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January 26, 2020

Blues and Rhythm Show 272 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 (10:00 to 12:00 noon) – already aired.

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Los Angeles R&B recordings from the fifties; more about Rufus Rastus (What You Gonna Do when the Rent Comes Round); Blues in the street – Maxwell Street in Chicago; guitar gospel; Stax-Volt 1968

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On the Show:

Maxwell Davis Orchestra – Ray Agee – Rusty McDonald – Steve Strongman – Ginger St.James – Mississippi Possum Hunters – Arvella Gray – Maxwell Street Jimmy – Robert Nighthawk – Stanley Brothers – Eddie “Lee :”Mustright” Jones – Ollie & the Nightingales – Jeanne & the Darlings – and others

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton, live on Cogeco Cable 288 or on CFMU online at CFMU.ca. The program will be available to stream or download until March 18th. CFMU podcasts now available for 8 weeks. Just go the website, bring up the right playlist and stream or download the show.

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

TBA.

cmc

January 18, 2020

Blues and Rhythm Show 271 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

Filed under: Uncategorized — cmcompton @ 3:05 am

Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, January 14th, 2020 (10:00 to 12:00 noon) – already aired.

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Chicago Blues: 1960s singles and late album tracks, 1970s-1990s; early Junior Kimbrough; Hawaiian string music and bottleneck guitar; Natchez Fire; Anthony Heilbut: Gospel Sound and his Spirit Feel label.

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On the Show:

Roosevelt Sykes – Earl Hooker – Big Daddy Rogers – Son Seals – Zora Young – John Lee Ziegler – Sol Hoopii – Casey Bill Weldon – Gene Gilmore – Louise Massey & the Westerners – Trickbag – Arizona Dranes – Inez Andrews – and others

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton, live on Cogeco Cable 288 or on CFMU online at CFMU.ca. The program will be available to stream or download until March 11th. CFMU podcasts now available for 8 weeks. Just go the website, bring up the right playlist and stream or download the show.

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

TBA.

cmc

January 8, 2020

Blues and Rhythm Show 270 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

Filed under: Uncategorized — cmcompton @ 8:13 pm

Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 (10:00 to 12:00 noon) – already aired

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We covered a lot of ground in our first program of the year: 1950s Rhythm & Blues , Chicago Blues from roughly the same era, a pair of little-known gospel quartets recorded in Dallas in 1929,  Country Gospel, post-war singing preachers, Soul out of Chicago.

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Big Maybelle – Little Esther Phillips – H-Bomb Ferguson – Little Richard – Billy “The Kid” Emerson – Junior Wells – Duke Robillard – The Vaudevillian – Josh White – Blackwood Brothers – Rev Kelsey – Bishop Louis Narcisse – Otis Clay – Alvin Cash & the Crawlers – and others

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton, live on Cogeco Cable 288 or on CFMU online at CFMU.ca. The program will be available to stream or download until March 4th. CFMU podcasts now available for 8 weeks. Just go the website, bring up the right playlist and stream or download the show.

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

TBA.

cmc

 

 

 

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