Big Road Blues

Show Notes: Today is the second of a two-part show spotlighting some early blues queens who made records in the 20s and 30s but were singing blues and other music long before the record companies saw blues as a commercial enterprise. Notably absent are Bessie Smith, arguably the greatest of them all, who we have […]

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Show Notes: Today is the first of a two-part show spotlighting some early blues queens who made records in the 20s and 30s but were singing blues and other music long before the record companies saw blues as a commercial enterprise. Notably absent are Bessie Smith, arguably the greatest of them all, who we have […]

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Show Notes:    Andrew “Smokey” Hogg was a popular country blues star in the late 40s and 50s who sold quite a number of records but his reputation among blues collectors has always ranked low. Poor Smokey received relentless written criticism in the long defunct Sailor’s Delight magazine and Dave “Latchford Slim” Clarke’s stinging cartoon […]

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Show Notes:  Plenty of themes and features for today’s mix show. We hear twin spins from fine, obscure artists such as Otis Harris, D.A. Hunt, Monroe Walker and Walter Brown. Also on tap, a fine set of Texas blues, several tracks from the 1979 Delta Blues Festival, a set of Robert Johnson covers, a set […]

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