Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, August 18th, (1:00-2:30 pm).
We haven’t maintained our blogsite for the past month. This program began with some Texas blues, including a never issued instrumental by Long John Hunter. We featured Deak Harp on the show for the first time and then several Chicago blues tracks. We revisited a couple of white vaudeville blues recordings from the early 1920s and then looked at late twenties recordings by Clara and Bessie Smith, leading into a couple of quartet recordings from the Birmingham-Bessemer area of Alabama. Last in the show, some soul and soul-blues, including Cicero Blake.
On the Show:
Long John Hunter – Deak Harp – James Cotton – Aileen Stanley & Billy Murray – Clara Smith – Bessie Smith – Bessemer Sunset Four – Denise LaSalle – Cicero Blake – 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 September 14th.
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Next week (August 25th)
Mercury R&B story – 90 minute special
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