Where Dead Voices Gather (Part One)
5:00am, 7-25-2014
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Inspired by Nick Tosches' book of the same name, today's show explores songs that draw lines between the minstrel and "songster" tradition through vaudeville, ragtime, blues, jazz, and "hillbilly" music.
Pictured: The only known photo of bluesman and songster Luke Jordan
- 5:00am Lovesick Blues by Emmett Miller on American Yodeling 1911-1946 (Trikont)
- 5:03am Never No Mo Blues by The Rhythm Wreckers on White Country Blues (Sony)
- 5:05am I Ain't Got Nobody by Miff Mole with Sophie Tucker on MP3 (Okeh)
- 5:08am State Street Rag by Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan on String Ragtime: To Do This You Got to Know How (Yazoo)
- 5:10am Dallas Rag by Dallas String Band on String Ragtime: To Do This You Got to Know How (Yazoo)
- 5:16am She's in the Graveyard Now by Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band on Ruckus Juice & Chitlins (Yazoo)
- 5:19am He's In the Jailhouse Now by Memphis Sheiks (Memphis Jug Band) on Songsters & Saints (Matchbox)
- 5:22am I'm Gonna Start Me a Graveyard of My Own by Jim Jackson on Complete Recorded Discography (Document)
- 5:25am Won't You Be Kind by Luke Jordan on The Songster Tradition (Document )
- 5:28am Furniture Man by Lil McClintock on Songsters & Saints (Matchbox)
- 5:31am Riley the Furniture Man by The Georgia Crackers on Times Ain't Like They Used to Be (Yazoo)
- 5:37am Knockin Myself Out by Lil Green on Dope & Glory ( Trikont)
- 5:39am Cocaine Habit Blues by Memphis Jug Band on Memphis Jug Band (Yazoo)
- 5:42am Cocaine Blues by Luke Jordan on The Songster Tradition (Document )
- 5:46am Cocaine Blues by The Holy Modal Rounders on Indian War Whoop (ESP-Disk)
- 5:48am Tell it To Me by The Grant Brothers on Good for What Ails You (Old Hat)
- 5:51am Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash on Live at Folsom Prison (Columbia)
- 5:57am Oysters and Wine at 2 AM by Old South Quartette on The Early Negro Vocal Quartets Vol. 1 (Document)
- 6:00am G. Burns is Gonna Rise Again by Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop on Songsters & Saints (Matchbox)
- 6:03am Hey Lawdy Mama (The France Blues) by Papa Harvey Hull & Long "Cleve" Reed on The Songster Tradition (Document)
- 6:06am Gonna Tip Out Tonight by Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley on Songsters & Saints (Matchbox)
- 6:10am Adam and Eve in the Garden by Bogus Ben Covington on Alabama Jug & String Bands (RST)
- 6:12am Adam & Eve by Tommy Bradley & James Cole on Please Warm My Weiner (Yazoo)
- 6:15am The Jazz Fiddler by The Mississippi Sheiks on Complete Recorded Works (Third Man )
- 6:18am Cool Drink of Water by Tommy Johnson on Tommy Johnson (1928-1929) (Document)
- 6:24am Heebie Jeebies by Louis Armstrong on Anthology of Scat Singing ( Masters of Jazz)
- 6:27am I Ain't Got Nobody by Cliff Edwards on Sprigs of Time (Honest Jon's)
- 6:29am Yes Sir, That's My Baby by Gene Austin on MP3 (Victor)
- 6:32am Pussy Cat Rag by Old South Quartette on The Early Negro Vocal Quartets Vol. 1 (Document)
- 6:34am Pussy Cat Blues by Bo Carter on Banana in Your Fruit Basket (Yazoo)
- 6:39am Frankie & Johnnie by Jimmie Rodgers on The Essential Jimmie Rodgers (RCA)
- 6:42am Frankie by Mississippi John Hurt on Avalon Blues (Columbia )
- 6:46am Original Stack O' Lee Blues by Papa Harvey Hull & Long "Cleve" Reed on The Songster Tradition (Document)
- 6:48am Honey Won't You Allow Me One More Chance by Henry Thomas on Bull Doze Blues (Mississippi/Little Axe)
- 6:51am Kassie Jones by Furry Lewis on Furry Lewis in His Prime (Yazoo)
- 6:56am Shake It and Break It by Charley Patton on Founder of the Delta Blues (Yazoo)