Legends Mix

One of the slogans of this program is "when times were hard and the music was great", and one of the blues on today's playlist proves how true that is. A dramatic, beautiful and heartbreaking song on loneliness, left alone and forgotten by friends and family, waiting for her death in the tuberculosis sanatorium "that the Lord has railroaded her to", as Victoria Spivey named it. T.B. struck hard in the African-American communities, back in the Depression years, when there was no money for anything like an adequate treatment.

Transcript

Playlist

Sam Price - Rib Joint
Lynn Hope - Move It
J.T. Brown - Sax-ony Boogie
Roy Milton - My Sweetheart
King Porter - Bumps Boogie
Buster Bennett - It Can Never Happen
Joe Liggins - Loosiana
Lonnie Johnson - Keep What You Got
Champion Jack Dupree - Rum Cola Blues
Elsie Williams - You Got Something There
Three Keys - Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn
Cab Calloway - Eadie Was A Lady
Duke Ellington - Move Over
Victoria Spivey - Dirty T.B. Blues
Sloppy Henry - Canned Heat Blues
Billy & Mary Mack with Clarence Williams - You Don't Want Much
Nina Reeves - Indiana Avenue Blues

Outtro:

Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce

The following music served as background music during the spoken parts:

Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds Of Joy - Bear Down
Frank 'Floorshow' Culley - That Girl
Georgia Washboard Stompers - Farewell Blues
Harlem Hamfats - Growling Dog
Ike Quebec - I.Q. Blues
Joe Houston - Windy City Hop
King Brady's Clarinet Band - Embarressement Blues (Sidewalk Blues)