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Show 37: The Blues in the Mississippi Night Tradition
This chapter leans on blues as testimony: music tied to fear, segregation, memory, and the lived facts of Southern Black life. The tracks belong together because they hear the blues not just as entertainment, but as spoken social truth set to rhythm.
Host Narration
For today's 37th episode of the CC Blues Show, we'll be listening to Blues in the Mississippi Night as well as field recordings from southern prison farms and levee camps during the 1930s and '40s. We'll start with a field holler sung by C.B., an inmate at Parchman Farm Penitentiary recorded in the early 1940s. Here's "Whoa Buck," followed by a collection of work songs sung by inmate men with axes. Here's C.B.
45Tracks
19Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
Tracklist
| # | Track | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whoa Buck | C.B.,Alan Lomax |
| 2 | O 'Berta | Bull |
| 3 | Don't You Hear Po' Mother Callin'? | Hollie Dew,Bull |
| 4 | Rosie | C.B. And Ten Others With Axes,Alan Lomax |
| 5 | Murderer's Home | Jimpson |
| 6 | Lining Hymn | Unknown Artist |
| 7 | Early in the Mornin' | 22, Little Red, Tangle Eye & Hard Hair,Alan Lomax |
| 8 | Jumpin' Judy | Tangle Eye,Fuzzy Red,Hard Hair,Others,Alan Lomax |
| 9 | Black Woman | B.B And Six Others,Alan Lomax |
| 10 | Old Alabama | B.B And Six Others,Alan Lomax |
| 11 | No More, My Lawd | Jimpson And Men With Axes,Alan Lomax |
| 12 | Ham and Eggs | Lead Belly |
| 13 | Life Is Like That bridge | Big Bill Broonzy,Memphis Slim,Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 13 | Life Is Like That bridge | Memphis Slim |
| 14 | Conversation Begins bridge | Big Bill Broonzy,Memphis Slim,Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 15 | Conversation Continues - #1 | Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 16 | I Could Hear My Name A Ringin' | Memphis Slim,Sonny Boy Williamson II,Big Bill Broonzy |
| 17 | Conversation Continues - #2 | Big Bill Broonzy,Memphis Slim |
| 18 | 44 Blues 📖 Story | Roosevelt Sykes |
| 19 | 32-20 Blues - SA.2616-2 | Robert Johnson |
| 20 | Levee Camp And Prison Songs / Conversation Continues - #3 | Big Bill Broonzy,Memphis Slim |
| 21 | Conversation Continues - #4 bridge | Big Bill Broonzy,Memphis Slim |
| 22 | Conversation Continues - #5 bridge | Big Bill Broonzy,Memphis Slim |
| 23 | Conversation Continues - #6 | Big Bill Broonzy,Memphis Slim |
| 24 | Slow Blues | Memphis Slim |
| 25 | Fast Boogie | Memphis Slim |
| 26 | Black, Brown And White Blues 📖 Story | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 27 | Long Tall Mama | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 28 | Too Too Train Blues | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 29 | I Can't Be Satisfied | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 30 | Night Time Is The Right Time | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 31 | New Shake 'Em On Down | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 32 | Just A Dream | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 33 | Mean Old World (Tk. 1) bridge | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 34 | Got the bottle up and gone bridge 📖 Story | Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 35 | Susie Q | Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 36 | War Time Blues | Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 37 | You´ ve Been Foolin Round Tow | Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 38 | Bad Luck Blues | Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 39 | Insurance Man Blues | Sonny Boy Williamson II |
| 40 | Mother Earth | Memphis Slim |
| 41 | Lonesome | Memphis Slim |
| 43 | Let the Good Times Roll Creole bridge | Memphis Slim |
| Key to the Highway 📖 Story | Big Bill Broonzy | |
| Stackalee | Big Bill Broonzy,Memphis Slim,Sonny Boy Williamson II |