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July 28, 2015

Blues and Rhythm Show 190 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, July 28th, (1:00-2:30 pm)

A mid-summer special devoted to post-war Louisiana blues this week–mostly the music of South Louisiana – swamp blues, R&B, zydeco. We’ll feature records made between 1953 and 1969. Small label blues from South Louisiana were arguably the last wave of popular commercial blues over the years 1954-1966. We spotlight what was known as “the Excello Sound”, records from Jay Miller’s Crowley, Louisiana studio as well as recordings on Folk Star and Goldband from Eddie Shuler’s Lake Charles operation and the odd track from other small Louisiana indie labels. As well, we draw from the folkloric recordings collected by Dr. Harry Oster in the years 1959-1963.

On the Show:

Percy Mayfield – Clarence Garlow – Lightnin’ Slim – Slim Harpo – King Karl with Guitar Gable – Rockin’ Sidney – Herman E. Johnson – Robert Pete Williams – Ashton Savoy – Lonesome Sundown – Carol Fran – Donnie Jacobs – a.o.

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.msumcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until August 25th.

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

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Next week (August 4th)

TBA

cmc

July 21, 2015

Blues and Rhythm Show 189 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, July 21st, (1:00-2:30 pm)

A listener asks if we will be taking a holiday from the show during the summer. The answer is we don’t plan to but we did plan to repeat a couple of playlists from older shows, one in July and one in August.

This week, we’re presenting for the second time a playlist from 2012. Exciting mix of music, including some African-American rock and roll and a feature on the early years of the Atlantic label, whose original owners were oriented to issuing a catalogue of jazz recordings but wound up creating what was perhaps the most influential rhythm & blues catalogue of the 1950s. With the success of its R&B recordings, Atlantic did go on to become a great jazz label in the LP era but that might never have happened had the labels owners and musicians not ensured the label’s survival by tuning their sights to the R&B market while the label was struggling to become established. Our brief survey of Atlantic’s early R&B recordings covers the years 1947 to 1954.

On the Show:

Bo Diddley – Midnighters – Amos Milburn, Jr. – Five Blind Boys of Mississippi – Ruth Brown – Frank “Floorshow” Culley – Professor Longhair – Clovers – Jesse Stone – Z.Z. Hill – Ike & Tina Turner – a.o.

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.msumcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until August 18th.

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 (July 28th)

Louisiana special – swamp blues and R&B. Also planned for upcoming shows, Ralph Peer profile, our second Robert Johnson profile, James Brown.

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July 14, 2015

Blues and Rhythm Show 188 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, July 14th, (1:00-2:30 pm)

A couple of areas of focus on this week’s program. We sample some LPs of guitar blues from the Carolinas, music issued on Britain’s Flyright label in the 1970s and pretty difficult to find today, we’d guess. The recordings, some obtained by Bruce Bastin, author of two studies of the area’s music, Crying For the Carolinas and Red River Blues, complement the recordings issued on Pete Lowry’s Trix label but the Trix albums are still available and the Flyright LPs include some performers not recorded by Trix. Several tracks from a 1973 blues festival at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill.

The greater portion of the show is dedicated to a second feature dedicated to some of the more obscure but very capable performers from the Classic Era of Blues–the style sometimes referred to as Vaudeville Blues. Recordings by women who recorded blues between 1922 and 1929. Some of these singers, most of the singers in the feature, recorded just one 78 rpm disc. This is the promised followup to a program we did in December but we were surprised to see how much time had elapsed since that earlier program.

On the Show:

Mel Brown – Snooks Eaglin – Henry Johnson – Guitar Shorty (John Henry Fortescue) – Anna Meyers – Anna Lee Chisholm – Margaret Thornton – Josephine Byrd – Helen Savage – Edna Gallmon Cooke with the Radio Four – Brother John Sellers – a.o.

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.msumcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until August 11th.

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 (July 21st)

TBA

cmc

July 7, 2015

Blues and Rhythm Show 187 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, July 7th, (1:00-2:30 pm)

We wound up having to rush this show together. We move around quite a bit in this week’s program. R&B from the Federal and Recorded In Hollywood labels, Texas barrelhouse piano, South Louisiana blues and R&B are in the mix. Also, Otis Rush and trend-setting record producer Ralph Peer, who will be the subject of an upcoming program. Some of the program refers back to earlier shows and some looks ahead to upcoming shows we have planned, like the Ralph Peer special and the Louisiana special later this month.

On the Show:

Willie Wright & the Sparklers – Dolly Cooper – Linda Hayes – Bozo Nickerson – Grey Ghost – Otis Rush – Wonder Boy Travis – Juke Boy Bonner – Paramount Singers – Etta James – a.o.

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.msumcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until August 4th.

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 (July 14th)

TBA

cmc

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