PLAYLIST for MAY 13, 2009

THE BLUES BOX: The Danish record company Storyville has issued a seven CD and one DVD boxed set appropriately named THE BLUES BOX. The box contains recordings made in Denmark and Switzerland in the ‘fifties, ‘sixties and ‘seventies by visiting American blues artists, generally of the pre-Chicago generation. Of the nineteen artists featured tonight, two play harmonica, seven are guitarists, and ten are pianists; all of them sing. I have tried to choose cuts where these artists perform their own compositions, and preferably lesser-known compositions, although in the blues composition is a pretty fluid concept.

We’ll also plug Ranee Lee and Oliver Jones, who’ll be at Centrepointe on May 14, and
Kevin Turcotte, who joins John Geggie and Ted Quinlan on the NAC Fourth Stage on May 23.

Artist: Lonnie Johnson
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Raining on the Cold, Cold Ground
Label: Storyville

Artist: Otis Spann
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Worried Life Blues
Label: Storyville

Artist: Sunnyland Slim
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Prison Bound Blues
Label: Storyville

Artist: Speckled Red
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Oh! Red
Label: Storyville

Artist: Speckled Red
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: St. Louis Stomp
Label: Storyville

Artist: Ranee Lee & Oliver Jones
Album: Just You, Just Me
Tune: Just You, Just Me
Label: Justin Time

Artist: Steve Holt featuring Kevin Turcotte
Album: Catwalk
Tune: Up Jumped Chuck
Label: Sackville

Artist: Little Brother Montgomery
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Willie Anderson’s Blues
Label: Storyville

Artist: Sippie Wallace
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Bedroom Blues
Label: Storyville

Artist: Sippie Wallace
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Up The Country Blues
Label: Storyville

Artist: Roosevelt Sykes
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: 44 Blues
Label: Storyville

Artist: Big Joe Williams
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: El Peso Blues
Label: Storyville

Artist: Big Joe Williams
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Saturday Night Jump
Label: Storyville

Artist: Sleepy John Estes
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Mountain Cat Blues
Label: Storyville

Artist: Robert Pete Williams
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Greyhound Blues
Label: Storyville

Artist: John Henry Barbee
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: I Ain’t Gonna Pick No More Cotton
Label: Storyville

Artist: Big Bill Broonzy
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Black Brown and White
Label: Storyville

Artist: Memphis Slim
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Big City Girl
Label: Storyville

Artist: Memphis Slim
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Fattening Frogs For Snakes
Label: Storyville

Artist: Champion Jack Dupree
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: In The Evening
Label: Storyville

Artist: Eddie Boyd
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Five Long Years
Label: Storyville

Artist: Eddie Boyd
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: A Reel Good Feeling
Label: Storyville

Artist: Jay McShann
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: Cherry Red
Label: Storyville

Artist: Sonny Boy Williamson
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: The Story of Sonny Boy Williamson
Label: Storyville

Artist: Sonny Boy Williamson
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: I Can’t Understand
Label: Storyville

Artist: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: The Chariot Is Coming
Label: Storyville

Artist: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Album: The Blues Box
Tune: I’m Crazy About Your Pie
Label: Storyville


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