Episode #56 The Influence of Robert Johnson

07/18/19 • 59 min

Part 2 of our Robert Johnson tribute in honor of the new biography of Robert Johnson "Up Jumped The Devil" by Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlowe. I explore the influence of Robert Johnson on fellow Mississippi musicians, all who left Mississippi for Chicago to create the post war electric blues scene and subsequently influence all of American music. 1. Calvin Frazier - Highway Man (1938 Detroit LOC recording) 2. Robert Junior Lockwood - Take A Little Walk With Me (Bluebird 1941) 3. Robert Junior Lockwood - Little Boy Blue (Bluebird 1941) 4. David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Worried Life (1942 LOC) 5. Muddy Waters - Country Blues (LOC 1941) 6. Muddy Waters - Kind Hearted Woman Blues (Chess 1948) 7. Elmore James - Dust My Broom (1951 Trumpet) 8. Elmore James - Roll and Tumble (1960 Fire) 9. Johnny Shines - Ramblin' (1951 JOB) 10. Johnny Shines - Fish Tail (1951 JOB) 11. Johnny Shines - Two Steps From Hell (1974) 12. Abe McNeill - Steady Rollin' Man (1967 George Mitchell Recordings) 13. Houston Stackhouse - Sweet Home Chicago 14. Lonnie Pitchford - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (1989 Deep Blues Documentary)

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Episode #55 The Roots of Robert Johnson

In honor of the release of the new biography of Delta Blues legend Robert Johnson "Up Jumped The Devil" by Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlowe, I put together an episode exploring the musicians and records that influenced the young Robert Johnson. People that influenced him directly such as Charlie Patton, Son House and Willie Brown as well as numerous artists he would've only heard on records in the 1920's and 30's: 1. Freddie Spruell - Milk Cow Blues (1926) 2. Blind Blake - Georgia Bound (1927) 3. Lonnie Johnson - Life Saver Blues (1927) 4. Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll and Tumble Blues (1929) 5. Charlie Patton with Willie Brown - Some Summer Day pt. 1 (1930) 6. Willie Brown - Future Blues (1930) 7. Son House with Willie Brown - Walking Blues (Test pressing 1930) 8. Son House - Preaching The Blues pts. 1 & 2 (1930) 9. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (1931) 10. Skip James - 22-20 Blues (1931) 11. Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues (1934) 12. Peetie Wheatstraw - Police Station Blues (1931) 13. Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell (1935) 14. Scrapper Blackwell - Kokomo Blues (1928)