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This episode of the Old, Dingy Jukebox is a show without a theme. Every so often I’ll just comb through the records and pick some fun ones from across a variety of different genres. From 1950s honky tonk, early jazz, blues, western swing and a few instrumental guitar records, this show has something for everyone. Hope you enjoy the show and please share with friends and family. Also, please rank and review the show over at Apple podcasts, the more rankings and positive reviews really help the show. Thanks for listening and kindly follow the show on the various social media outlets.

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1. Tampa Red and his Chicago Five- “Let’s Get Drunk and Truck” Bluebird 6353 1936
2. Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys- “I’se A Muggin’ Numbers Game” Vocalion 3169 1936
3. The Hall Brothers- “Way Out There” Bluebird 6843 1937
4. R. Crumb and his Keep On Truckin’ Orchestra “Lazy River Blues” Ordinary 5000 1972
5. Dick Stratton and the Nite Owls- “Sugar Coated Love” Tennessee 776 1954
6. The Gentry Brothers- “Swanky” Dixie 45-890 1961
7. Sleepy John Estes- “Drop Down Mama” Brunswick 03562 1935
8. Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra “East St. Louis Toodle-O” 1927
9. Jimmy Heap and the Melody Masters- “Haunted, Hungry Heart” Imperial 8074 1950
10. The Fireballs- “Vaquero” Rank 2054 1960
11. Curley Williams and his Georgia Peach Pickers- “Grandma’s Turned Over Again” Columbia 37083 1948
12. Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers- “Leavin’ Home” Columbia 15116 1927
13. McKinney’s Cotton Pickers- “Beedle Um Bum” Victor 38052 1929
14. Tibby Edwards- “Try To Understand” Mercury 70454 1954

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Episode #28. Good Records. Enjoy a nice selection of records across a variety of styles. Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. Also, go take a visit to the show's new website olddingyjukebox.com and have a look around. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show. “Reefer Headed Men, Puissant Manes and Crumbling Walls”

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1. Blind Willie Johnson “If I Had My Way, I’d Tear This Building Down” Vocalion 19127
2. George & Earl “Done Gone” Mercury 1956
3. Don Rafael y su Orquesta “Carioca” Vocalion 1930
4. McKinney’s Cotton Pickers “Beedle Um Bum” Bluebird 1929
5. The Farmer Boys “Oh, How It Hurts” Capitol 1956
6. North Carolina Hawaiians “Soldiers Joy” Okeh 1928
7. Big Bill Broonzy “Match Box”
8. Lydia Mendoza “Piensa En Mi” Bluebird 1936
9. Billie Morgan “Life To Live” Starday 1959
10. Houston Stackhouse “Big Road Blues” George Mitchell Recordings, Dundee Mississippi, 1967
11. El Ciego Melquiades Rodriguez “Jalisco Nunca Pierda Bluebird 1938
12. Cab Calloway “Reefer Man” Brunswick 1932
13. Byron Parker & His Mountaineers “Married Life Blues” Bluebird 1941
14. Ukrainska Selska Orchestra “Polka Mazurka” Victor 1930
15. Josh White “Paul & Silas Bound In Jail” Conqueror 1935
16. Dixieland Jug Blowers “Memphis Shake” Victor 1927
17. Blind Willie Johnson “Rail Don’t Fall On Me” Columbia 1929

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Today’s episode is an examination and celebration of the musical roots of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia. Garcia’s musical roots begin in the early 1960s with traditional American folk music. With styles ranging from bluegrass, old time country music, folk, blues and jug band music, Garcia was a well known performer in SanFrancisco and Bay Area clubs. Around 1964-65 Jerry switched his energy from bluegrass banjo to the electric guitar after forming a rock band with fellow American down home music enthusiasts Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” Mckernan, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzman. The Warlocks, soon renamed the Grateful Dead became an extremely popular act in the SanFrancisco area and the rest, as they say, is history.

The format for this episode is semi-chronological in regard to Jerry Garcia’s music styles. A variety of styles are examined and is nowhere near a complete, in depth analysis of Jerry’s styles and influences. That could be a full length book. Rather, the show is a simple examination that looks at some of the original recordings that influenced Jerry and then mixes in snippets of how those recordings were manifested in Garcia’s style throughout the decades he was active as a performer up until his untimely death in August of 1995. Early recordings of Jerry in his many aggregations around the Bay Area folk scene have long been available as bootleg tapes as well as most, if not all, of the Grateful Dead shows from their 30 year career made possible through the Dead’s allowing of and encouragement of taping their live performances. There’s a lot out there to listen to and I recommend you seek out as many recordings as you can.

For an in depth dive on the Grateful Dead I highly recommend the official podcast of the Grateful Dead, The Good ‘Ol Grateful Deadcast as David Grisman’s record label, Acoustic Disc, which made many great recordings of Jerry playing traditional American music in the early 1990’s. See links below.

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Well, here's something new. The first episode of the spinoff project is now available. The Old Dingy Juke Box: History Addendum. These history heavy, music related, episodes are inspired by my interest in musicology and history as well as some of my favorite podcasts like Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" or Tyler Mahan Coe's "Cocaine and Rhinestones". Will I ever be as good as Dan Carlin? No. This is an experiment that I'm excited about, and frankly a little nervous about. Future history addendum shows will continue to include episodes written and produced by me, but also shows featuring the writings of musician/writer/guitar collector extraordinaire, Deke Dickerson. The usual shows that you're used to will continue to be released on a regular basis. So, here it goes...check out episode one, part one..."Goin' Up The Country": Race, Records and the American Musical Identity. Available on all podcast platforms. Please subscribe and share and go check out the show's website
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Today’s show of the Old Dingy Jukebox is a special themed one. This episode is a collection of songs that tell stories of past events or people; stories that in one way or another were marginalized, censored, sanitized, or buried, often because they dealt with histories considered too traumatic, contentious, or even a threat to those in power. Overall, the songs in today’s episode all recount histories that survived—or that were preserved and retold—through music, when they might have otherwise disappeared.

The idea for this episode came from my friend Cheryl Jimenez Frei, who is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. Dr. Frei used to live in Ventura California, while she was working on her PhD in history at the University of California Santa Barbara. I have talked on the show before about some of the origins of the Old Dingy Jukebox, with record listening parties my good friend Matt Sayles and I would have. As Matt’s wife, Cheryl would often get roped into our listening sessions too, and as a historian, she started up a conversation about songs as primary sources that can tell us a lot about the moment in which they were created.

That conversation led to a lesson plan she put together for a public history course she was teaching at UCSB at the time, focusing on how folk music, in many senses, has served as an archive—a people’s archive—preserving events, subjects, and stories that have been absent or silenced in “official” histories or records. Cheryl invited both Matt and I to give a guest lecture and play a few tunes for that class, and now a few years later, this episode is an extension of those conversations about folk music, public history, and memory.

Many people might think of folk music as only a US-American tradition, but the style and tradition exists in some form or another in countries all over the world. And in and in all of those places, music does the same: preserving the stories of the people. This episode reflects that diversity, with songs from Mexico, Chile, Ireland, and the US. Both Cheryl and Matt are guests on this episode so sit back and enjoy this history centered episode of the Old Dingy Jukebox: A People’s Archive: Buried Stories, Radical Histories, and Folk music

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