Required Listening
Show 1: The Unamplified Blues Tradition
This show strips the blues back to wood, wire, breath, and voice. It makes the plain point that before bands got loud and amps got hot, the whole tradition was already there in solo guitars, field recordings, front-porch picking, and unvarnished singing.
35Tracks
27Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
Tracklist
| # | Track | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Be's Troubled - Plantation Recording | Muddy Waters |
| 2 | Whoa Buck | Alan Lomax |
| 3 | Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues | Skip James |
| 4 | It's Nobody's Fault But Mine | Blind Willie Johnson |
| 6 | Me and My Chauffeur Blues | Memphis Minnie |
| 7 | Automobile Blues | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| 8 | Last Kind Words bridge | Geeshie Wiley |
| 9 | Kind Hearted Woman Blues - SA.2580-1 bridge | Robert Johnson |
| 10 | Take a Little Walk With Me | Robert Lockwood, Jr. |
| 11 | Sweet Home Chicago - SA.2582-1 | Robert Johnson |
| 12 | El Paso Blues | Big Joe Williams |
| 13 | Terraplane Blues | Big Joe Williams |
| 14 | 34 Blues | Charley Patton |
| 15 | High Water Everywhere (Part 1) | Charley Patton |
| 16 | Sitting On Top Of The World | Mississippi Sheiks |
| 17 | You Got to Move | Mississippi Fred McDowell |
| 18 | Trouble So Hard | Vera Hall |
| 20 | Tupelo bridge 📖 Story | John Lee Hooker |
| 21 | Willie Mae | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 22 | Trouble in Mind 📖 Story | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 23 | Death Don't Have No Mercy 📖 Story | Rev. Gary Davis |
| 24 | Cool Drink of Water Blues | Tommy Johnson |
| 25 | Midnight Special 📖 Story | Lead Belly |
| 26 | You Got to Die | Blind Willie McTell |
| 28 | Ramblin' On My Mind - Take 1 bridge | Robert Johnson |
| 29 | Awful Dreams | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| 30 | Got The Bottle Up And Gone 📖 Story | Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 31 | Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed | Josh White |
| 32 | Dust My Broom | Robert Lockwood, Jr. |
| 33 | In the Evening | Robert Petway |
| 34 | Freight train | Elizabeth Cotten |
| 35 | Coffee Blues 📖 Story | Mississippi John Hurt |
| Looky, Looky, Yonder / Black Betty / Yellow Women's Doorbells | Lead Belly | |
| Match Box Blues (4446) | Blind Lemon Jefferson | |
| Saint James Infirmary | Snooks Eaglin |