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Show 72: The Delta Blues Tradition (Unamplified)
This is the raw country bedrock: the Delta as a gathering place for bottleneck guitar, rough-edged vocals, dance rhythms, and haunted storytelling. The playlist makes the simple case that the Delta was not one man or one sound, but a whole hard world of overlapping players and styles.
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This is the raw country bedrock: the Delta as a gathering place for bottleneck guitar, rough-edged vocals, dance rhythms, and haunted storytelling. The playlist makes the simple case that the Delta was not one man or one sound, but a whole hard world of overlapping players and styles.
Tracklist
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop And Listen Blues | Mississippi Sheiks | 1 | - | |
| 2 | West Jackson Blues | Mississippi Sheiks | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Howling Tom Cat Blues | Bo Carter | 1 | - | |
| 4 | Low Down Dirty Dog Blues | Son House | 1 | - | |
| 5 | (Mississippi) County Farm Blues | Son House | 1 | - | |
| 6 | Little Leg Woman | Big Joe Williams | 1 | - | |
| 7 | Terraplane Blues - SA.2586-1 | Robert Johnson | 1 | - | |
| 8 | Stop Breakin' Down Blues - DAL.399-1 | Robert Johnson | 1 | - | |
| 9 | Ramblin' On My Mind - SA.2583-1 | Robert Johnson | 1 | Yes | - |
| 10 | So Glad You're Mine | Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup | 2 | Yes | - |
| 11 | 34 Blues | Charley Patton | 2 | - | |
| 12 | Dust My Broom | Elmore James | 2 | Story | |
| 13 | Mississippi Bottom Blues | Kid Bailey | 2 | - | |
| 14 | Friar's Point Blues | Robert Nighthawk | 2 | - | |
| 15 | Big Fat Mama Blues | Tommy Johnson | 2 | - | |
| 16 | Spread my Raincoat Down | David "Honeyboy" Edwards | 2 | - | |
| 17 | Someday Baby Blues | Sleepy John Estes | 2 | Story | |
| 18 | That's No Way To Get Along | Robert Wilkins | 2 | Yes | - |
| 19 | The Train I Ride | Mississippi Fred McDowell | 3 | Yes | - |
| 20 | My Monday Woman Blues (Take 1) | Jim Jackson | 3 | - | |
| 21 | B.D. Woman's Blues | Lucille Bogan | 3 | - | |
| 22 | Mean Old Twister | Kokomo Arnold | 3 | - | |
| 23 | The Panama Limited | Bukka White | 3 | - | |
| 24 | Billy Lyons An Stack O'Lee | Furry Lewis | 3 | - | |
| 25 | Highway 51 | Tommy McClennan | 3 | - | |
| 26 | Saturday Blues | Ishman Bracey | 3 | - | |
| 27 | Black Spider Blues | Robert Lockwood, Jr. | 3 | Yes | - |
| 28 | Money Never Runs Out | Cannon's Jug Stompers | 4 | Yes | - |
| 29 | Hello Central (Give Me 209) | Lightnin' Hopkins | 4 | - | |
| 30 | Go Down Old Hannah | Lightnin' Hopkins | 4 | - | |
| 32 | Plow Hand Blues | Big Bill Broonzy | 4 | - | |
| 33 | How Long Buck | Skip James | 4 | - | |
| 34 | Little Girl, Little Girl | Pinetop Perkins | 4 | - | |
| 35 | Spoonful | Howlin' Wolf | 4 | Story | |
| I Believe I’ll Go Back Home | John Lee Hooker | - | |||
| You Got To Take Sick And Die Some Of These Days - Plantation Recording | Muddy Waters | - |