The Old Dingy Jukebox

Christian Gallo

The Old Dingy Jukebox features a wide variety of down home American music styles played from a diverse collection of 78 and 45rpm records. Each show takes the listener on an aural journey exploring the American musical heritage. The show’s repertoire is deep and wide with an emphasis on early to middle 20th century Americana. Styles played on the show include the blues, jazz, old time string bands, traditional folk music, honky tonk, bluegrass and early country music. Informative, yet entertaining, the show’s host, Christian Gallo, includes brief historical tidbits and anecdotes that accompany a selection of often rare or obscure recordings. Sit back and have a listen. Hope you enjoy the show

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Episode #10 - "Sugar Coated Cinders, Rubber Tired Hearses and Lazy Rivers"

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08/27/20 • 68 min

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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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Check out John’s Old Time Radio Show. Lots of great episodes featuring R. Crumb recorded from his record lair in France.

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

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Episode #28- "Reefer Headed Men, Puissant Manes and Crumbling Walls"

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11/14/22 • 76 min

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

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Episode #23- Jerry Garcia.

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11/07/21 • 69 min

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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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Acoustic Disc: https://acousticdisc.com/

Good ‘Ol Grateful Deadcast: https://www.dead.net/deadcast

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Episode #19 - History Addendum Episode One, PART ONE: "Goin' Up The Country" Race, Records and the American Musical Identity

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04/16/21 • 68 min

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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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Episode #14- A People’s Archive: Buried Stories, Radical Histories, and Folk Music. With Special Guests Dr. Cheryl Jimenez Frei and Matt Sayles

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12/09/20 • 108 min

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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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Episode #12- Down Home Music: Chris Strachwitz & Arhoolie Records

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10/16/20 • 82 min

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This episode of the Old, Dingy Juke Box features some of my favorite tracks from the great record label, Arhoolie Records. This great record label had a great impact on my musical development and music tastes when I was younger. It still does, and I often marvel at the great and varied output to be found on Arhoolie records. Founded by Chris Stachwitz in 1960, Arhoolie records was started out as an extension of Chris’ love for hunting down old 78rpm records of down home, traditional styles of music. Over the years Chris recorded many types of musicians in a wide variety of ethnic styles. Blues, Cajun, Zydeco, Jazz, Conjunto, Norteno, Western Swing, Country, Gospel and Klezmer are some examples of the styles Chris recorded and released on his label over the past four decades. Many of the musicians were often recorded on their “home turf” in beer joints, churches, front porches, gatherings, living rooms and dance halls. The records released on Arhoolie represent a fascinating snapshot into the deep and wide well of American vernacular music styles and are truly a national treasure.
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This Ain’t No Mouse Music” https://www.amazon.com/This-Aint-no-Mouse-Music/dp/B00QLC2H34

Down Home Music Store: https://www.downhomemusic.com/

Arhoolie Records
https://folkways.si.edu/arhoolieDown Home Music: A Journey Through The Heartland 1963
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Episode #13 - "Beer Thievery, Dead Dictators and Inebriated Truck Drivers"

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11/13/20 • 67 min

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For this episode of the Old DIngy Jukebox, I figured it being election time and all, it would be a good idea to feature records about drinking and politics. As it turns out, the show is mostly songs about drinking. I have a few records in my collection that are political in nature, but the more I started digging through the stacks the more I realized that at this point, the last thing people want to hear about is politics. So, with that in mind, I featured a few records that are political in nature,albeit politics from the 1930s and the 1950s. How quaint. 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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George Riddle “Set Up Another” Starday Records 1966
Chicago Blck Swans “You Drink Too Much” Conqueror 1937
Freddie Hart “Drink Up and Go Home” Columbia 1956
BIll Cox and Cliff Hobbs “FDR Is Back Again” Conqueror 1936
The Stanley Brothers “Little Glass of Wine” Rich-R-Tone 1948
Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan “Who Drank My Beer” Kicking Mule 1983
Lulu Belle & Scotty “I’m No Communist” Mercury 1952
Ray Anderson “Stalin Kicked The Bucket” Kentucky 1953
Whiskey Chimp “Tecate” Barely Right Now 2009
Matt Sayles and the Detroit Sportsmen's Congress “Old Man’s First Call” Manifest Refugees 2018
Webb Pierce “There Stands The Glass” Decca 1953
Charlie Walker “Bubbles In My Beer” Epic 1966
Lowe Stokes and His North Georgians “Home Brew Rag” Columbia 1928
Charlie Wilson’s Hayloft Boys “The Beer Party” Montgomery Ward 1933
Dave Dudley “Two Six Packs Away” Mercury 1965
Washboard Sam “I Drinks Good Whiskey” Bluebird 1937

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Episode #11- Labor Day Special: "Unwieldy Hammers, Big Boss Men and Mining Disasters"

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09/07/20 • 82 min

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In honor of Labor Day, this episode of the Old, Dingy Jukebox features songs revolving around the theme of work. I had a great time going through my records and finding a variety of songs from different styles, across different eras, that deal with a variety of experiences relating to work, employment and money. Looking through the discography, the first thing that stands out is the eclectic set list. From early blues, country music, and folk songs, to truckin songs and instrumental breakdowns, there’s something for everyone. The show’s breadth deals with lighthearted compositions as well as those of a more hard hitting nature. Hope you enjoy the show and please share with friends and family.
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Episode #7- "Truck Stops, Lazy and Desperate Men, Gooseballs and Fried Chicken."

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07/01/20 • 59 min

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This episode of the Old Dingy Jukebox features some of my favorite country 45s from the 1950s and 1960s. Ranging from obscure, small label 45s to the more well known artists like George Jones and Merle Haggard on major labels like Capitol and Decca. Overall, the variety found on these records will make for an enjoyable listen to enthusiasts of down home American music styles. Enjoy.

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Dick Mosely- Truck Stop Number Three. Tornado Records-1968
Lonnie Irving- Gooseball Brown. Starday Records-1960
Wynn Stewart- ‘Ol What’s Her Name. Capitol Records-1967
George Jones- I Woke Up From Dreaming. Musicor Records- 1966
Farmer Boys- I’m Just Too Lazy. Capitol Records- 1955
Donny Young- It’s Been A Long, Long Time For Me. Decca Records- 1958
Joe Maphis- Tennessee Two Step. Columbia Records- 1956
Vern Stovall- Movin’ Round. Longhorn Records- 1967
Carl Perkins- Let The JukeBox Keep Playing. Sun Records- 1955
Merle Haggard- The Longer You Wait. Capitol Records- 1966
The Cimarrons- Southern Fried Chicken. Zipp Records- 1956
Connie & Joe- Home Is Where The Heart Is. Starday Records- 1960
Buck Owens/Rose Maddox- Talk Of The Town. Capitol Records- 1963
Johnny Bond- Broke Disgusted and Sad. Columbia Records- 1951
Red Sovine- No Thanks Bartender. Decca Records- 1957
Wayne Raney- Young Widow Brown. Starday Records- 1964
Dick Mosely- Under the Double Eagle. Tornado Records-1968

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Episode #20 - "Humdingers, Monkeys and Crooked Yodels"

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05/25/21 • 70 min

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Today’s episode features some of my favorite records. Records that make me smile. Not necessarily records that make me laugh or chuckle, although those are here, but also records that simply make me smile, and shake my head. Make me smile in a sense of just how unusual or cool these records are. More like a shake my head in wonderment type of a smile. Hope you enjoy this episode of the Old Dingy Jukebox Podcast: Records That Make Me Smile: Humdingers, Monkeys, Biscuits and Crooked yodels. Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. Also, please go take a visit to the show's website olddingyjukebox.com and have a look around. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show.

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R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders- “Fine Artiste Blues” 1976
Billy Jack Wills and his Western Swing Band- “Cattle Call” 1951
Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters-’Ride That Mule” 1927
Mississippi Fred McDowell and Hunter’s Chapel Singers “Lay My Burden Down” 1966
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers “Monkey On A String” 1926
The Farmer Boys “Humdinger” 1955
The Georgia Sea Island Singers “Before This Time Another Year” 1959
Bernie Cummins “Mysterious Mose” 1930
The Hall Brothers “Little Mo-Hee” 1937
Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France “Sweet Georgia Brown” 1938
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys “Roly Poly”
Chris Bouchillion “The Medicine Show” 1927
Charlie Parker “Rabbit Chase” 1927
Sister O.M. Terrell “Going To that City To Die No More” 1953
Big Tweed “That One Girl At The Bar” 2009

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How many episodes does The Old Dingy Jukebox have?

The Old Dingy Jukebox currently has 33 episodes available.

What topics does The Old Dingy Jukebox cover?

The podcast is about Americana, History, Music, Music History, Podcasts, Blues, Jazz, Old Time Radio, Music Commentary and Country Music.

What is the most popular episode on The Old Dingy Jukebox?

The episode title 'Episode #27- Folklorist Alan Lomax and his Southern Journey 1959-60' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Old Dingy Jukebox?

The average episode length on The Old Dingy Jukebox is 73 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Old Dingy Jukebox released?

Episodes of The Old Dingy Jukebox are typically released every 29 days, 8 hours.

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The first episode of The Old Dingy Jukebox was released on May 1, 2020.

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