Show 11: The British Blues Revival
This is the British end of the transmission line, where young white bands learned old Black American blues records and sent them back across the Atlantic at full volume. The show is about admiration, imitation, and the strange way revival can both preserve and distort the source.
I'm your host, Ol' Mr. Read, and you're listening to the Copacetic Communion Blues Show. On today's episode, we'll be playing songs from the mid-'60s British Invasion, which was comprised of young British blues musicians inspired, like myself, by the sounds of rock and rhythm and blues that had come from us blues artists during the prior few decades. Up first is public enemy number one of this invasion. Here's "Money (That's What I Want)."
This is the British end of the transmission line, where young white bands learned old Black American blues records and sent them back across the Atlantic at full volume. The show is about admiration, imitation, and the strange way revival can both preserve and distort the source.
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Money (That's What I Want) | The Beatles | 1 | - | |
| 2 | Bald Headed Woman | The Who | 1 | - | |
| 4 | I Can't Quit You Baby | Willie Dixon,John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers | 1 | - | |
| 5 | Worried Life Blues | The Animals | 1 | - | |
| 6 | Milk Cow Blues | The Kinks | 1 | - | |
| 7 | Rollin' And Tumblin' | Cream | 1 | - | |
| 8 | Bright Lights, Big City (feat. Van Morrison) | Them,Van Morrison | 1 | Yes | - |
| 10 | Born Under A Bad Sign | Cream | 2 | - | |
| 12 | Spoonful | Cream | 2 | - | |
| 13 | What's A Matter Baby | Small Faces | 2 | - | |
| 14 | I'm A King Bee | The Rolling Stones | 2 | - | |
| 15 | Baby Let Me Take You Home | The Animals | 2 | - | |
| 16 | Confessin' The Blues | The Rolling Stones | 2 | - | |
| 17 | I Got My Mojo Working | The Zombies | 2 | - | |
| 18 | Road Runner | The Zombies | 2 | Yes | - |
| 19 | Sitting On Top Of The World | Cream | 3 | Yes | - |
| 20 | Boom, Boom | The Yardbirds | 3 | - | |
| 21 | Dimples | The Spencer Davis Group | 3 | - | |
| 22 | Don't Look Back (feat. Van Morrison) | Them,Van Morrison | 3 | - | |
| 23 | Mona (I Need You Baby) | The Troggs | 3 | - | |
| 24 | Sweet Little Sixteen | The Hollies | 3 | - | |
| 25 | Just a Little Bit (feat. Van Morrison) | Them,Van Morrison | 3 | - | |
| 26 | Maybellene | Gerry & The Pacemakers | 3 | - | |
| 27 | House Of The Rising Sun | Gerry & The Pacemakers | 3 | Yes | - |
| 29 | I Ain't Superstitious | Jeff Beck | 4 | - | |
| 30 | Smokestack Lightning | Manfred Mann | 4 | - | |
| 31 | Stormy Monday Blues | Manfred Mann | 4 | - | |
| 32 | Ramblin' On My Mind | Robert Johnson,John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers,Eric Clapton | 4 | - | |
| 33 | All Your Love | Otis Rush,John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers,Eric Clapton | 4 | - | |
| 34 | Shame, Shame, Shame | The Searchers | 4 | - | |
| 35 | Trouble in Mind | Peter And Gordon | 4 | - | |
| 36 | Pretty Thing | The Pretty Things | 4 | Yes | - |
| 37 | Rock Me Baby | Savoy Brown Blues Band | 5 | Yes | - |
| I Wish You Would | The Yardbirds,Eric Clapton | - | |||
| I'm A Man | The Who | - | |||
| Lawdy Miss Clawdy - 2019 | The Dave Clark Five | - | |||
| You Shook Me | Jeff Beck,Rod Stewart | - |