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The Roadhouse 248

21 November 2009

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The 248th Roadhouse cuts a wide swath through the varying styles of blues. Elvin Bishop, Harrison Kennedy, Bessie Smith, Arthur Adams, and JJ Grey represent a lineup that’s diverse style, in era and in feel. Though there’s no real theme in this edition, it is, as always, another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard.

The Roadhouse Podcast 248 Show Notes

Debbie Davies
Okie Dokie Stomp
Vizztone
Holdin’ Court
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Johnnie Bassett
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
Mack Avenue Records
The Gentleman Is Back
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Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan
Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth
Ruf
On The Jimmy Reed Highway
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Elvin Bishop (with R.C. Carrier and Andre Thierry)
Black Gal
Delta Groove
The Blues Rolls On
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Ian Siegal
Catch 22
Nugene
Swagger
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Paul Rishell & Annie Raines
Black Eye Blues
Tone Cool
Goin’ Home
iTunes | eMusic

Harrison Kennedy
One Dog Barkin’
Electro-Fi
One Dog Barkin’
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B.B. King
Caldonia
Great American Music
Four Kings of Blues Guitar
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Bessie Smith
Backwater Blues
Fabulous
Greatest Hits
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Arthur Adams
Blue Roots
Delta Groove
Stomp The Blues
Amazon mp3 | iTunes | eMusic

Carey Bell
Lonesome Stranger
Alligator
35×35
Amazon mp3 | iTunes | eMusic

Sean Costello
Big Beaver
Landslide
Sean’s Blues
Amazon mp3 | iTunes | eMusic

JJ Grey
She Don’t Know
Alligator
Orange Blossoms
Amazon mp3 | iTunes

Coco Montoya
It’s All Your Fault
Alligator
Dirty Deal
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3 Comments »

espresso said:

Wow, I’d never heard of Bessie Smith before. Great stuff, I just downloaded a collection of her stuff. My grandmother will especially appreciate this.

Looking around, there was also a Bessie Mae Smith. Some sites imply they are the same Bessie Smith, but listening to songs attributed to Bessie Mae I don’t think this is correct. Do you know anything about this singer?

- 29 November 2009 at 8:40 pm

Tony Steidler-Dennison (author) said:

This, I think, is the answer to your question from answers.com:

St. Louis Bessie was the stage name for Bessie Mae Smith, a St. Louis blues singer of the 1930s who also recorded as Blue Belle, and later on as possibly Streamline Mae and Mae Belle Miller. On some of her songs, it is thought that the accompanying pianist is Roosevelt Sykes. It is also thought that she was in a relationship with bluesman Big Joe Williams. ~ Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide

I’d never heard of Bessie Mae before you asked. We both learned something.

- 29 November 2009 at 8:50 pm

espresso said:

Check this song out. Don’t know if it would fit the show, but it’s pretty good stuff.

http://www.archive.org/details/Dog

- 2 December 2009 at 10:34 am