"DOWN HOME" #198 Thursday, November 29, 2001 Hosted by Chuck Taggart, email chuck (at) downhome (dot) org Visit The Gumbo Pages

THE NEVILLE BROTHERS - My Blood [YELLOW MOON/A&M] GEORGE LEWIS AND HIS RAGTIME BAND - When the Saints Go Marching In [JAZZ FUNERAL IN NEW ORLEANS/Tradition] JAMES BOOKER - Junco Parner [JUNCO PARTNER/Hannibal] TREMÉ BRASS BAND - Chinatown, My Chinatown [GIMME MY MONEY BACK/ Arhoolie] BUDDY & JULIE MILLER - Little Darlin' [BUDDY & JULIE MILLER/ Hightone] ALISON KRAUSS + UNION STATION - The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn [NEW FAVORITE/Rounder] GRAM PARSONS - A Song For You [GP/Reprise] STEVE & JUSTIN EARLE - Candy Man [AVALON BLUES: A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT/Vanguard] WASHBOARD SAM - Diggin' My Potatoes [BIG BILL BROONZY AND WASHBOARD SAM/ Chess-MCA] REV. GARY DAVIS - Death Don't Have No Mercy [REVEREND GARY DAVIS AT NEWPORT/Vanguard] LONNIE JOHNSON - She's Making Whoopee In Hell Tonight [HOT FINGERS/Arpeggio] JAMES COTTON - Mystery Train [IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR/Just A Memory] I'd dug out the Rhino "R&B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues" box set this week for the first time in a while, and have been really enjoying it. I thought I'd share some of it with you, 'cause this is American music too. WILLIE MAE "BIG MAMA" THORNTON - Hound Dog LLOYD PRICE - Lawdy Miss Clawdy SHIRLEY & LEE - Feel So Good SMILEY LEWIS - I Hear You Knockin' THE ROBINS - Smokey Joe's Cafe BOOZOO CHAVIS - 'Tite Fille [DOWN HOME ON DOG HILL/Rounder] Boozoo's final studio recordings, made just before his death earlier this year. Fantastic stuff, with the extra spice of David Greely's fiddle and Sonny Landreth's unmistakeable slide guitar. JASON FREY & TRAVIS MATTE WITH LAGNIAPPE - Two-Step de Rougeau [A LA VIEILLE MANIÈRE/La Louisianne] CLÉOMA BREAUX with JOE FALCON and OPHY BREAUX - Prenez Courage (Take Courage) [ABBEVILLE BREAKDOWN/Columbia] STEVE RILEY & THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS - La crève du faim/Starvation Two-Step [HAPPYTOWN/Rounder] OYSTERBAND - WHen I'm Up I Can't Get Down [HOLY BANDITS/Cooking Vinyl] JUNE TABOR - Barbry Ellen [ROSA MUNDI/Green Linnet] MARTIN CARTHY - A Stitch in Time [live on "Gumbo", 5/15/1993] A song by Martin's brother-in-law Mike Waterson, performed live on my old radio show at another station ... somewhere on the Westside, I forget. JODY STECHER & KATE BRISLIN - Bear Creek Blues [SONGS OF THE CARTER FAMILY/Appleseed] GARY JOHNSTON - Down Home Rag [TRADITIONAL FIDDLE MUSIC OF THE OZARKS, VOL. 2: ON THE SPRINGFIELD PLAIN/Rounder]

 

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