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Something Blue for air 4-8-94 Beale Street
play - Strong Red Whiskey 3:30
Beale St. Blues "Alive and Well" at Blues Alley
Welcome to Something Blue. This is Hairy Larry and I've got the
Blues... for you.
play - Billy Boy Arnold, Shake Your Hips 3:25
Back Where I Belong - Alligator B-CD-170
play - Bob Margolin, Lonesome Bedroom Blues 4:51
Down in the Alley - Alligator B-CD-169
All Right, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin doing "Lonesome Bedroom
Blues". And before that Billy Boy Arnold did "Shake Your Hips".
Kicking us off tonight we heard "Strong Red Whiskey" done by some
Beale Street Musicians on an album called "Beale Street Blues -
Alive and Well at Blues Alley". This was recorded in 1983 as
part of a Blues Revival for Beale Street. At that time Blues
Alley was one of the few clubs in Memphis playing Blues every
night. Now just ten years later we can go to Memphis and hear
musicians like Bob Margolin or Billy Boy Arnold at numerous clubs
up and down Beale Street.
Let's listen to some more songs from the "Alive and Well"
album. First "All Right OK You Win" and then a medley of "You
Don't Know Like I Know" and "Soul Man". Listen to the vocal work
on "Soul Man". John Belushi, eat your heart out.
play - All Right OK You Win 3:30
Beale St. Blues "Alive and Well" at Blues Alley
play - You Don't Know Like I Know, Soul Man 4:30
Beale St. Blues "Alive and Well" at Blues Alley
play - Rock Me Daddy 2:20
Beale St. Blues "Alive and Well" at Blues Alley
And that's Ma Rainey singing "Rock Me Daddy". Alive and Well on
Beale Street.
Mose Vinson has played blues piano in Memphis all his life. You
can hear him now at "The Center for Southern Folklore" on Beale
Street. I went there to visit with him and enjoyed talking to
him and listening to his music.
play - Mose Vinson segment 10:00
song 3 segues into interview
open - Mose how old are you ...
close - ... they left me by myself
songs 4 and 5
interview
open - When I first started ...
close - You could take a dollar ... last you a whole
month.
songs 2
After I saw Mose I caught Billy Boy Arnold and Bob Margolin
across the street at B.B. Kings. Bob used to play with Muddy
Waters and I asked him about the great man.
interview 1:00
open - That was the thrill of my lifetime ...
close - ... Buford on the harmonica
Here's Bob now doing a Muddy Waters song, "Look What You Done".
play - Bob Margolin, Look What you Done (Morganfield) 2:46
Down in the Alley - Alligator B-CD-169
play - Billy Boy Arnold, Prisoner's Plea 4:55
Back Where I Belong - Alligator B-CD-170
Now here's Bob Margolin telling us about delay time a blues style
he learned from Muddy Waters.
interview :40
open - Maybe you could explain a little more...
close - ...you have to get that laid back feel
play - Bob Margolin, Brown Liquor 3:48
Down in the Alley - Alligator B-CD-169
Steady Rollin, No Controllin', Bob Margolin singing his own song
"Brown Liquor". Before that we heard Billy Boy Arnold do
"Prisoner's Plea".
interview :50
open - Is this your first or second album an Alligator
close - ... reflected in this album.
Here's another song he wrote from his CD "Down in the Alley", a
wry look at life on the road called "Big Tree Blues".
play - Bob Margolin, Big Tree Blues 3:23
Down in the Alley - Alligator B-CD-169
Billy Boy Arnold wrote some classic blues at the beginning of his
career in Chicago in the fifties including "I Ain't Got You" and
"I Wish You Would". Here's a contemporary tune he wrote called
"Whiskey Beer and Reefer".
play - Billy Boy Arnold, Whiskey Beer and Reefer 4:30
Back Where I Belong - Alligator B-CD-170
play - Train 3:15
Beale St. Blues "Alive and Well" at Blues Alley
voice over - Closing the show we have a song called "Train" from
the "Alive and Well" LP. Until next week, then, this is Hairy
Larry reminding you once again, Blues is the Mainstream.
Credits
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,
Arkansas 72467. Thanks for listening.
