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Show 95: Shoulders of Giants Revisited

This is a return to the core builders, the players whose sound and songwriting fed whole branches of the series. Rather than just replaying favorites, the show reminds the listener which names hold the house up and why later music keeps leading back to them.

21Tracks
21Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
SeriesFinale
Tagsinfluencescanonfoundational artistsblues lineagerevisit
Genresbluesclassic bluescountry bluesragtimeboogie-woogie
Tracklist
#TrackArtist
1Moanin' At Midnight 📖 StoryHowlin' Wolf
2Life Is Like ThatMemphis Slim;Sonny Boy Williamson II;Big Bill Broonzy
3Worried Life BluesBig Maceo
4It Hurts Me Too 📖 StoryTampa Red
5Key to the Highway 📖 StoryBig Bill Broonzy
6Three O'clock BluesB.B. King
7Shame, Shame, ShameJimmy Reed
8Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday Is Just As BadT-Bone Walker
9The Memphis Blues (Or Mister Crump)Louis Armstrong
10How Long, How Long Blues 📖 StoryLeroy Carr
11Love in Vain - Take 1Robert Johnson
12Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - 78rpm VersionBessie Smith
13See See Rider BluesMa Rainey
14I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden SayJelly Roll Morton
15Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
16Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standin' on the Corner)Jimmie Rodgers
17Got The Bottle Up And GoneSonny Boy Williamson I
18Last Chance BluesCannon's Jug Stompers
19Hard Travelin' 📖 StoryWoody Guthrie
20Down The Dirt Road BluesCharley Patton
21Statesboro Blues 📖 StoryBlind Willie McTell