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Show 82: USA Blues, Pt. 7: Louisiana to Maryland

This one does two jobs at once: it follows Louisiana's later keepers of the flame while also stretching the map into places less often tied to the blues outright. That contrast is the point: some states are strongholds, others are outposts, but all of them tell part of the American picture.

Host Narration

~600~ ^630 I'm / We concluded the first half hour with two Louisiana legends James Booker doing Leadbelly's Goodnight Irene followed by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band ^one ^of ^four ^Jelly ^Roll ^Morton songs honking their horns with Sidewalk Blues.

36Tracks
36Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
SeriesUSA Blues
TagsLouisianaregional surveytorchbearersbirthplace mappingAmerican roots
Genresbluescajunclassic blueszydecomodern blues
Tracklist
#TrackArtist
1I Need Your Love So BadIrma Thomas
2I Cry And Sing The BluesBuddy Guy
3What's WrongSugar Boy Crawford
4Congo MomboGuitar Gable
5I'm A King BeeSlim Harpo
6An Old Cow Hand From A Blues BandDave Bartholomew
7What A Diff'rence A Day MakesWalter Wolfman Washington
8Goodnight IreneJames Booker
9Sidewalk Blues bridgeThe Dirty Dozen Brass Band
10Mean Woman Blues bridgeJerry Lee Lewis
11Don't Mess With My Toot TootRockin' Dopsie, Jr.;Zydeco All-Stars;Fernest Arceneaux
12Joe Pete Got Two WomenJohn Delafose
13Blues into ZydecoLil' Buck Sinegal
14I Done Got Over ItLazy Lester
15LubertaRaful Neal
16This Time I'm Gone For GoodJohnny Adams
17Mother's LoveEarl King
18I Hate These Doggone Blues bridgeClarence "Gatemouth" Brown
19Iko Iko bridgeDr. John
20Stone CrazyPhil Guy
21Don't Take Advantage Of MeLonnie Brooks
23Da Thrill Is Gone From HereChris Thomas King;Tabby Thomas
24Midnight Turning Day BluesDick Curless
25Lost Highway - 1973 Studio Recording bridgeClarence White
26Sittin' On Top of The World bridgeBill Flagg
27John HenryLenny Breau
28Come Back BabyJohn Fahey
29Blue Ridge Mountain BluesBill Clifton
30Poor Katie RedEubie Blake
31Fine And MellowBillie Holiday
32Sunny Side Of The StreetChick Webb
34Steppin' Out With My BabyRuby Braff;Ellis Larkins
35Tishomingo BluesElmer Snowden;Cliff Jackson
36Road LadiesFrank Zappa
Sharecropper’s SonRobert Finley
Take the "A" TrainDuke Ellington