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

Posted on 04/22/2005 7:55:24 PM PDT by 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

 

 

 


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To: Lady Jag; Radix
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.

1,381 posted on 04/23/2005 6:52:41 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ next campaign is Operation 4th of July~)
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To: Old Sarge

~Manhattan Transfer~Sunny Side of the Street~

~Hold on Sarge, this is a swinger~

1,382 posted on 04/23/2005 6:52:46 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: Bethbg79

Well, Frank, anyway.


1,383 posted on 04/23/2005 6:53:25 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Honor and Dignity)
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To: Lady Jag

You get your comedy from the comic books, eh?


1,384 posted on 04/23/2005 6:53:29 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: GodBlessUSA

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


1,385 posted on 04/23/2005 6:54:19 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

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


1,386 posted on 04/23/2005 6:55:02 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: GummyIII

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


1,387 posted on 04/23/2005 6:55:16 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ next campaign is Operation 4th of July~)
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To: Lady Jag

*snicker*


1,388 posted on 04/23/2005 6:55:28 PM PDT by Bethbg79 (God bless our Troops and their families!)
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To: Bethbg79

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!


1,389 posted on 04/23/2005 6:56:32 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: international american

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


1,390 posted on 04/23/2005 6:58:26 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Honor and Dignity)
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To: bentfeather

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

LOVE it!


1,391 posted on 04/23/2005 6:58:44 PM PDT by Old Sarge (In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
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To: Bethbg79

You like El Chopo?

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


1,392 posted on 04/23/2005 6:59:44 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Old Sarge

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.


1,393 posted on 04/23/2005 7:01:56 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: Kathy in Alaska; Radix

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.


1,394 posted on 04/23/2005 7:02:58 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Honor and Dignity)
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To: txradioguy; Old Sarge
SSarge beat you out....


1,395 posted on 04/23/2005 7:05:21 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ next campaign is Operation 4th of July~)
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To: Lady Jag; Bethbg79; All
"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............

1,396 posted on 04/23/2005 7:05:26 PM PDT by Radix (What is wrong with an occasional frontal lobotomy?)
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To: blackie; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; MoJo2001; Fawnn; bentfeather; HiJinx; tomkow6; Radix; Spotsy; ...

DJ SUNSHINE!

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

Dizzy Gillespie ~ Sweet & Lovely

Jimmy Dorsey ~ Clarinet Polka


1,397 posted on 04/23/2005 7:05:50 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ next campaign is Operation 4th of July~)
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To: Old Sarge; Colonel_Flagg; laurenmarlowe; Bethbg79; All

~Sinatra~Strangers In the Night~


1,398 posted on 04/23/2005 7:06:52 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather

me


1,399 posted on 04/23/2005 7:07:12 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: bentfeather

me


1,400 posted on 04/23/2005 7:07:14 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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