Show 56: The Blues Supergroup Tradition
This show gathers the all-star outfits and prestige combinations where big names meet in one room. It is about chemistry, yes, but also about how the blues has often been sold back to listeners through summit meetings and dream-team lineups.
I'm your host. For today's 56th episode of the Copacetic Blues Show, we will be moving from our fifteen-part Alphabet Blues series and embarking back on the blues-train formula that you all know and love. I'll be spinning the most important team-ups of blues legends and the incredible synergies that result when these musical worlds collide. Because you know I always try to start each episode building off the last one, we'll be beginning with the duet of Piedmont blues artists consisting of Curley Weaver and Blind Willie McTell and their track "A to Z Blues" that they recorded for Regal Records in 1949.
This show gathers the all-star outfits and prestige combinations where big names meet in one room. It is about chemistry, yes, but also about how the blues has often been sold back to listeners through summit meetings and dream-team lineups.
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 O'Clock Blues | B.B. King,Bobby Blue" Bland" | - | |||
| A to Z Blues | Blind Willie McTell,Curley Weaver | - | |||
| Be Careful | Elmore James,John Brim | - | |||
| Beale Street Blues | Louis Armstrong | - | |||
| Beale Town Bound | Stokes And Sane | - | |||
| Blues Before Sunrise | Champion Jack Dupree,Willie Dixon,Clifton James | - | |||
| Conversation Blues | Lightnin' Hopkins,Sonny Terry | - | |||
| Down Home Blues | James Cotton,Junior Wells,Billy Branch,Jackson | - | |||
| Dust My Broom | Eddie Taylor,Odie Payne,Robert Stroger,Hubert Sumlin,Carey Bell,Sunnyland Slim | - | |||
| Everytime I Get to Drinking | Sunnyland Slim,Odie Payne,Robert Stroger,Eddie Taylor,Hubert Sumlin,Carey Bell | - | |||
| How Long | John Brim,Pinetop Perkins | - | |||
| I'm Feeling Alright | Big Mama Thornton,Muddy Waters Blues Band | - | |||
| I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town | Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five | - | |||
| Insane Asylum | Koko Taylor,Willie Dixon | - | |||
| Jot's Blues | T-Bone Walker,Joe Turner,Otis Spann | - | |||
| Key To The Highway | Buddy Guy,Junior Wells | - | |||
| Life Is Like That | Big Bill Broonzy,Memphis Slim,Sonny Boy Williamson II | - | |||
| Liverpool Drive | Chuck Berry | - | |||
| Long Distance Call | Muddy Waters,Otis Spann,Mike Bloomfield,Paul Butterfield,Donald duck" Dunn | - | |||
| M & O Blues | Memphis Slim,Roosevelt Sykes | - | |||
| My Baby Done Changed the Lock on the Door | Taj Mahal,Ry Cooder | - | |||
| Red Rooster | Howlin' Wolf,Eric Clapton,Steve Winwood,Bill Wyman,Charlie Watts,Hubert Sumlin | - | |||
| Spoonful | Bo Diddley,Muddy Waters,Howlin' Wolf | - | |||
| Stackalee | Big Bill Broonzy,Memphis Slim,Sonny Boy Williamson II | - | |||
| That's My Partner | Elvin Bishop,Smokey Smothers,Bishop | - | |||
| The Feelin' Is Gone | John Lee Hooker,Canned Heat | - | |||
| Trouble in mind | Sonny Terry,Brownie McGhee,Louisana Red,Lightnin' Hopkins | - | |||
| Tupelo (Pt. 1) | Albert King,Pops Staples,Steve Cropper | - | |||
| Yer Blues | The Dirty Mac | - |