FReeper Canteen ~ Canteen Music Dedication: Tribute To The Blues ~ 23 APR 2005

The Canteen Deejays

[MoJo2001]

 

 

~ The Canteen Music Dedication ~
(Saturday Night Jukebox)

Welcome to all of our Troops, Veterans, and their families!! The Canteen Music Dedication has always been and will continue to be for you!! Thank you for joining us each week!!
 

 

~ Music Dedication ~
Tribute To The Blues
*We couldn't list everyone! So? Don't complain!

The Canteen Deejays wish to dedicate this to Ms.Behavin, Mr.Behavin, mylife,
acad1228, and all Blues Music Fans out there!!

The Beginning Of The Blues - The Early Artists! (1920s and earlier artists)
"Dirty Blues"
*Some of the recordings are very old. We tried to find the best recordings from
all the artists. Also, you'll find the women singers were just as fabulous if not
more so than their male counterpart.

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Minnie Wallace	The Old Folk Started	Memphis Minnie	Me & My Chauffer
Henry Thomas	Run Mollie Run	Willie Walker	Dupree Blues
Mississippi John Hurt	Stack O'Lee Blues	Hattie Hudson	Doggone My Good Luck Soul
Charley Patton	Mississippi Bo Weevil Blues	Blind Willie Johnson	It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
Rev. Gary Davis	Candy Man	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Match Box Blues
Blind Boy Fuller	Rag Mama Rag	Victoria Spivey	Hollywood Stomp
Bessie Smith	Beale Street Mama	Blind Blake	Skeedle Loo Doo Blues
Ida Cox	Wild Women Don't Have The Blues	Furry Lewis	Kassie Jones
Edith Wilson	Popa-Mama Blues	Sippie Wallace	Suitcase Blues

 

The Blues
 

Born out of slavery and necessity, "The Blues" has transformed the musical landscape into one of the cornerstones of all popular American music enjoyed today. With it's roots deeply sowed on the plantations in the South, the rise of African Americans after the Civil War gave way to a musical genre that has captivated folks from around the world.

In the beginning, it was merely a "holler" to field slaves to let them know that the slave master was coming. It was a way to protect and warn other slaves. From there, it became "store porch" entertainment for blacks in the South.

It's heritage was born of African slaves brought to America. It's roots are deeply Southern at it's core. However, it spans from the Delta (Mississippi), Texas, St. Louis, Memphis, and Chicago.

To educate people about the true origins and beginning of the Blues, we've decided to take you on a musical journey from the beginning and progress from there.

 

Delta Blues

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Robert Johnson	Preaching Blues	R.L. Burnside	Jumper On The Line
Mississippi Fred McDowell	Done Left Here	Son House	Walkin' Blues
Asie Payton	Goin' Back To The Bridge	Geechie Wiley	Last Kind Words Blues
Tommy Johnson	Cool Drink Of Water Blues	Willie Brown	Future Blues 1930
Louise Johnson	On The Wall	Bukka White	Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
Big Bill Broonzy	The Bank's Blues	Big Joe Williams	Baby Please Don't Go
Skip James	I'm So Glad	Robert Belfour	Black Mattie

 

Blues Tidbits

Bukka White & BB King are cousins.

Robert Lockwood was Robert Johnson's stepson at one point.

Many of the artists that we are playing could fit into more than one category of The Blues. In fact, many of the Blues artist actually migrated elsewhere and recorded their albums in various parts of the country.

Many of the Blues artist tend to have the same "nicknames". For example, "Red", "Magic", "Blind", "Slim", etc....

Many northerners were unaware of Blues music before it hit the radio. During WWI & WWII, they were introduced to Blues music from their Southern counterparts. Ironic they would have to travel to Europe in order to find out about music in their own country.

Blind Blake and a few other Blues artists were never to be heard from again after they had "commercial" success in the black communities. The rumors still point to lynchings.

Sonny Boy Williamson ( Chicago Blues) found out about Sonny Williamson II through "King Biscuit Time". "King Biscuit" was the black radio show that played all the current blues hits at that the time. Sonny Boy Williamson II's name is actually Rice Miller.
 

Texas Blues

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Ramblin Thomas	Groundhog Blues	Texas Bill Day	Elm Street Blues
Black Ace	You Gonna Need My Help Someday	T-Bone Walker	Gotta Break Baby
Dallas String Band	Dallas Rag	Texas Alexander	Double Crossing Blues
Little Hat Jones	Hurry Blues	Bernice Eddwards	Ninth Street Stomp
Bobbie Cadillac	Easin' In	Jack Ranger	Thieving Blues

Harmonica Blues

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
The Memphis Jug Band	Sun Brimmer's Blues	De Ford Bailey	Up Country Blues
Jazz Gillum	Harmonica Stomp	Sonny Boy Williamson	You Can Lead Me
Sonny Terry	Blowing The Blues	Elder Roma Wilson	Better Get Ready
Snooky Pryor	Boogy Fool	Papa Lightfoot	After-While Blues
Junior Wells	Hoodo Man Blues	Good Rockin' Charles	Don't Start Me Talking
Charles Musselwhite	Key To The Highway	Whispering Smith	Texas Flood
Howlin' Wolf	Moanin' At Midnight	Little Walter	Juke

 

"Play Some Blues, Chick"
*In other words, this thread is already long!
We're wrapping it up! Sorry we couldn't fit everyone!
You'll probably recognize more artists here!
 

Artist	Song	Artist	Song
Koko Taylor	Wang Dang Doodle	BB King	Buzz Me
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup	Dig Myself A Hole	Barbecue Bob	Ease It To Me Blues
Big Mama Thornton	You Don't Move Me No More	Champion Jack Dupree	Skit Skat
Elmore James	Please Baby Set A Date	Buddy Guy	The Train I Ride
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown	Salt Pork, West Virginia	Big Joe Turner	Cafe Society Rag
Billie Holiday	Lady Sings The Blues	Etta James	If I Can't Have You
Jessie Mae Hemphill	Honey Bee	Fenton Robinson	Baby Please Don't Go
Blind Willie McTell	Southern Can Mama	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Trouble In My Mind
Alberta Hunter	I Got Myself A Workin Man	Floyd McDaniel	Christopher Columbus
Leadbelly	Pick A Bale Of Cotton	Pinetop Perkins/ Hubert Sumlin	She Walks Right In

 

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Just got an email from a friend. She drives The Wall (the traveling one) from town to town.

This morning, Saturday, I took off for MA and got as far as Fishkill, NY and will drive onto MA tomorrow. I will meet the state police and many motorcycles at a rest stop on the MA turnpike, and they will escort me into Boylston. A fun part of the job. We set up on Wednesday and will be open until Monday..tear down and on Tuesday, go to East Haven, CT, set up for the week, tear down and on the following Tuesday, move to Billerica, MA.

I got to see it here in Anchorage a couple years ago. WOW! Very moving.

[Soaring Feather]

~Manhattan Transfer~Sunny Side of the Street~
~Hold on Sarge, this is a swinger~

[Lady Jag]

Well, Frank, anyway.

[international american]

You get your comedy from the comic books, eh?

[mylife]

Poor GBU ;)

I love The Carey films.

My old boss was in operation petticoat and says that Carey was a class act in real life as well

[international american]

All they have in Billerica are ranches on stilts, and bad restaurants : )

[Kathy in Alaska]

OH, Gummy....*sigh* That is a beautiful tribute to our military.

[Bethbg79]

*snicker*

[mylife]

They were small portions L0L but I was stuffed 1 and 1/2 plates well maybe 3/4 L0L

I highly recommend MR Bs CD Bonnie edwards rocks!

[Lady Jag]

I haven't read a comic book since before TV. What did I do from a comic book? Maybe it's a google thing.

[Old Sarge]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

LOVE it!

[mylife]

You like El Chopo?

I fifure it will be worth a grand by the time my boy gets it ;)

[Soaring Feather]

In the misty moonlight...
on the cobblestone path
the Lord and his Lady
considered a dance...

The plans were laid out with the greatest of care
that thousands of dancers would come for the Fair.

[Lady Jag]

That must be a big job driving the wall around. I've seen the real one a bunch of times but not the traveling one.

[Kathy in Alaska]

SSarge beat you out....

[Radix]

"This is Massachusetts. The only time Democrats laugh it is fake. Here, they look at you as if you're crazy which makes you laugh more, which makes them more crazy. It's great!"

OK,  I have been backtracking a thread of  comments for a bit, and I simply cannot find the true genesis of  certain comments. Screw it, I move on.......

I am reminded of a certain local (Boston area) radio commentator comments a while back concerning the fact that persons who appreciate music seem to think that the proper interpretations of Music and Lyrics does universally support a left wing agenda.

Personally, I think that there are times when persons with musical talents simply do not understand their own gifts.

Other times I think that certain gifted persons are simply willfully ignorant.

IMHO:  music, and verse are not Left or Right. Only the very ignorant would ever imagine that the contrary was so. If a musician or singer were to disagree with that notion then I would suggest that their talent is actually nothing more than superficial. That is to say, ultimately music and politics do not mix. Music being used as a criticism of Politics and the Society on the other hand makes perfect sense to me.

Rant......

As if Peter, Paul, and Mary were great. As if Bruce Springteen was not influenced by a certain Dan Peek (formerly of the rock group America) when he wrote Born in the USA! I see so many examples of what outside of the  music world  would and only could be called plagiarism. Music, just as certain scientific advancement is built upon the works of others. Gosh I am having trouble expressing myself in this rant.

The Democrat Party in the USA is an abomination. It is clearly a mutation which evolved from a group espoused to a failed agenda which endorsed slavery and also an agenda which was the sui generis of one of the schisms that has polarized our country for the last  forty plus years.

The Democrat Party only can be effective when it keeps people in conflict. The Democrats are divisive, and they are proponents of a plantation mentality. Now as ever, they endorse slavery yet they call it by a different name. They are Orwellian indeed.

End of Rant......

I need a drink............

[Kathy in Alaska]

DJ SUNSHINE!

Music Requests Incoming!
Thank you to everyone that requested music!!

Dizzy Gillespie ~ Sweet & Lovely

Jimmy Dorsey ~ Clarinet Polka

[Soaring Feather]

~Sinatra~Strangers In the Night~

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