Deeper Roots will spend time with a variety of blues styles this week with no focus but the roots of feeling blue, themes about being blue, junker’s blues, bar fly blues, cold rainy day blues, and the dark and somber blues. We’ll feature the urban sounds of Lowell Fulson and Bobby Blue Bland, the smooth sounds of T-Bone Walker, and we’ll also pick on some early jazz and blues vocals including Bertha “Chippie” Hill, Hattie McDaniels, and Memphis Minnie.
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Artist
Title
Album
Buy
2
Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band
In the Wee Wee Hours
Hoodoo Man Blues
3
R.L. Burnside
Poor Black Mattie
From Mississippi To Chicago
4
Lowell Fulson
Black Widow Spider Blues
Juke Box Blues 1946-1948
5
Sweet Papa Tadpole
Black Spider Blues
Too Late, Too Late, More Newly Discovered Titles And Alternate Takes. Vol. 4
6
Jimmy Witherspoon
Bar Fly Blues
Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Stars
7
John Hammond
Evolution Blues
Found True Love
8
Eddie Lang
You Got to Crawl Before You Walk
Juke Joint Blues 1950's-1960's
9
Muddy Waters
Good Morning School Girl
Folk Singer
10
Rory Block
Cypress Grove Blues
Hard Luck Child: A Tribute To Skip James
11
Kansas City Kitty (Thelma Holmes)
Double Trouble Blues
Four Women Blues – The Victor / Bluebird Recordings Of Memphis Minnie, Mississippi Matilda, Kansas City Kitty and Miss Rosie Mae Moore
12
Berha 'Chippie' Hill
Some Cold Rainy Day
Heartbreakers Blue & Lonely
13
Hattie McDaniels
Boo Hoo Blues
Female Blues Singers, Complete Recorded Works. Volume 12
14
Memphis Minnie;Kansas Joe
Don't Want No Woman (Have T' Give My Money To) [2002 Remastered]
First Time I Met the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down series)
15
Victoria Spivey & Lonnie Johnson
I Got The Blues So Bad
Idle Hours
16
Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends
Tonight's the Night
Kansas City Blues 1944-1949 Disc 1
17
Hadda Brooks
Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
I've Got News For You [Disc 1]
18
Bobby "Blue" Bland
I Pity The Fool
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: The Road To Memphis