USA Blues
Show 90: USA Blues, Pt. 15: Texas to Virginia
This is a broad-jawed survey chapter that keeps Texas in view while making room for less expected states farther out on the map. The thesis is plain: once you start listening by birthplace and lineage, the blues tradition turns up in places the shorthand histories barely mention.
35Tracks
35Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
Tracklist
| # | Track | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wasted Days And Wasted Nights | Freddy Fender |
| 2 | Papa Ain't Salty | Doug Sahm |
| 3 | Travelin' Blues | T-Bone Walker |
| 4 | I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man | Billy Preston |
| 5 | I Want To Take You Higher | Sly & The Family Stone |
| 6 | The Lone Prairie bridge | King Curtis |
| 7 | Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down bridge | Kris Kristofferson |
| 8 | Talkin' Karate Blues | Townes Van Zandt |
| 9 | Talking Birmingham Jam | Phil Ochs |
| 10 | Blues Man | Stephen Stills |
| 11 | I'm Tore Down | Freddie King |
| 12 | Got My Mojo Working | Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs |
| 13 | Honey Bee | Stevie Ray Vaughan |
| 14 | Dengue Woman Blues bridge | Jimmie Vaughan |
| 15 | Turtle Blues bridge | Big Brother & The Holding Company;Janis Joplin |
| 16 | Lone Star Blues | Edgar Winter;Keb' Mo' |
| 16 | Lone Star Blues | Delbert McClinton |
| 17 | Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo | Johnny Winter |
| 18 | Mushmouth Shoutin' | ZZ Top |
| 19 | Lovesick Blues | Wayne Hancock |
| 20 | Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills | Red Steagall |
| 22 | Rye Whiskey (Jack of Diamonds) bridge | John Lomax, Jr. |
| 23 | Motherless Children Have A Hard Time (Previously Unreleased) bridge | Blind Arvella Gray |
| 24 | A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues | The Osmonds |
| 25 | Be-Bop-A-Lula | Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps;Gene Vincent |
| 26 | In Care Of The Blues | Patsy Cline |
| 27 | Flowers On the Wall | The Statler Brothers |
| 28 | Salty Dog Blues | Roy Clark |
| 29 | Ridin' That Midnight Train | The Stanley Brothers |
| 30 | Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? | Pearl Bailey |
| 31 | Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean | Ruth Brown |
| 32 | Under The Spell Of The Blues bridge | Ella Fitzgerald;Chick Webb |
| 33 | Doin' The New Low Down bridge | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson;Don Redman |
| I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday) | Billy Joe Shaver | |
| Medley: Route 66 (Get Your Kicks On) / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Red Sails In the Sunset / Walkin' My Baby Back Home / It's Only a Paper Moon | Johnny Mathis |