sweartotellthetruth

April 26, 2014

Blues and Rhythm Show 128 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — cmcompton @ 3:10 am

Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, April 22, 2014 (1:00-2:30 pm)

This week we have a feature devoted to classic-vaudeville blues singers on record between 1922 and 1927. Perhaps 200 singers performing in this genre made records. Some of these were not really blues singers  but vaudeville singers marketed as blues singers singing material for which they had little feeling. At the same time,  of course, many legitimate and skilled blues singers did make records. Our feature presented eight singers well known in their time. Some of these are better known today than others but all of them left a significant mark through their live performances and recordings  We didn’t pick out the songs especially for their lyrics but a number of the songs contain lyrics that were picked up by male singers later on. and will be recognizable to anyone who has listened to blues of the thirties and later

Most of the rerords we selected fo the feature were made in New York with the New York studio musicians of the period. We also included some Rhythm & Blues recordings from the Jubilee and Atlantic labels on the program, featuring New York sidemen of a different era, the early fifties.

We failed to have this blog entry ready in time for the show. In our defence, we’d just like to add that we also did a fill-in on the Cracked Vinyl: Bebop and Beyond program, (Tuesday, 10:00-12:00 pm , CFMU, 93.3) where we offered up a selection of jazz recordings made between 1929 and 1995. That took a bit of time to put together. If you are interested, the program can be streamed or downloaded from the CFMU website.

On the Show:

Rene Hall – Frank “Floorshow” Culley – Odele Turner – Van “Piano Man” Walls – Lucille Hegamin – Sara Martin – Rosa Henderson – Ida Cox – Bobby Patterson –  Michael Pickett

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.mcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until May 26th.

Contact Us

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next week (April 29th)

Don’t yet have a plan but we’ll update when we do.  Check the blogsite closer to the date.

cmc

April 15, 2014

Blues and Rhythm Show 127 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , — cmcompton @ 1:18 pm

Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, April 15, 2014 (1:00-2:30 pm)

This week’s program is about the years preceding the so-called “Blues Revival”. The term was based upon the idea that the blues had been lost and needed to be rediscovered or revived. The Blues Revival was about artists and styles from the past history of the blues. It was about Son House, Bessie Smith, and Bukka White, rather than contemporary stars like B.B. King, Bobby Bland and Junior Parker. Our first idea was to devote a single program to the phenomenon of the Blues Revival but we decided to expand our coverage to include the prehistory of the revival, starting in the 1930s. This week’s program tracks the changes in mainstream attention to and interest in the blues and we conclude that what the Blues Revival really describes is the new and rapidly expanding folk audience’s discovery of music most of America didn’t know anything about. The revival began with interest in the blues of the twenties and thirties and was partly inspired and given impetus by the 78 collector culture and interest in the artists who made the records twenty to forty years earlier. Interest soon extended to classic Chicago blues, music only a decade past at the time. By the end of the sixties, writers like Paul Oliver had begun the task of writing the history of blues in close detail. 

A byproduct of the Blues Revival is the huge amount of research and study that has been devoted to this corner of American musical and cultural history since the sixties. Today’s program tracks the stages in mainstream America’s interest in and exposure to blues from the late 1930s to the late fifties and early sixties.

On the Show:

Leadbelly – Joe Turner – Sonny Terry – Pink Anderson – Furry Lewis – Scrapper Blackwell – Memphis Slim – Alberta Hunter – Dave Van Ronk – Reverend Robert Wilkins

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.mcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until May 12th.

Contact Us

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next week (April 22nd)

Don’t yet have a plan but we’ll mix things up on next week’s program. Check the blogsite closer to the date.

cmc

April 9, 2014

Blues and Rhythm Show 126 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — cmcompton @ 2:57 am

Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, April 8, 2014 (1:00-2:30 pm)

No special theme on this week’s program. R&B, blues, gospel, soul and a bit of rockabilly in the mix. We draw from some new reissues documenting early King label blues and gospel and a couple of anthologies of rare gospel singles. We also mark the reissue after several decades of one of the great albums of the blues revival. 

On the Show:

Johnny Otis Orchestra – Blind Lemon Jefferson – Carl Perkins – Little Willie Littlefield – Detroit Count – McKenna Mendelson Mainline – Robert Wilkins – Thelma Bumpess – Nightingales – Alamagordo Spiritual Aires –  Sharon Jones & the Dap-KIngs

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.mcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until May 5th.

Contact Us

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next week (April 8th)

Show is not yet planned. Check the blogsite closer to the date.

cmc

Blog at WordPress.com.