Required Listening
Show 2: The Amplified Blues Tradition
This is the blues after the current gets turned on. The set shows how amplification changed the feel, the attack, and the reach of the music without cutting it loose from its country roots.
34Tracks
23Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
This is the blues after the current gets turned on. The set shows how amplification changed the feel, the attack, and the reach of the music without cutting it loose from its country roots.
Tracklist
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light | AWALK | 1 | - | |
| 2 | Worried Life Blues | Jimmy Reed | 1 | Story | |
| 2 | Worried Life Blues | Little Walter | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Devil Got My Woman | Skip James | 1 | Story | |
| 4 | Standing At My Window | Arthur Big Boy" Crudup" | 1 | - | |
| 5 | My Baby Left Me | Arthur Big Boy" Crudup" | 1 | - | |
| 6 | Open The Door, Richard! | Jack McVea | 1 | - | |
| 7 | I Can't Quit You Baby | Willie Dixon | 1 | Story | |
| 9 | Bring It On Home | Sonny Boy Williamson II | 1 | Yes | - |
| 10 | T-Bone Blues | T-Bone Walker | 2 | Yes | Story |
| 12 | Spoonful | Howlin' Wolf | 2 | Story | |
| 13 | Smokestack Lightnin' | Howlin' Wolf | 2 | Story | |
| 14 | Rollin' Stone | Muddy Waters | 2 | Story | |
| 15 | Walking By Myself | Jimmy Rogers | 2 | - | |
| 16 | Who Do You Love | Bo Diddley | 2 | Story | |
| 17 | Dust My Broom | Elmore James | 2 | Story | |
| 18 | All Your Love | Magic Sam | 2 | Yes | Story |
| 19 | This Train | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | 3 | Yes | Story |
| 20 | Ramblin' Man | Hank Williams,Drifting Cowboys | 3 | - | |
| 21 | How Blue Can You Get? | B.B. King | 3 | - | |
| 22 | Southbound Train | Muddy Waters | 3 | Story | |
| 25 | Louise | Howlin' Wolf | 3 | - | |
| 26 | Old Black Mattie | Junior Kimbrough | 3 | Yes | - |
| 27 | She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like a Willow Tree) | John Lee Hooker | 4 | Yes | Story |
| 28 | Trouble No More | Muddy Waters | 4 | - | |
| 29 | Come On | Chuck Berry | 4 | - | |
| 30 | Mary Had A Little Lamb | Buddy Guy | 4 | - | |
| 31 | You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had | Muddy Waters | 4 | - | |
| 32 | Sitting On Top Of The World | Howlin' Wolf | 4 | - | |
| 33 | It Serves You Right To Suffer | John Lee Hooker | 4 | - | |
| 34 | My Own Version of You | Bob Dylan | 4 | Story | |
| Money | John Lee Hooker | - | |||
| Nine Below Zero | Sonny Boy Williamson II | - | |||
| Rollin' And Tumblin' - Pt. 1 | Muddy Waters | - |