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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.

Host Narration

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.

36Tracks
36Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
SeriesUSA Blues
TagsMidwestregional surveycrossroadsAmerican rootsblues geography
Genresbluesclassic bluesragtimecountry bluesclassic country
Tracklist
#TrackArtist
1Stormy MondayThe Jackson 5
2Messin' With the KidBaby Huey & The Baby Sitters
3Stones In My PasswayJohn Mellencamp
4Ice Cream ManVan Halen
5D-Natural BluesWes Montgomery
6Lazy River Including Basin Street BluesPhil Harris
7Indiana Avenue StompMontana Taylor
8Hong Kong BluesHoagy Carmichael
9Re-Enlistment Blues bridgeMerle Travis
10Blue Moon Of Kentucky bridgeBill Monroe
11Blue Kentucky GirlLoretta Lynn
12(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and BlueEdith Wilson
13Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee, Drinkin' WineLionel Hampton
14I'm so Lonesome I Could CryThe Everly Brothers
15The Year That Clayton Delaney DiedTom T. Hall
16Highway 40 BluesRicky Skaggs
17Working Man BluesThe Osborne Brothers
18Champ Joe Louis bridgeBill Gaither
19Yancey's Last Ride bridgeMeade "Lux" Lewis
20In the Evening - When the Sun Goes DownVann Walls;Michael Browne;Stephen Barry Band
21Bootleggin' Ain't Good No MoreBlind Teddy Darby
22Tough TimesJohn Brim
23Don't Put That Thing On MeClifford Gibson
24Hootin' Owl BluesPorter Grainger with Dolly Ross
25Worried 'Bout Him BluesEdmonia Henderson
26Black Hearse Blues bridgeSara Martin;Sylvester Weaver
27Guitar Rag bridgeSylvester Weaver
28He May Be Your Man (But He Comes to See Me Sometimes)Amanda Randolph and Her Orchestra
29Pine Grove BluesNathan Abshire
30Dark Clouds Rollin'Silas Hogan
31Stormin' And Rainin'Country Jim Bledsoe
32Thousand Miles from NowhereClarence Edwards;Cornelius Edwards;Butch Cage
33Your Dice Won't PassSally Doston;Smoky Babe;Hillary Blunt
34Goodbye Slim HarpoRobert Pete Williams
35Forty-Four Blues bridgeTuts Washington
36Kansas City bridgeJudy Lynn