Blues Parallels

2:00pm, 10-16-2015

Today's show features different American musical idioms tackling the same song. Slick urban blues, down-home string bands, hot jazz, country...you know how we do.

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Mr. Ghost Goes to Town - October 16, 2015

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2:00pm Mr. Ghost Goes to To Town by Zeke Manners & His Swing Billies on Park Avenue Hillbillies And West End Cowboys (Country Novelty Songs) (Collectors Choice)
2:03pm It's TIght Like That by Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band on AC/DC Blues (Stash )
2:05pm Bucket's Got a Hole In It by Washboard Sam on Complete Recorded Works (Document)
2:08pm Come Down To My House by Washboard Rhythm Kings on Casey Bill Weldon- Complete Recorded Works (Document)
2:15pm It's Tight Like That by McKinney's Cotton Pickers on Anthology of Scat Singing (Masters of Jazz)
2:17pm Brown Skin Girls by Cripple Clarence Lofton on Cripple Clarence Lofton & Walter Davis (Yazoo)
2:20pm Midnight Special by Big Bill Broonzy on Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 6 (Document )
2:22pm You Shouldn't Do That by Casey Bill Weldon on Bottleneck Guitar Trendsetters of the 1930s (Yazoo )
2:26pm New Dirty Dozen by Memphis Minnie on If You Take Me Back (Document)
2:29pm Gang of Brown Skin Women by Papa Harvey Hull & Long 'Cleve' Reed on The Songster Tradition (1927-1935) (Document)
2:31pm Sitting On Top of the World by Mississippi Sheiks on Complete Recorded Works (Third Man )
2:36pm Adam and Eve by Tommy Bradley & James Cole on Please Warm My Weiner (Yazoo )
2:39pm My Bucket's Got A Hole In It by Hank Williams on The Complete Hank Williams (Mercury)
2:41pm Steamboat Whistle Blues by Roy Acuff on MP3 (Okeh )
2:44pm Dirty Dozens by Speckled Red on AC/DC Blues (Stash )
2:47pm Sittin' On Top of the World by Howlin Wolf on The Complete Recordings (Chess )
2:50pm You Shouldn't Say That by The Delta Boys on Country Blues Classics (Blues Classics )
2:53pm Adam and Eve in the Garden by Bogus Ben Covington on Alabama Jug & String Bands (RST)
2:55pm KC Moan by Memphis Jug Band on Memphis Jug Band (Yazoo)
2:58pm Midnight Special by Lead Belly and The Golden Gate Quartet on - (-)