USA Blues
Show 88: USA Blues, Pt. 13: South Carolina to Tennessee
This stretch picks up the Carolinas and moves toward Tennessee, tracing a band of music where blues, string-band sounds, and songster habits often mingle. It is a reminder that regional lines are useful, but they are never airtight.
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This stretch picks up the Carolinas and moves toward Tennessee, tracing a band of music where blues, string-band sounds, and songster habits often mingle. It is a reminder that regional lines are useful, but they are never airtight.
Tracklist
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swinging Shepherd Blues | Etta Jones;Junior Mance;Kenny Burrell | 1 | - | |
| 2 | Steamboat | The Drifters | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Stay - Version #4 - Slow & Dreamy | Maurice Williams;Zodiacs | 1 | - | |
| 4 | Frankie & Johnny | Brook Benton | 1 | - | |
| 5 | Learnin' The Blues | Freddie Green | 1 | - | |
| 6 | Don't Get Around Much Anymore | Cat Anderson;Cat Anderson All Stars | 1 | - | |
| 7 | Nobody Knows The Trouble | Dizzy Gillespie | 1 | Yes | - |
| 8 | Root Man Blues | Buddy Johnson | 2 | Yes | - |
| 9 | Hit That Jive, Jack | Skeets Tolbert | 2 | - | |
| 10 | Sobbin' Sister Blues | Clara Smith | 2 | - | |
| 11 | Trouble in Mind | Bertha "Chippie" Hill | 2 | - | |
| 12 | Ball and Chain Blues | Josh White | 2 | - | |
| 13 | He's in the Jailhouse Now | Pink Anderson | 2 | - | |
| 14 | You Got to Go Down | Rev. Gary Davis;Pink Anderson | 2 | - | |
| 15 | I'm Afraid Of Wimmin' | Arthur Smith | 2 | - | |
| 16 | Charleston Women Blues | Drink Small | 2 | Yes | - |
| 17 | You Don't Love Me | J. B. Hutto | 3 | Yes | - |
| 18 | Blues This Morning | Indigenous | 3 | - | |
| 19 | Folsom Prison Blues | Floyd Red Crow Westerman | 3 | - | |
| 20 | Diving Duck | Yank Rachell | 3 | - | |
| 21 | Milk Cow Blues | Howard Armstrong | 3 | - | |
| 22 | Gonna Need My Help Someday | Memphis Slim | 3 | - | |
| 23 | Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) | Bessie Smith | 3 | - | |
| 24 | Sugar Mama Blues | Sonny Boy Williamson I | 3 | Yes | - |
| 25 | Working Man Blues | Sleepy John Estes | 4 | Yes | - |
| 26 | Shelby County Workhouse Blues | Hambone Willie Newbern | 4 | - | |
| 27 | Pawnshop Blues | Brownie McGhee | 4 | - | |
| 28 | Blues Early, Early, Pts. 1 & 2 | Big Maybelle | 4 | - | |
| 29 | So Lonely | Johnny Ace;Johnny Otis | 4 | - | |
| 30 | Booted | Rosco Gordon | 4 | - | |
| 31 | 3 O'Clock in the Morning Blues | Ike & Tina Turner | 4 | - | |
| 32 | The Thrill Is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss) | Aretha Franklin | 4 | Yes | - |
| 33 | Sunny | Bobby Hebb | 5 | Yes | - |
| The "C.C. Rider" Stroll | Chubby Checker | - | |||
| The Alcoholic Blues | Deford Bailey | - | |||
| The Blues | Eartha Kitt | - | |||
| The Things That I Used To Do | James Brown | - |