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First Aired 4-3-99 - Willie Bloom
Clayton Love, Willie Bloom, Memphis Slim, Joe Lee Combo
play - Clayton Love, Goin Down Slow
Welcome to Something Blue. This is Hairy Larry and I've got the Blues,
for you ...
play - Clayton Love, Don't You Lie To Me
play - Clayton Love, Goin Home
And that's Clayton Love, a St. Louis pianist from Clarksdale, Mississippi
with three songs, "Goin Down Slow", "Don't You Lie To Me", and "Goin
Home". If you can't travel to St. Louis to hear his music Clayton is
often featured at the Sunflower River Blues Festival in Clarksdale. We
also heard Beau Shelby on guitar and Willie Akins on saxophone.
Clayton was raised with Ike Turner and recorded "The Big Question" with
Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm in 1957. He rerecorded the tune with
The Johnnie Johnson Band for this great album called "Rockin'
Eighty-Eights". Here's Clayton Love now with the Ike Turner tune, "The
Big Question".
play - Clayton Love, The Big Question
play - Willie Bloom, Sweet Man
play - Willie Bloom, What a Life
All right, that's Willie Bloom singing "Sweet Man" and "What a Life".
Willie was recorded by Joe Lee at Alley Records and released on a full
length LP "Sweet Man". With Joe's help we are now able to bring you
these rare recordings of vintage piano blues on Something Blue.
Continuing with side one we will hear "I Never Knew", "Lonesome", "Pencil
Pappa Blues", "I'm No Man's Mama Now", "Sweet Lorraine", and "Let it Rain".
play - Willie Bloom, I Never Knew - Lonesome
play - Willie Bloom, Pencil Pappa Blues
play - Willie Bloom, I'm No Man's Mama Now
play - Willie Bloom, Sweet Lorraine
play - Willie Bloom, Let it Rain
Willie Bloom started playing professionally in 1918. He played in
Memphis, New Orleans, and all over the country. Some of the greats he
has joined on the stage are W.C. Handy, Jimmy Lunceford, Fats Pichon,
Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Fats Waller.
Over seventy years old when he made the Alley release Willie Bloom was a
wealth of pinao nuance. Every little phrase either after a vocal or at
the turnaround has it's own personality. On the liner notes Joe Lee said:
It has been both a delightful and educational experience for us
here at Alley Records. We would like to add that Willie was
somewhat worried that some of his songs would be considered too
earthy, however, we felt that they should be included as
representative of a fabulous era when the blues were born.
Willie wrote several of these earthy songs himself including "Osceola
Blues", "Ice Man", and "Sissy Man". Now here's side two of the Willie
Bloom LP, "Sweet Man".
play - Willie Bloom, Osceola Blues
play - Willie Bloom, Cootie Crawl
play - Willie Bloom, Glad Rag Doll
play - Willie Bloom, Ice Man
play - Willie Bloom, Jelly Roll
play - Willie Bloom, Sissy Man
And that's Willie Bloom from his Alley Release "Sweet Man". Special
thanks to Joe Lee for providing these recordings.
For more about Alley Records and Joe Lee visit Alley's web site at
deltaboogie.com/alleyrecords. Something Blue scripts may be found at
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Now here's another great Memphis pianist, Memphis Slim, singing his
song, "Big Town Girl".
play - Memphis Slim, Big Town Girl
Something Blue is a production of KASU at Arkansas State University. The
show tonight was engineered by Joe Lee and myself. I'm Larry Heyl, your
producer and host. Until next week, then, this is Hairy Larry reminding
you once again, Blues is the Mainstream.
Now for our bonus track, never before aired, here's Joe Lee, Sax; Joey
Sanford, piano; Ben Brogden, bass; and John Long, drums with "What's
New".
play - Whats New
