Geographic
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.
Host Narration
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36Tracks
31Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
Tracklist
| # | Track | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop And Listen Blues | Mississippi Sheiks |
| 2 | West Jackson Blues | Mississippi Sheiks |
| 3 | Howling Tom Cat Blues | Bo Carter |
| 4 | Low Down Dirty Dog Blues | Son House |
| 5 | (Mississippi) County Farm Blues | Son House |
| 6 | Little Leg Woman | Big Joe Williams |
| 7 | Terraplane Blues - SA.2586-1 | Robert Johnson |
| 8 | Stop Breakin' Down Blues - DAL.399-1 | Robert Johnson |
| 9 | Ramblin' On My Mind - SA.2583-1 bridge | Robert Johnson |
| 10 | So Glad You're Mine bridge | Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup |
| 11 | 34 Blues | Charley Patton |
| 12 | Dust My Broom 📖 Story | Elmore James |
| 13 | Mississippi Bottom Blues | Kid Bailey |
| 14 | Friar's Point Blues | Robert Nighthawk |
| 15 | Big Fat Mama Blues | Tommy Johnson |
| 16 | Spread my Raincoat Down | David "Honeyboy" Edwards |
| 17 | Someday Baby Blues 📖 Story | Sleepy John Estes |
| 18 | That's No Way To Get Along bridge | Robert Wilkins |
| 19 | The Train I Ride bridge | Mississippi Fred McDowell |
| 20 | My Monday Woman Blues (Take 1) | Jim Jackson |
| 21 | B.D. Woman's Blues | Lucille Bogan |
| 22 | Mean Old Twister | Kokomo Arnold |
| 23 | The Panama Limited | Bukka White |
| 24 | Billy Lyons An Stack O'Lee | Furry Lewis |
| 25 | Highway 51 | Tommy McClennan |
| 26 | Saturday Blues | Ishman Bracey |
| 27 | Black Spider Blues bridge | Robert Lockwood, Jr. |
| 28 | Money Never Runs Out bridge | Cannon's Jug Stompers |
| 29 | Hello Central (Give Me 209) | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| 30 | Go Down Old Hannah | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| 32 | Plow Hand Blues | Big Bill Broonzy |
| 33 | How Long Buck | Skip James |
| 34 | Little Girl, Little Girl | Pinetop Perkins |
| 35 | Spoonful 📖 Story | Howlin' Wolf |
| 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 |