USA Blues
Show 87: USA Blues, Pt. 12: North Dakota to Rhode Island
This is one of the oddball geography chapters, and that is exactly why it works. By sweeping across states that do not fit the stock blues map, the show proves the project's bigger point: American roots music runs wider than the usual history-book borders.
Host Narration
For tonight's 87th episode, we'll be resuming USA Blues, Part 11. We ended up all the way to North Carolina.
34Tracks
34Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
This is one of the oddball geography chapters, and that is exactly why it works. By sweeping across states that do not fit the stock blues map, the show proves the project's bigger point: American roots music runs wider than the usual history-book borders.
Tracklist
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take Good Care Of My Baby | Bobby Vee | 1 | - | |
| 2 | I Got A Man | Peggy Lee | 1 | - | |
| 3 | The City Of New Orleans | Lynn Anderson | 1 | - | |
| 4 | Mary's Goodbye Blues | Mary Osborne | 1 | - | |
| 5 | Unfortunate Blues | Lawrence Welk | 1 | - | |
| 6 | Branchline Blues | Chuck Suchy | 1 | - | |
| 7 | Basin Street Blues | Dean Martin | 1 | - | |
| 8 | Stormy Weather | Art Tatum | 1 | - | |
| 8 | Stormy Weather | Ethel Waters | 1 | - | |
| 9 | Sentimental Journey (with Les Brown & His Orchestra) | Doris Day;Les Brown & His Orchestra | 1 | Yes | - |
| 10 | Constipation Blues | Screamin' Jay Hawkins | 2 | Yes | - |
| 11 | Roll Jordan Roll | John Legend | 2 | - | |
| 12 | Give Me One Reason | Tracy Chapman | 2 | - | |
| 13 | Arkansas State Prison | Bobby Womack | 2 | - | |
| 14 | Join the Revelator - Radio Mix | Phil Keaggy | 2 | - | |
| 15 | Bo Weevil | Teresa Brewer | 2 | - | |
| 16 | Blue Shadows On The Trail | Roy Rogers | 2 | Yes | - |
| 17 | Poor Boy | Harry McClintock | 3 | Yes | - |
| 18 | Muleskinner Blues | Woody Guthrie | 3 | - | |
| 19 | It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry | Leon Russell | 3 | - | |
| 20 | Let's Have A Party | Wanda Jackson | 3 | - | |
| 21 | John Henry | Hoyt Axton | 3 | - | |
| 22 | Trouble in Mind | Jimmy Rushing | 3 | - | |
| 23 | Oklahoma Blues | Patti Page | 3 | - | |
| 24 | Just Walkin' in the Rain | Johnnie Ray | 3 | Yes | - |
| 26 | I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues - Take 2 | Billie Holiday | 4 | - | |
| 27 | Steel Rail Blues | Jim Croce | 4 | - | |
| 28 | I've Got a Woman / I'm Henry VIII, I Am | Bobby Vinton | 4 | - | |
| 29 | Short Fat Fannie | Frankie Avalon | 4 | - | |
| 30 | The Birth Of The Blues | Bobby Rydell | 4 | - | |
| 31 | You Can't Get Me - Acoustic | Joan Jett & the Blackhearts | 4 | - | |
| 32 | You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover | Patti LaBelle | 4 | - | |
| 33 | Love Slipped In | Duke Robillard | 4 | - | |
| 34 | Wild Man Blues | Bobby Hackett | 4 | - |