Kidjo) the roots are established and rapidly swell into a trunk thickened by the hardships of the Great Depression (Gamblin' Man performed by David 'Honeyboy' Edwards) and the oppression of segregati

    • May
      • crossroads homesick james
        05/03/09


        Homesick James (30 April 1910[1] - 13 December 2006) was a black American blues musician. He is believed to have been born John William Henderson, but later used the name James A. Williamson and was sometimes referred to as Homesick James Williamson.
        Contents

        * 1 Life

    • April
      • hound dog taylor, little water- hideaway blues
        04/04/09


        BIOGRAPHY:
        When Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor sat down on his battered folding chair, slipped his steel slide onto his six-fingered left hand and tore into one of his foot-stomping shuffles, supercharged boogies or a searing slow blues, he had one thing in mind--ma

      • Crow Jane Skip James
        04/04/09


        Crow Jane Skip James

        Crow Jane Crow Jane, don’t you hold your head too high
        Someday, baby you know you got to die

        You got to lay down and.
        You got to die…
        You got to….

        You know I wanna buy me a pistol,
        Want me 40 rounds of ball
        Sh

    • March
      • Jimmy Rogers " Rock This House"
        03/01/09


        Jimmy Rogers was born James A. Lane in Ruleville, Mississippi, on June 3, 1924, and was raised in Atlanta and Memphis.[1] He adapted the professional surname "Rogers" from his stepfather's last name. Rogers learned the harmonica alongside his childhood friend Snooky Pryor,

    • January
      • Reverend Gary Davis - Children of Zion
        01/05/09


        Reverend Gary Davis was a towering figure in at least two realms. As a finger-style guitarist he developed a complex yet swinging approach to picking that has influenced generations of players, including Jerry Garcia, Ry Cooder, Dave Van Ronk, Jorma Kaukonen and Stefan Grossman. And as a

  • 2008
    • December
      • Furry Lewis - When I lay my burden down
        12/17/08


        Furry Lewis (March 6, 1893 - September 14, 1981[1]) was a country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. Lewis was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement, and given a new lease of recording life, by the folk blues re

    • November
      • James Cotton - Slow Blues
        11/30/08

        James Cotton (called Cotton by his friends) was born
        on the first day of July,1935, in Tunica, Mississippi. He was the
        youngest of eight brothers and sisters who grew up in the cotton fields working beside their mother, Hattie, and their father, Mose. On Sundays Mose was the preacher

      • Ray Charles & Oscar Peterson Play A Blues Duet - Very Rare
        11/28/08

        Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, CC, CQ, O.Ont. (15 August 1925 – 23 December 2007)was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty. He released over 200 recordings, won

      • Floyd Jones & Big Walter Chicago Blues
        11/16/08


        Floyd Jones (July 21, 1917 – December 19, 1989) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter, who is significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after the Second World War. A number of Jones' recordings are regarded

      • Buddy Guy First Time I Met The Blues blues
        11/16/08


        Buddy Guy
        First Time I Met The Blues blues

        The first time I met the blues,
        People, you know I was walkin, I was walkin down through the woods.
        Yes, the first time, the first time I met you, blues,
        Blues you know I was walkin, I was walkin down through the

      • Old Blues
        11/14/08

      • Cousin Joe" Pleasant
        11/14/08
        Check it out

        "Cousin Joe" Pleasant (December 20, 1907 — October 2, 1989) was a blues and jazz singer, later famous for his 1940s recordings with clarinetist Sidney Bechet and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow.

        His birth name was Pleasant Joseph and he grew up in the fields of

      • The Blues & Gospel Train
        11/13/08


        The ticket for the Blues & Gospel Train performance. Produced by famous Granada TV 'light entertainment' producer Johnny Hamp, this ticket gets you on the train leaving Central Station (GMEX) and taking you to Wilbraham Rd Railway Station where there were top notch blues pe

      • you can't lose some little girl you ain't never had - Muddy Waters
        11/10/08


        You Can't Lose What You Never Had

        Muddy Waters, Allman Brothers

        Had a sweet little girl, I lose my baby, boy ain't that bad
        Had a sweet little girl, I lose my baby, boy ain't that bad
        You can't spend what you ain't

      • Kokomo Arnold - Neck Bone Blues
        11/06/08


        Kokomo Arnold
        From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


        Kokomo Arnold (15 February 1901 — 8 November 1968) was an American blues musician. Born James Arnold in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, Arnold received his nickname in 1934 after releasing "Old Original Kokom

      • Roots of Blues -- Memphis Slim Beer Drinking Woman
        11/06/08


        I walked into a beer tavern
        To give a girl a nice time
        I had forty-five dollars when I enter
        When I left I had one dime

        Wasn't she a beer drinkin' woman?
        Don't ya know, man don't ya know?
        She was a beer-drinkin' woman
        And

      • Muddy Waters - Baby Please Don't Go
        11/02/08


        "Baby, Please Don't Go" is a blues song first recorded by Big Joe Williams in 1935. It is related to a group of early 20th century blues and work songs that include "Alabama Bound", "Another Man Done Gone", and "Don't Leave Me Here", and

      • Live Jazz & Blues Sat Nov 1st 10pm - 1am 26 Willow St. Adamstown PA USA 19501
        11/01/08
        Come on out o hear some great blues and jazz!!!
        Get map directions



    • October
      • My Good Gal's Gone Blues - Leon Redbone
        10/31/08


        Leon Redbone (August 26, 1949[2]) is a singer and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century music, including jazz and blues standards and Tin Pan Alley classics.

        Recognized for his trademark Panama hat, dark sunglasses, and bow tie, Redbone first appeared

      • Goodnight Irene
        10/30/08

        Goodnight, Irene

        "Goodnight, Irene" or "Irene, Goodnight," is a 20th century American folk standard. The lyrics tell how the singer lost his love through "rambling and gambling". He contemplates suicide in the famous line "Sometimes I take a great

      • Leadbelly (1888-1949) - born Huddie Ledbetter
        10/28/08
        American blues singer, "King of The Twelve-String Guitar," who twice sang himself out of jails. Ledbetter helped to inspire the folk and blues revivals of the Fifties and Sixties and he was one of the first traditional folk musicians to perform for a city audience. Ledbetter's perseve

      • Huddie Ledbetter
        10/28/08

        The train from Houston to San Antonio, approximating the route of Alternate 90, would arrive in Sugar Land at midnight, it's light shining brightly. Prisoners imagined it was their passage to freedom.

        Huddie Ledbetter usually escaped from the cellblocks he found himself confine

      • The midnight special
        10/27/08
        The Midnight Special

        The Midnight Special was the name of a passenger train formerly operated by the Chicago and Alton Railroad and its successor, the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The train ran on an overnight schedule, and in later years carried the last regularly scheduled Pullman sl

      • The Midnight Special / Odetta
        10/27/08

        Odetta (born December 31, 1930) is an African-American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement." Her musical repertoire consists largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An i

      • Led Zeppelin: The Songs Remain the Same
        10/22/08


        A great look at the greats

      • Robert Johnson-Traveling Riverside Blues
        10/22/08


        Robert Johnson lyrics
        Traveling Riverside Blues blues lyrics

        If your man get personal, want you to have your fun
        If your man get personal, want you to have your fun
        Just come on back to Friars Point, mama, and barrelhouse all night long

        I got womens i

      • Led Zeppelin - Travelling Riverside Blues
        10/22/08


        "Travelling Riverside Blues" is a blues song written and recorded in Dallas, Texas by legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. Johnson's June 20, 1937 recording has a typical 12 bar blues structure, played on a single guitar tuned to open G, with a slide. It was first released o

      • Jimi Hendrix beeing entertained by Buddy Guy
        10/22/08


        Jimi Hendrix watching Buddy Guy play the Generation Club

      • Hubert Sumlin, Life Lessons and Guitar Lessons
        10/22/08
        Hubert Sumlin (born November 16, 1931) is a blues guitar player known as both a solo artist and central element in Howlin' Wolf's backup band. Listed in Rolling Stone's The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Sumlin continues to tour and play blues guitar. He is cited as a major infl

    • September
    • June
      • Sonny Terry - Hooray, Hooray, These Women Is Killin' Me
        06/01/08


        Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911, Greensboro, North Carolina - 11 March 1986, Mineola, New York[1]) was a blind blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitatio

      • Memphis Slim -- Every Day I have the Blues
        06/01/08


        John "Memphis Slim" Chatman (born September 3, 1915, Memphis, Tennessee; died February 24, 1988, in Paris, France) was a blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump-blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano.

    • May
      • Maxwell Street Robert Nighthawk
        05/24/08
        Robert Lee McCollum (30 November 1909 – 5 November 1967) was an American bluesman who played and recorded under the names Robert Lee McCoy and Robert Nighthawk.



        Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician, and after a period wandering th

      • Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (1963)
        05/24/08
        Big Joe Williams (born Joseph Lee Williams, October 16, 1903 - December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues musician and songwriter, known for his characteristic style of guitar-playing, his nine-string guitar, and his bizarre, cantankerous personality.
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      • Muddy Waters- Train Fare Home Blues, 1968
        05/12/08




      • Muddy Waters feat. Otis Spann- Cold Feeling Blues, 1968
        05/12/08


        Otis Spann (March 21, 1930 – April 24, 1970 [1]) was an American blues musician. Many aficionados considered him then, and now, as Chicago's leading postwar blues pianist.[2]
        Contents

        Career

        Born in Jackson, Mississippi[3], Spann became known for his disti

      • Roosevelt Sykes - Sweet Home Chicago
        05/12/08


        Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906 in Elmar, Arkansas – July 17, 1983 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American blues musician also known as "Honeydripper".

        He was a successful and prolific cigar-chomping blues piano player who influenced blues piano playing with his

      • Chester Arthur Burnett
        05/06/08


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      • Have You See My Rooster....Memphis Minnie
        05/02/08
        Have You See My Rooster....Memphis Minnie



        Memphis Minnie McCoy (born Lizzie Douglas, June 3, 1897 in Algiers, Louisiana; died August 6, 1973 in Memphis, Tennessee) was an American Blues guitarist, vocalist, and composer.

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        Career

        Born Lizz

      • Foldin' Bed - Whistler & His Jug Band ca. 1930
        05/02/08
        Foldin' Bed - Whistler & His Jug Band ca. 1930



        Whistler & His Jug Band was a long-lasting and popular group that recorded for several labels from the mid-'20s through the early '30s, and influenced many of the jug bands that followed. The group was forme

      • Sonny Boy Williamson II - Nine Below Zero (1963)
        05/02/08
        Sonny Boy Williamson II - Nine Below Zero (1963)



        Aleck "Rice" Miller (December 5, 1899 or March 11, 1908 – May 25, 1965), a.k.a. Sonny Boy Williamson II, Willie Williamson, Willie Miller, "Little Boy Blue", "The Goat" and "Footsie," was

      • Lowell Fulsom - You'll miss me when i'm gone
        05/02/08
        Lowell Fulsom - You'll miss me when i'm gone



        Lowell Fulsom

        Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921 – March 7, 1999[1]) was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. Fulson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for busine

      • Elmore James - Got to Move
        05/02/08
        Elmore James - Got to Move



        Elmore James (January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues guitarist, singer, song writer and band leader. He was known as The King of the Slide Guitar and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring

      • Howlin' Wolf - Meet Me In The Bottom
        05/02/08
        Howlin' Wolf - Meet Me In The Bottom



        Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known as Howlin' Wolf or sometimes, The Howlin' Wolf, was an influential blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.

        With a booming voice and loom