Where Dead Voices Gather 2.0
2:00pm, 2-27-2015
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A distillation of a previous show, exploring a variety of black music styles recorded in the 1920s and '30s.
Emerging sounds of blues and jazz with roots in vaudeville, ragtime, and rural dance music.
- 2:01pm Banjoreno by Dixieland Jug Blowers on Harps, Jugs, Washboards & Kazoos (RST, 1926)
- 2:03pm Can't Sleep Blues by The Pebbles on Really the Blues? A Blues History (1893-1959) Vol. 1 (West Hill Radio Archives, 1926)
- 2:06pm Cocaine Blues by Luke Jordan on The Songster Tradition (Document , 1928)
- 2:09pm G. Burns is Gonna Rise Again by Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop on Songsters & Saints (Matchbox, 1928)
- 2:12pm Charmin' Betsy by Henry Thomas on Complete Recorded Works (Document, 1929)
- 2:18pm Shake It and Break It by Charley Patton on Founder of the Delta Blues (Yazoo)
- 2:20pm Washboard Cut Out by Bobbie Leecan & His Need More Band on Broadcasting the Blues (Document, 1927)
- 2:26pm Nobody's Business if I Do by Tommie Bradley on Good for What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Old Hat, 1932)
- 2:26pm Memphis Shakedown by Memphis Jug Band on Anthology of American Folk Music Vol. 4 (Revenant, 1934)
- 2:30pm He's in the Jailhouse Now by Memphis Sheiks (Memphis Jug Band) on Songsters & Saints (Matchbox, 1930)
- 2:33pm Easy Winner by Nap Hayes & Matthew Prater on String Bands (1926-1929) (Document, 1928)
- 2:36pm The Jazz Fiddler by The Mississippi Sheiks on Complete Recorded Works (Third Man , 1930)
- 2:40pm Rolling Log Blues by Lottie Kimbrough on I Can't Be Satisfied (Yazoo , 1928)
- 2:44pm Gang of Brown Skin Women by Papa Harvey Hull & Long "Cleve" Reed on The Songster Tradition (1927-1935) (Document, 1927)
- 2:47pm Oysters and Wine at 2 AM by Old South Quartette on The Early Negro Vocal Quartets Vol. 1 (Document, 1928)
- 2:50pm Southern Casey Jones by Jesse James on Anthology of American Folk Music Vol. 4 (Revenant, 1936)
- 2:53pm I'm Going Where the Chilly Winds Don't Blow by Papa Charlie Jackson on Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order (Document, 1925)
- 2:57pm Honey in the Rock by Blind Mamie Forehand on Really the Blues? A Blues History (1893-1959) Vol. 1 (West Hill Radio Archives, 1927)