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January 18, 2022

Blues and Rhythm Show 341 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, January 18, 2022 (10:00 to 12:00 noon)

West Coast blues; blues from Mississippi and Louisiana in the Blues Revival era; Hillbilly Boogie & Western Swing; Cajun; Post-War Gospel.

“It’s a bad thing but so necessary that this cold world holds your value to become monetary” — Allen Toussaint

“When you get lonesome, sit down and write to me some day. If I don’t pay no account, baby, I’ll be down on Jeff Davis Highway” Lee Brown

On the Show:

Nat King Cole – Harpdog Brown – Jimmy Dawkins – Professor Longhair – Amos Garrett – Mississippi Fred McDowell – Jack Owens – Black Boy Shine – Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band – Spade Cooley – Blind James Campbell & His Nashville Street Band – King Louis H. Narcisse – Brooklyn All-Stars – and others

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 March 16th 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

September 19, 2015

Blues and Rhythm Show 194 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, August 25th, (1:00-2:30 pm).

Our plan was to work up a feature on R&B. This evolved to a full-length study of Chicago’s Mercury Records, a label which began as an independent specializing in R&B and country but was advantageously placed to become a major player in the recording industry. Our feature concentrated on the early years when, according to Berle Adams, the label’s success was based upon its R&B catalogue. We took the story from 1945 to 1952. Mercury did not remain a Chicago label for long. The label recorded in New York, New Orleans and L.A. and by the end of the fifties it was a major label, highly competitive in the pop field and with a large classical catalogue. As an R&B label, Mercury put together an impressive catalogue, including the recordings of Dinah Washington from 1946 to 1962. At different times the label had Eddie Vinson, Jay McShann, and Buddy and Ella Johnson on its roster.

On the Show:

Four Jumps of Jive – Sippie Wallace – Dinah Washington – Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson – Helen Humes – Cootie Williams Orchestra – Professor Longhair – Austin McCoy Trio with Frankie Ervin – Chuck Norris – Big Jim Wynn – 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 21st.

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 (September 1st)

We had to take a week off. The station played a repeat program.

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.

cmc

January 20, 2015

Blues and Rhythm Show 165 on 93.3 CFMU (Hamilton, Ontario)

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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, January 20th, (1:00-2:30 pm)

A few weeks ago we undertook to present a feature on field recordings collected by George Mitchell. Mitchell was 17 when he began to seek out bluesmen in Memphis on Christmas break 1961. The following year he began making recordings. The figures he pursued at first were artists who had made recordings in the twenties and thirties. At some point in the sixties Mitchell formed the idea of pursuing performers who hadn’t made records before. There were precedents but not many people were doing it and Mitchell seems to have approached the task with an open mind. No one else recorded female blues guitar players in the sixties.  Much of his search for music was done on his own and apart from his paid employment but in later years he held positions with folklore institutions that tied in well with the work of finding traditional singers and players. As well as recording local performers he arranged appearances for those who were interested in playing for audiences. Most of his activity was in Mississippi and Georgia.

It seems as though George Mitchell was not engaged in debate about the significance of the music he found. He found living music but music that was living in small communities. It was traditional music, distant from the popular music of the day. Some of the practitioners had given it up but they consented to play for him. Some practiced to be ready to record. A few performers he found became known to national and international blues audiences. R.L. Burnside was one. Precious Bryant was another.

We’re playing a small selection of the recordings Mitchell made. The recordings show the creativity of local blues players but also the backward gaze of most of these traditional performers.

On the Show:

Professor Longhair – Corey Lueck & the Smiokewagon Blues Band – Downchild Blues Band – Carolina Chocolate Drops & Joe Thompson – Teddy Williams – Precious Bryant – Cecil Barfield – Robert “Nighthawk” Johnson – Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – Big Jay McNeely –  and others

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.msu.mcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until February 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 (January 27h)

Not yet determined.

cmc

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