Show 80: USA Blues, Pt. 5: Indiana to Kansas
This chapter keeps the state-by-state project rolling through the middle of the country, where blues, jazz, folk, and country often rub shoulders. It documents how the interior states helped feed the national current even when they are not the first names folks say out loud.
I'm your host. For today's 80th episode of the CC Blues Show, we'll be resuming our USA Blues series, where I take you state by state playing the blues musicians that sprung up in every one of 'em, except the hard ones like Alaska and Idaho. Last week, we heard Hawai'i to Illinois, and tonight we'll be going from Indiana to Kentucky to just a little bit of Louisiana, which we'll finish off next week. But up first we have the most happenin' cats to ever come out of Gary, Indiana, and no, it's not Hoagy Carmichael or David Lee Roth. It's Tito Jackson doing a pristine rhythm guitar and a very, very young Michael Jackson on the mic. Here's "They Call It Stormy Monday," recorded on the first take, and it sounds like it. Take it away, Tito.
This chapter keeps the state-by-state project rolling through the middle of the country, where blues, jazz, folk, and country often rub shoulders. It documents how the interior states helped feed the national current even when they are not the first names folks say out loud.
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stormy Monday | The Jackson 5 | 1 | - | |
| 2 | Messin' With the Kid | Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Stones In My Passway | John Mellencamp | 1 | - | |
| 4 | Ice Cream Man | Van Halen | 1 | - | |
| 5 | D-Natural Blues | Wes Montgomery | 1 | - | |
| 6 | Lazy River Including Basin Street Blues | Phil Harris | 1 | - | |
| 7 | Indiana Avenue Stomp | Montana Taylor | 1 | - | |
| 8 | Hong Kong Blues | Hoagy Carmichael | 1 | - | |
| 9 | Re-Enlistment Blues | Merle Travis | 1 | Yes | - |
| 10 | Blue Moon Of Kentucky | Bill Monroe | 2 | Yes | - |
| 11 | Blue Kentucky Girl | Loretta Lynn | 2 | - | |
| 12 | (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue | Edith Wilson | 2 | - | |
| 13 | Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee, Drinkin' Wine | Lionel Hampton | 2 | - | |
| 14 | I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry | The Everly Brothers | 2 | - | |
| 15 | The Year That Clayton Delaney Died | Tom T. Hall | 2 | - | |
| 16 | Highway 40 Blues | Ricky Skaggs | 2 | - | |
| 17 | Working Man Blues | The Osborne Brothers | 2 | - | |
| 18 | Champ Joe Louis | Bill Gaither | 2 | Yes | - |
| 19 | Yancey's Last Ride | Meade "Lux" Lewis | 3 | Yes | - |
| 20 | In the Evening - When the Sun Goes Down | Vann Walls;Michael Browne;Stephen Barry Band | 3 | - | |
| 21 | Bootleggin' Ain't Good No More | Blind Teddy Darby | 3 | - | |
| 22 | Tough Times | John Brim | 3 | - | |
| 23 | Don't Put That Thing On Me | Clifford Gibson | 3 | - | |
| 24 | Hootin' Owl Blues | Porter Grainger with Dolly Ross | 3 | - | |
| 25 | Worried 'Bout Him Blues | Edmonia Henderson | 3 | - | |
| 26 | Black Hearse Blues | Sara Martin;Sylvester Weaver | 3 | Yes | - |
| 27 | Guitar Rag | Sylvester Weaver | 4 | Yes | - |
| 28 | He May Be Your Man (But He Comes to See Me Sometimes) | Amanda Randolph and Her Orchestra | 4 | - | |
| 29 | Pine Grove Blues | Nathan Abshire | 4 | - | |
| 30 | Dark Clouds Rollin' | Silas Hogan | 4 | - | |
| 31 | Stormin' And Rainin' | Country Jim Bledsoe | 4 | - | |
| 32 | Thousand Miles from Nowhere | Clarence Edwards;Cornelius Edwards;Butch Cage | 4 | - | |
| 33 | Your Dice Won't Pass | Sally Doston;Smoky Babe;Hillary Blunt | 4 | - | |
| 34 | Goodbye Slim Harpo | Robert Pete Williams | 4 | - | |
| 35 | Forty-Four Blues | Tuts Washington | 4 | Yes | - |
| 36 | Kansas City | Judy Lynn | 5 | Yes | - |