Show 33: Newport's Legacy in Blues, Pt. 1
Newport made the blues visible to a new crowd, for better and worse. This first chapter shows how festival stages turned older artists into revival heroes and brought rural and urban blues into the same public frame.
For today's 33rd episode of the Copacetic Communion Blues Show, I will be highlighting a historically significant period of blues history where some of the greatest folk, jazz, and blues musicians graced a stage in Newport, Rhode Island. During 1958, the first major cohort of blues singers attended and set the stage for future blues musicians at Newport. At that year's performance, five important blues singers showed up: Chuck Berry, Big Maybelle, Dinah Washington, Big Joe Turner, and Ray Charles. Up first is Mr. Berry's phenomenal introduction to the crowd, followed by his song "School Days." Here's Berry.
Newport made the blues visible to a new crowd, for better and worse. This first chapter shows how festival stages turned older artists into revival heroes and brought rural and urban blues into the same public frame.
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | School Days | Chuck Berry | 1 | - | |
| 2 | No Money Down | Chuck Berry | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Baby Please Don't Go | Big Maybelle | 1 | - | |
| 4 | The Blues | Big Maybelle | 1 | - | |
| 4 | The Blues (Ray's Blues) | Ray Charles | 1 | - | |
| 5 | Shake Rattle and Roll | Big Joe Turner,Pete Johnson | 1 | - | |
| 6 | Back Water Blues | Dinah Washington | 1 | Yes | - |
| 8 | The Midnight Special | Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee | 2 | - | |
| 9 | Living with the Blues | Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee | 2 | - | |
| 10 | Long Gone | Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry | 2 | - | |
| 11 | Key To The Highway | Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry | 2 | - | |
| 12 | Samson And Delilah | Rev. Gary Davis | 2 | Yes | Story |
| 13 | Candy Man | Mississippi John Hurt | 3 | Yes | - |
| 14 | Stagolee | Mississippi John Hurt | 3 | - | |
| 16 | Devil Got My Woman | Skip James | 3 | Story | |
| 17 | Clean Up At Home | Sleepy John Estes | 3 | - | |
| 18 | Bulldog Blues | Robert Pete Williams | 3 | Yes | - |
| 19 | I've Got My Mojo Working | Muddy Waters | 4 | Yes | - |
| 20 | Goodbye Newport Blues | Muddy Waters | 4 | - | |
| 21 | I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man | Muddy Waters | 4 | - | |
| 22 | Hobo Blues | John Lee Hooker | 4 | - | |
| (I Wish I Was In) Heaven Sitting Down | Robert Wilkins | - | |||
| Coffee Blues | Mississippi John Hurt | Story | |||
| I Double Double Do Love You | Jesse Fuller | - | |||
| Introduction | Chuck Berry | - | |||
| Johnny B. Goode | Chuck Berry | - | |||
| On My Way From Texas | Robert Pete Williams | - | |||
| San Francisco Bay Blues | Jesse Fuller | Story | |||
| Send Me to the Electric Chair | Dinah Washington | - | |||
| Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad | John Lee Hooker | - |