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Views of the Blues
Jul 1, 2024 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Blues
With Sunnyland Steve
The best Blues music in its cultural and historical context.
July birthdays
Performers born in July
12:01 PM |
| Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues Juke 50th. Anniversary Tribute to Little Walter Self-produced 2018 CD A fine harmonica player based in Chicago, Branch is also a blues educator
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12:04 PM |
| Michael Bloomfield Carmelita Skiffle Essential Blues 1964-1969 V/A Sony USA, Japanese Issue 1994 CD Born July 28, 1943, Bloomfield was an outstanding guitarist and part of the original Paul Butterfield Blues Band; he was a Chicago native; he died in 1981 of substance abuse
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12:09 PM |
| Roy Milton & His Solid Senders Hop Skip & Jump The Best of Jump & Jive! Prism 1990 CD Singer, drummer, and bandleader Milton was born in Oklahoma on July 31, 1907 and died in 1983
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12:12 PM |
| Francine Reed One Monkey (Don't Stop No Show) Essential Women in the Blues V/A House of Blues 1997 CD Born July 11, 1947 in Illinois, she is now 76 and is part of Lyle Lovett's band
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12:16 PM |
| Champion Jack Dupree & King Curtis Junker's Blues Blues at Montreux (Live) Atlantic 1973 LP Born July 4, 1910, pianist Dupree was indeed a champion boxer; recorded in 1971; he died in 1992
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12:31 PM |
| Larry Garner Ms. Boss Louisiana Swamp Stomp Honeybee 2010 CD Louisiana bluesman Garner won the International Blues Challenge in 1988; he was born July 8, 1952
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12:35 PM |
| Woody Guthrie Boll Weevil Blues R Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1989 CD The famed political activist and folk singer/songwriter and major influence on Bob Dylan was born in OK July 14, 1912; he died of Huntington's disease in 1967
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12:39 PM |
| Little Freddie King Trip to Detroit Jaw Jackin' Blues MadeWright Records 2020 CD A cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins, Fread Martin was born in Mississippi on July 19, 1940
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12:45 PM |
| Barrelhouse Chuck Stockyard Blues (feat. Billy Flynn) Remembering the Masters The Sirens Records 2016 CD A Columbus, Ohio native, pianist Chuck Goering lived until 2016; he was born July 10, 1958
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12:49 PM |
| The Butterfield Blues Band Driftin' and Driftin' R The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw Elektra USA 1967 LP This version of the band featured Elvin Bishop ("Pigboy Crabshaw") as guitarist
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1:02 PM |
| Blind Lemon Jefferson Long Distance Moan Moanin' All Over V/A Rykodisc 1996 CD The seminal Texas acoustic bluesman was born on either July 11, 1897, or Sept. 24, 1893; he died in 1929
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1:05 PM |
| Butterbeans And Susie What It Takes to Bring You Back The Story of the Blues Columbia 1969 LP Jodie Edwards (Butterbeans) of the singing comedy duo Butterbeans and Susie was born July 19, 1893 and died in 1967
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1:09 PM |
| Luther "Houserocker" Johnson A Fool's Advice Retrospectives Ichiban 1998 CD The guitarist was born July 15, 1939 and died in 2019 at age 79; he was one of three! Luther Johnsons who were guitarists in Muddy Waters's band, with Luther "Snakeboy" Johnson and Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
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1:13 PM |
| Roy Milton and His Solid Senders Junior Jives Essential West Coast Blues V/A Not Now Music 2012 CD
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1:16 PM |
| Syl Johnson Clean Up Man Back In the Game Delmark usa 1994 CD Part of a musical family, he was born on this date, July 1, in 1936 or 1938; he died in 2022; his brother was bluesman Jimmy Johnson
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1:20 PM |
| Mississippi John Hurt Avalon Blues 1928 Sessions CBS 1972 LP The legendary country bluesman was born either on July 3 or March 8 in 1893
; he died in 1966
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1:29 PM |
| Smokey Wilson Doctor Blues The Man from Mars Bullseye Blues 1997 CD Born in MS on July 11, 1936, guitarist Robert Lee Wilson spent most of his career in Los Angeles and died at age 79 in 2015
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1:35 PM |
| Kenny Brown Cocaine Bill Not the Same Old Blues Crap 3 Fat Possum 2004 CD Now 70 years old, guitarist Brown was born in Alabama on July 5, 1953
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1:38 PM |
| Willie Dixon Blues You Can't Lose Hidden Charms Capitol USA 1988 LP The great bass player and songwriter was born on July 1, 1915 and lived to age 76
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1:45 PM |
| Screamin' Jay Hawkins Call the Plumber Stone Crazy Bizarre/Straight CD Jalacy Hawkins was born July 18, 1929 in Cleveland, OH; he was an actor, film producer, and boxer as well as musician; he died in 2000
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1:48 PM |
| Lonnie Mack Oreo Cookie Blues Strike Like Lightning Alligator Records 1985 CD With Stevie Ray Vaughan; guitarist Mack was born July 18, 1941 in Indiana and died in 2016
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1:56 PM |
| Johnnie Johnson Key to the Highway Johnnie B. Bad V/A Nonesuch usa 2005 CD A West Virginia native, pianist Johnson lived
from July 8, 1924 until 2005; for many years he was Chuck Berry's pianist
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2:01 PM |
| Junior Kimbrough I'm in Love Most Things Haven't Worked Out Fat Possum 1997 CD Born July 28, 1930, he was an avatar of Mississippi hill country blues, characterized by insistent rhythm and little melody; he was only 67 when he died of a stroke and heart attack
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2:11 PM |
| Buddy Guy When My Left Eye Jumps R Left My Blues in San Francisco V/A MCA USA 1987 LP On July 30, 2024, famed guitarist George Guy will turn 88 years old! song from Aug. 1962
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2:15 PM |
| Long John Hunter West Texas Homecoming Ride with Me Alligator Records & Artist Mgmt., Inc. USA, www.alligator.com 1998 CD He was born July 13, 1931 in Louisiana and died in 2016; with T.D. Bell on second guitar
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2:22 PM |
| Georgia Tom & Tampa Red & Georgia Tom No Matter How She Done It Tampa Red the Guitar Wizard V/A Legacy/Columbia Japan 1994 CD The hugely influential guitarist Hudson Whittaker (Tampa Red); his colleague was "Georgie Tom," AKA Thomas Dorsey, who became a master of gospel; Dorsey was born on this date, July 1, in 1899 and died in 1993 at age 93; this song is from 1932
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2:26 PM |
| Pinetop Perkins Ida B Heaven V/A Blind Pig Records USA, www.blindpigrecords.com 2012 CD Born July 7, 1913 in MS, Joe Willie Perkins initially was a guitarist until a knife attack on his left arm made guitar playing difficult; he replaced Otis Spann as pianist in Muddy Waters's band and left after ten years to join the Legendary Blues Band; he was 97 when he died in 2011
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2:31 PM |
| Philipp Fankhauser & Margie Evans Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Unplugged Live at Mühle Hunziken) Unplugged Live at Mühle Hunziken Funk House Blues Productions 2016 CD Born in Louisiana on July 17, 1939, singer Marjorie Ann Johnson was 81 when she died in 2021; Fankhauser is a very good Swiss singer and guitarist
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2:40 PM |
| The James Cotton Band Keep Cooking Mama High Energy Buddah/Legacy 1975 LP The late, great harmonica player was born on this date, July 1, in 1935; he was one of Muddy Waters's many fine harmonica players; piano by James Booker; he couldn't sing for the last two decades of his life because of a throat problem, and he died in 2017
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2:46 PM |
| Blind Boy Fuller Keep Away from My Woman East Coast Piedmont Style Legacy/Columbia USA, Japanese Issue 1991 CD A native of North Carolina, Fulton Allen entered the world on July 10, 1904 and was only 36 when he died; he gradually became blind, totally by age 28; he was one of the most popular acoustic finger-picking guitarists of the Piedmont-style genre; song recorded in 1936
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2:49 PM |
| Larry Garner It's Killing Me Louisiana Swamp Stomp V/A Honeybee Entertainment 2010 CD
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2:54 PM |
| Louis Jordan & HisTympani Five Boogie Woogie Blue Plate The Best of Jump & Jive! Very popular in the 1940s, Jordan was born july 8, 1908; he was a bandleader, singer, and saxophone player; he died in 1975
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2:57 PM |
| Woody Guthrie John Henry R Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1989 CD
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3:01 PM |
| Michael Bloomfield Mary Ann Essential Blues 1964-1969 V/A Sony USA, Japanese Issue 1994 CD
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3:07 PM |
| Joe Liggins and his Orchestra Yeah Yeah Yeah Essential West Coast Blues Not Now Music 2012 CD Pianist, singer, and bandleader Liggins's birthday was July 9, 1916; he lived until 1987
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3:10 PM |
| Denise LaSalle Older Woman 24 Hour Woman Malaco Records 2010 CD She was born July 16, 1934 or 1939; she was known for her double entendre songs; she passed away in 2018
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3:15 PM |
| Johnnie Johnson Creek Mud Johnnie B. Bad V/A Nonesuch usa 2005 CD
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3:22 PM |
| Little Freddie King Unleashed da Dogs Jaw Jackin' Blues MadeWright Records 2020 CD
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3:27 PM |
| Sleepy John Estes Brownsville Blues R Live in Japan with Hammie Nixon Delmark 2014 CD Recorded in 1976
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3:33 PM |
| Barrelhouse Chuck Vicksburg Blues (feat. Lluis Coloma) Remembering the Masters The Sirens Records 2016 CD
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3:36 PM |
| Blind Boy Fuller I'm a Rattlesnakin' Daddy East Coast Piedmont Style V/A Legacy/Columbia USA, Japanese Issue 1991 CD Recorded in 1935
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3:40 PM |
| Luther "Houserocker" Johnson She Wants to Sell My Monkey Retrospectives Ichiban 1998 CD
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3:44 PM |
| Louis Jordan & HisTympani Five Texas and Pacific The Best of Jump & Jive! Prism CD
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3:49 PM |
| Champion Jack Dupree & King Curtis Sneaky Pete Blues at Montreux (Live) Atlantic 1973 LP Vocal and piano by Dupree, saxophone by Curtis
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3:56 PM |
| Tampa Red With Georgia Tom If You Want Me to Love You Tampa Red: The Guitar Wizard Sony 1994 CD From 1932
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