Show 77: USA Blues, Pt. 2: California to Florida
This leg widens the road, showing how blues feeling took root in far-flung places and changed shape without losing its backbone. Moving from the West Coast across the South, blues history is not just a Mississippi story but a national spread of local voices.
For today's 77th episode of the Copacetic Communion Blues Show, we'll be resuming our United States of America Blues series, where I take you state by state, in alphabetical order, playing the best blues musicians each state has to offer. Last week we got up to Arkansas.
This leg widens the road, showing how blues feeling took root in far-flung places and changed shape without losing its backbone. Moving from the West Coast across the South, blues history is not just a Mississippi story but a national spread of local voices.
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midnight Train - Demo | The Monkees | 1 | - | |
| 2 | Summertime Blues | The Beach Boys | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Memphis | Jan & Dean | 1 | - | |
| 4 | My Baby Left Me | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 1 | - | |
| 5 | Mississippi Delta Blues | Merle Haggard;The Strangers | 1 | - | |
| 6 | Rollin' & Tumblin' | Bonnie Raitt | 1 | - | |
| 7 | Baby, Please Don't Go | Big Jay McNeely | 1 | - | |
| 8 | Willie and the Hand Jive | Johnny Otis | 1 | - | |
| 9 | I Just Wanna Make Love To You | Jimmy Smith;Dr. John;Etta James | 1 | Yes | - |
| 10 | Mainline Prosperity Blues | Mimi And Richard Fariña | 2 | Yes | - |
| 11 | Walkin' Blues | Grateful Dead | 2 | - | |
| 12 | Worried Blues | Michael Cooney | 2 | - | |
| 13 | Lollipop Mama | William Clarke | 2 | - | |
| 14 | The Train Kept A-Rollin' | Sugarloaf | 2 | - | |
| 15 | Going Back to Colorado | Zephyr | 2 | Yes | - |
| 16 | Delaware Slide | George Thorogood & The Destroyers | 3 | Yes | - |
| 17 | Ida Red | Clifford Brown | 3 | - | |
| 18 | 900 Miles | Cisco Houston | 3 | - | |
| 19 | Tell Me Baby Blues | Ida Goodson | 3 | - | |
| 20 | Depression's Gone From Me Blues | Blind Blake | 3 | - | |
| 21 | Blues (I Ain't Got No Mama Now), Pt. 1 | Gabriel Brown;John & Rochelle French | 3 | - | |
| 22 | Bassett Hound | Johnnie Bassett;The Bill Heid Trio | 3 | Yes | - |
| 23 | Paris Blues | The Doors | 4 | Yes | - |
| 24 | T For Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1) | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 4 | - | |
| 25 | Steady Rollin' Man | Dickey Betts and Great Southern | 4 | - | |
| 26 | Big Mouth Blues - 1973 Live Version | Gram Parsons | 4 | - | |
| 27 | Done Somebody Wrong | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | 4 | Yes | - |
| 28 | Money Is the Name of the Game | Buster Benton | 5 | Yes | - |
| Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad | Dead & Company | - |