The Legends of the Rocking Dutchman - episode 113
Legends Mix
Some real obscure stuff today in the mixed bag of tunes that I present you. There's the story of a record label that got only two releases, working from a Chicago record store facing a marketplace where local bluesmen used to hang out and play. In the makeshift studio in the front of that store, the harp of Little Walter was recorded for the first time.
Also the story of a blueswoman about whom nothing is known but the fifty recordings she did around 1940 for Vocalion and OKeh. The bawdy lyrics about sex, drugs and alcohol only gives us a clue what kind of woman she must have been - but it's no more than a guess.
Playlist
- Red Saunders - Boot 'Em Up
- Big Maceo Merriweather - Worried Life Blues
- Orhum Brown & Little Walter - Ora Nelle Blues
- Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - How Long Blues
- Savannah Churchill & Her All-Star Seven - Two Faced Man
- Peetie Wheatstraw- Big Apple Blues
- Albinia Jones - What's The Matter With Me (Don't You Wear No Black)
- Louis Jordan - I'm Alabama Bound
- Yas Yas Girl (Merline Johnson) - He May Be Your Man
- Willie Mae Thornton With The Bill Harvey Band - Let Your Tears Fall Baby
- Ivory Joe Hunter - Boogin' in the Rain
- Champion Jack Dupree - Angola Blues
- T-bone Walker - Prison Blues
- Leroy Dallas - Jump Little Children
- Rufus Beacham & His Tampa Toppers - My Baby And Me
- Hubert Robinson - Boogie The Joint
- Elmore Nixon - Married Woman Blues
Outtro:
- Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
- Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
- Bill Doggett - Oof!
- Cab Calloway - A Smo-o-o-oth One
- Count Basie - Texas Shuffle
- Count 'Red' Hastings - Sugar Cane
- Harlem Hamfats - Growling Dog
- John Hardee - Cobblestones