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Something Blue - for air 2-26-94 - Jelly Roll Kings, Tony Spinner
play - Jelly Roll Kings, Jelly Roll King 2:16
Rockin the Juke Joint Down, Earwig
Welcome to Something Blue. This is Hairy Larry and I've got the
blues ... for you.
play - Tony Spinner, Angeline 4:57
Saturn Blues, Blues Bureau
play - Tony Spinner, Make it Through 5:27
Saturn Blues, Blues Bureau
And that's Tony Spinner from Jonesboro, Arkansas doing "Angeline"
and "Make it Through" from his new CD "Saturn Blues". And before
Tony, kicking us off tonight, we heard The Jelly Roll Kings do
"Jelly Roll King" from their Earwig CD "Rockin the Juke Joint
Down".
The Jelly Roll Kings are Frank Frost, Sam Carr, and Big Jack
Johnson. They are still playing Delta Blues today just like they
have for years and years. Both Frank and Sam used to play with
Sonny Boy Williamson. Here they are doing a Sonny Boy tune,
"Mighty Long Time".
play - Jelly Roll Kings, Mighty Long Time 3:58
Rockin the Juke Joint Down, Earwig
play - Big Jack Johnson, Oh Darling 4:59
Daddy When is Mama Coming Home, Earwig
play - Ry Cooder, Willie Brown Blues 3:40
Crossroads, Warner Brothers
Ant that's Frank Frost helping Ry Cooder out on the Crossroads
sound track. Frank and John "Juke" Logan traded harp parts on
the "Willie Brown Blues". Before that we heard "Oh Darling" from
Big Jack Johnson's latest CD, "Daddy, When is Mama Coming Home.
Frank plays keyboards and harmonica, Big Jack guitar, and Sam
Carr plays the drums. Sam's father, Robert Nighthawk, has a
couple of good tunes on a CD called "Blues Legends". Here's
"Take it Easy, Baby", another Sonny Boy Williamson song.
play - Robert Nighthawk, Take It Easy Baby 2:46
Blues Legends, Laserlight
play - Ry Cooder, Walkin' Away Blues 3:30
Crossroads, Warner Brothers
play - Robert Nighthawk, Kansas City 2:41
Blues Legends, Laserlight
Robert Nighthawk singing "Kansas City". And before that another
blues legend, Sonny Terry, playing harmonica with Ry Cooder's
guitar on the Crossroads soundtrack.
Ry Cooder and the Crossroads movie brought the Delta Blues to a
large mainstream audience. Another superb contemporary blues
musician helping to widen the Blues audience is John Hammond.
Jerry Wexler calls him "arguably the greatest root blues
practitioner of this generation". Here's John now doing "That
Nasty Swing".
play - John Hammond, That Nasty Swing 2:30
Trouble No More, Pointblank
play - John Hammond, Trouble Blues 3:29
Trouble No More, Pointblank
Charles Brown, piano and John Hammond, guitar and vocals on the
Charles Brown standard "Trouble Blues. And before that John
Hammond and Roy Rogers did "That Nasty Swing". Both from his new
CD "Trouble no More".
About half of the album has John playing in front of Little
Charlie and the Nightcats and it really cooks. Like this number
"Who will be Next".
play - John Hammond, Who will be Next 2:57
Trouble No More, Pointblank
play - Jelly Roll Kings, I Didn't Know 3:56
Rockin the Juke Joint Down, Earwig
play - John Hammond, Wild Man on the Loose 2:22
Trouble No More, Pointblank
Yeah, John Hammond doing a Mose Allison song, "Wild Man on the
Loose". And before that the Jelly Roll Kings did a Howling Wolf
song "I Didn't Know". Now here's Big Jack Johnson lightening
things up a little with a song he wrote called "I'm a Big Boy
Now".
play - Big Jack Johnson, I'm a Big Boy Now 3:25
Daddy When is Mama Coming Home, Earwig
play - Jelly Roll Kings, Honeydrippin Boogie 4:45
Rockin the Juke Joint Down, Earwig
voice over - Closing the show we have the Jelly Roll Kings
getting down with some "Honeydrippin Boogie". Until next week
then, this is Hairy Larry reminding you, once again, Blues is the
mainstream.
@ 58 minutes
Something Blue is a production of KASU at Arkansas State
University. I'm Larry Heyl, your producer and host. This show
was engineered by John Sifford and myself. If you have enjoyed
the show call me at Jonesboro Computer Services, 501-935-6659, or
write to Something Blue, Post Office Box 2160, State University,
AR 72467. Thanks for listening.
