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May 31, 2016

Blues and Rhythm Show 229 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Bit more white Country Music this week, including the East Virginia blues guitarist, Frank Hutchison; Decoration Day and Jubilo; a blues mystery man who left recordings in Fresno, R&B oddities from the forties and fifties; something by the fabulous bass singer, Jimmy Jones; another track from Halo Records.

On the Show:

Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson on “Jubilee” – Frank Hutchison – Chubby Parker – Ollie Watkins – Jewel Brown & Milton Hopkins – Sonny Boy Williams – Jubalaires– Harmonizing Four – Shaw Singers – Earl Gaines – and others

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 download until June 28th.

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Next week (June 7th)

TBA. June 14th – Juneteenth special

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May 24, 2016

Blues and Rhythm Show 228 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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This week on the Blues & Rhythm Show, some piano blues from the southwest, white country blues on studio recordings and one from the radio, King label R&B, another track from the new Howard Tate compilation, and something from the new compilation of gospel from the Halo label, plus Sacred Steel.

On the Show:

Howelldevine – Robert Jefferey – Cliff Carlisle – Maddox Brothers & Rose – Ginger St. James & the Grinders – Roy Brown – James Brown –  Howard Tate – Salem Travelers – Campbell Brothers – and others

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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 download until June 21st.

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Next week (May 31st)

TBA.

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May 17, 2016

Blues and Rhythm Show 227 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, May 17th (1:00 to 2:30pm)

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For 55 years Arhoolie Records has been a leading folkloric or roots label under the direction of its founder, Chris Strachwitz. Notice arrived here indicating that Arhoolie Records has been acquired by Smithsonian Folkways. The deal guarantees the availability of Arhoolie’s catalogue for the foreseeable future. If the Folkways catalogue is the model. Arhoolie’s catalogue will be available in hard copy where vinyl and CD stock remain and in digital form where items are out of print. Currently, some Folkways albums are available “on demand”. An advantage of Smithsonian Folkways ‘ operation is that liner notes and cover art are available as downloads along with the music files, unlike the case with many other labels’ catalogues.

Arhoolie has been a large part of the revolution in our knowledge of roots music, not just North American music but in World Music, as well. We did a profile of Arhoolie some time ago attempting to show the importance of the Arhoolie catalogue in blues and other North American roots music and we thought about presenting a version of that program again. Instead, we put together a mostly new program for this week’s show. With music’s availability through digital download, internet radio and YouTube it’s not always easy to understand how the music of the past became available to us in the first place.

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On the Show:

Johnie Lewis – Jesse Fuller – Mance Lipscomb – Bee Houston – John Littlejohn – Billie Pierce – John Semien & the Opelousas Playboys – Freddie Fender – Rev. Louis Overstreet – Campbell Brothers – and others

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 download until June 14th.

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Next week (May 24th)

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Blues and Rhythm Show 226 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Were the Soul Stirrers the greatest gospel quartet of all? We try to avoid superlatives on this program but many commentators treat the Soul Stirrers as though they were just that–the greatest gospel quartet of all. Certainly, the Stirrers, as much as any group, ushered in the era of modern hard gospel quartet, the style that dominated gospel’s “golden era” and R.H. Harris is hailed as the prototypical modern gospel lead and the innovator who introduced the practice of dual or multiple leads in quartet performance. What can’t be discounted is the estimation in which they were held in the gospel community but there seems to be some contrast in how the two great lead singers, R.H. Harris and Sam Cooke have been evaluated by their peers.

There has been much fascination with Sam Cooke’s place in popular music history because he successfully made the leap from gospel to pop and R&B and too briefly occupied a space at the apex of pop stardom. His pop stardom and importance as an R&B singer and producer at the moment that soul music was emergent only magnifies the importance of his role as lead singer of the Soul Stirrers and gospel innovator.

No one disputes that Sam Cooke fronting the Soul Stirrers changed the composition of the audience for the gospel programs but it’s also true that Stirrers were not the best-selling recording gospel quartet  of the era, or even the best selling quartet on their own label, Specialty.

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On the Show:

Julian Dash & His Orchestra – Famous Blue Jay Singers – Soul Stirrers – Pilgrim Travelers – Five Blind Boys of Alabama – Highway QCs –  and others

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 download until June 7th.

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Next week (May 17th)

TBA.

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May 3, 2016

Blues and Rhythm Show 225 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, May 3rd (1:00 to 2:30pm)

We’re back live this week with a new show. This week, Jackie Robinson and baseball in R&B; unissued Rosetta Tharpe and Wynonie Harris; pre-1920 gospel; proto-Soul from Detroit. Selections from a new Howard Tate compilation, and from the Toronto Blues Society 30th anniversary collection, Fresh Baked Blues (available at TBS website).

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On the Show:

Joe Simon – Brownie McGhee – Sister Wynona Carr – Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Wynonie Harris – Jim Europe’s Singing Serenaders – Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar – Junior Wells – Bettye LaVette – Howard Tate – and others

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 download until May 31st.

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Next week (May 10th)

TBA.

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