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October 10, 2022

Blues and Rhythm Show 364 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, October 11. 2022 (10:00 to 12:00 noon)

We have not found time to maintain our blogsite this year but we do want to remind everyone that we are still on the air and producing new programs for you. Work it out and you’ll find that 364 represents 7 years of new shows give or take the odd live repeat. This week’s program, the day after Canadian Thanksgiving Monday, Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the U.S., we have just a taste of R&B; B.B. King on Kent; Texas acoustic blues; Jelly Roll Kings; a brief tribute to Joe Bussard; Gospel women; And more..

“I ain’t gonna pick no more cotton. I declare I ain’t gonna plant no more corn” – Rosetta Howard

“Wake up boys don’t yoube no fool. The little gal here she’s just from school. She got plenty sense. She ain’t no fool. She got big eyes but she’s stubborn as a mule”– Big Bill

On the Show:

Freddy King – Pee Wee Crayton – Carter Brothers – Frank Frost – Thomas Shaw – Rosetta Howard – Charles Brown – Trickbag – Lonnie Johnson – Dawn Tyler Watson – Bill Johnson’s Louisiana Jug Band – Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers – Wyzee Hamilton – Hazel Chapman – Gladys McFadden & the Loving Sisters – Della Reese

Listen to the program each week at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.ca. The program will be available to stream or download until for eight weeks until December 6th as a podcast. Just go the website, scroll through 40 shows to Tuesday 10:00 am bring up the right playlist and stream or download the show.

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

October 27, 2013

Blues and Rhythm Show 103 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 (1:00-2:30 pm)

We have not programmed a lot of white country blues week to week. Recently, we took a look at our composite playlist and recognized how little of this music we’d managed to fit into the show. We suggested last week we might do a feature on Western Swing but the feature we have put together would be better characterized as Old Timey, covering the period 1924-1935. White Country Blues serve some of the same functions as blues in the African-American tradition. They serve at times  as ironic commentary, humour, and even social protest. Some singers, like Jimmy Davis, Gene Autry and Cliff Carlisle, specialized, at least part of the time, in “blue” blues. White Country Blues also at times betrayed a fascination with African American music, speech and behaviour. Some white blues amounted to parody of black style, like the minstrel tradition, and, as with the minstrel tradition, some parody appeared to be sympathetic, even, at times, admiring, and some contemptuous and hateful. 

In the set we’ve prepared we haven’t sought out the songs that were topical or salacious. It’s a selection of blues that we hope will illustrate simply that blues was a significant part of Old Time or Hillbilly music, beside the ballads and breakdowns. 

On the Show

Lonnie Johnson – Bukka White – Big Chief Ellis  – Morgan Davis – Uncle Dave Macon – Frank Hutchinson – Dock Boggs – Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers – Riley Puckett – Holmes Brothers – and many others

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 November 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 (November 5th)

Undetermined as of today. We’ll update.

Errors and Omissions

Last week (BRS 102), we played Curtis Jones, but we failed to mention that, like Memphis Slim and Eddie Boyd, Curtis Jones moved to Europe in the 1960s and made records there. He also made a well-received album for Delmark, in Chicago.

We experienced several skips on the CD track we played by Curtis Jones, “Bad Avenue Blues”. The CD players at the station are quite sensitive. We examined the surface of the disc to see a flaw or anything on the surface to cause the problem but couldn’t find the source of the malfunction.

cmc

 
 

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