Show 43: Alphabet Blues, Pt. 3: Black & Blue

I'm your host. For today's 43rd episode of the Copacetic Communion Blues Show, we'll be resuming our Alphabet Blues series where I aim to spin, for you, every musically significant blues label from A to Z. Last episode we heard a good chunk of the B's, and today we'll be finishing off that big bowl of B's blues labels with Black and White Records, W.C. Handy's Black Swan Records, Blind Pig Records, and last but certainly not least, Bluesville Records. Up first we've got the electric slide guitar, accompanied by a horn section, and T-Bone Walker's vocals that cracked like a whip over the blues landscape of the '40s, thus opening the door and drawing an unprecedented wave of new blues fans from all over the nation. Here's "Stormy Monday Blues" by the often imitated, never duplicated, T-Bone Walker.