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Nothing But The Blues

Nothing But The Blues #37

Duration:
1h 0m
Broadcast on:
30 May 2009
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Johnny Winter (Forty-Four); Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers (You Better Watch Yourself); The Delta Flyers (On The Levee Road); Big Joe Williams (Levee Camp Blues); Sonny Boy Williamson II (One Way Out); Omar Kent Dykes (Man Down There); Candye Kane (Superhero); King Solomon Hill (Tell Me Baby); Bo Weavil Jackson (You Can't Keep No Brown); Johnny Dickinson (Ocean Blues); Bessie Smith (Lock And Key); Hayes McMullan (Looka Here Woman); Otis Taylor (Little Betty); Willie Baker (Mama, Don't Rush Me Blues); Watermelon Slim and The Workers (You're The One I Need); Son Seals (Going Home (Where Women Got Meat On Their Bones)).
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That was Johnny Winter with 44. From his 1969 album, The Progressive Blues Experiment. I've got it on vinyl, but it's one of the many I've replaced on CD. I wonder what format I'll have to replace it with next. Probably a hologram or something like that. Actually I don't think I'll bother. I think I'll stick with CDs now. Well, Rod Piazza's got a new CD coming out called Soul Monster. And this is a track from that. This is You Better Watch Yourself. (upbeat guitar music) You got to watch yourself. (upbeat guitar music) You got to watch yourself. (upbeat guitar music) You got to watch yourself. I've got my eyes on you. (upbeat guitar music) You can steal my love. I am going away. Don't tell me you see me another day. You got to watch yourself. (upbeat guitar music) You got to watch yourself. (upbeat guitar music) You got to watch yourself. I've got my eyes on you. (upbeat guitar music) Well, you're gonna love me. You left me out of cry. You know I love you. You know you might as well. 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(upbeat guitar music) ♪ Got to get old at a clayberg county ♪ ♪ For it's time to ring ♪ ♪ I'll be traveling on the living ♪ ♪ Came my chances in it fall ♪ ♪ Ready to go highway main ♪ ♪ Let me down where they've been so far ♪ ♪ On a living road ♪ ♪ There's an outlaw high in all the living road ♪ ♪ Bad things in mind on a living road ♪ ♪ You can meet your maker ♪ ♪ Take your leave long before it's time ♪ ♪ But plenty of bad men out there ♪ ♪ Buss you up and I knock you down ♪ ♪ Left o'er the turning boy ♪ ♪ Line half dead on the ground ♪ ♪ All he had was a dollar ♪ ♪ And over what did change ♪ ♪ Don't seem as a boy any good man ♪ ♪ To beat that doll in pain ♪ ♪ On a living road ♪ ♪ Don't do no shuffling on a living road ♪ ♪ Better move along on a living road ♪ ♪ Don't greet no stranger ♪ ♪ The God now won't come no wrong ♪ ♪♪ ♪ On a living road ♪ ♪ Don't do no shuffling on a living road ♪ ♪ Better move along on a living road ♪ ♪ Don't greet no stranger ♪ ♪ The God now won't come no wrong ♪ ♪ On a living road ♪ ♪ There's an outlaw hiding on a living road ♪ ♪ Bad things in mind on a living road ♪ ♪ You can meet your maker ♪ ♪ Take your leave long before it's time ♪ ♪♪ Good morning, Captain. ♪ Well, well, mom, you won't go long ♪ ♪ Good morning, Captain ♪ ♪ Mom, leave me, you won't go long ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Yeah, she won't like water ♪ ♪ Oh, you know my leave me won't be calm ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, my back band pop in ♪ ♪ Yeah, you know my hard color crime ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, you know my back band probably didn't do ♪ ♪ And you know it'll be your move ♪ ♪ We can color crime ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Well, you don't need a dolphin thing ♪ ♪ Whoa, man, put a load of time ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Yeah, I've been waiting on the living ♪ ♪ Whoa, I've been waiting on the living ♪ ♪ Yeah, I've been waiting on the living ♪ ♪ Yeah, I've been waiting on the living ♪ ♪ I've been waiting for a night and day ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Ever sad and I go talk to them and sit back and try to lower them ♪ ♪ Tell them to think you're waiting and he 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Williamson the second with one way out. Recorded in Chicago in 1961 with an absolute dream team. Otis Spannon Piano, Robert Lockwood Jr. and Luther Tucker on guitars. Willie Dixon on bass and Fred Bilo on drums. Fantastic stuff. And then you heard Omar Kent Dykes with Man Down There from his new album Big Town Playboy. And it's actually a reply to the Sonny Boye track. He is that Man Down There. I thought that was quite a clever track. Right, something a bit different now. Delighted to be playing this next track. Candy Kane was quite ill last year, but she's made a remarkable recovery. And she's got a new album coming out in a couple of weeks. This is the title track Superhero. ♪ I've always been a fighter ♪ ♪ When bad times come around ♪ ♪ I'm not gonna take it ♪ ♪ I ain't down ♪ ♪ I won't let it get me down ♪ ♪ I'm gonna get back up and stand my ground ♪ ♪ I'm gonna show who it's for ♪ ♪ To everyone who is watching ♪ ♪ I ain't evil all around ♪ ♪ I'm gonna run those bad guys out of town ♪ ♪ It's ready to look ♪ ♪ Kane was taking over ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ I keep on fighting ♪ ♪ There's no way I'm laying down and dying ♪ ♪ I'm a wonder woman ♪ ♪ I'm here to stay ♪ ♪ If you can't help me get out of my way ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Getting all the tough jobs done ♪ ♪ I won't ever need a gun ♪ ♪ My big heart is my secret weapon ♪ ♪ You can always count on me ♪ ♪ Save your kitchen from the tree ♪ ♪ Do it all ♪ ♪ Still have time for dinner ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ I keep on flying ♪ ♪ There's no way I'm leaving without trying ♪ ♪ I'm a wonder woman ♪ ♪ I'm here to stay ♪ ♪ If you can't help me get out of my way ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Give me when you're crying ♪ ♪ I'll come right away ♪ ♪ I'll be there in time to save the day ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ I keep on fighting ♪ ♪ There's no way I'm laying down and dying ♪ ♪ I'm a wonder woman ♪ ♪ I'm here to stay ♪ ♪ If you can't help me get out of my way ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ I keep on fighting ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ There's no way I'm laying down and dying ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ I'm a superhero ♪ ♪ I have to say the title track of her new album that will be released in a couple of weeks ♪ ♪ And she's made a remarkable recovery from pancreatic cancer ♪ ♪ It's one that kills an awful lot of people and I'm glad to see she's recovered ♪ ♪ In fact the photograph inside the album she looks fantastic so ♪ ♪ Good, great stuff ♪ ♪ Well how do you follow the superhero ♪ ♪ Something completely different I think ♪ Somebody called Hayes McMullen would look a here woman recorded in Jackson, Mississippi by Gail Dean Wardlow in 1968 but that's apparently how he played in the 1920s and if you want that track you'll have to buy Wardlow's book Chasing That Deviled Music because it's on the CD that comes with the book and before that the fabulous Bessie Smith with lock and key recorded in New York in April 1927 with James P Johnson on piano doing some fantastic stuff so that one was for you Grinne. Well I've been playing stuff from Otis Taylor's latest album Recapturing the Panjo but I thought I'd revisit one of his earlier albums this is a little better from definition of a circle. [Music] Hey little better won't you beg your key. You never know when China's coming home. Hey little better won't you beg your key. Hey little better won't you beg me a key. You never know when China's coming home. You never know when China's coming home. You never know when China's coming home. You never know when China's coming home. You never know when China's coming home. You never know when China's coming home. You never know when China's coming home. You never know when China's coming home. You never know when China's coming home. I'm going to go back in time for one last time this week, back to 1929. This is a guy called Willie Baker and mama don't rush me blues. Yeah mama what's the matter I know you want data to treat me like that. Hey little better won't you beg your key. 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Catch you next week. ♪♪ ♪ Been working to feel most of my life ♪ ♪ The one day I decided to be ♪ ♪ I went to New York City ♪ ♪ The things I saw ♪ ♪ The folks back home they wouldn't be ♪ ♪ I saw them long-legged women ♪ ♪ But like skin and bones ♪ ♪ The dress is so short ♪ ♪ You can tell they have one on my own own ♪ ♪ But women got to meet on their bones ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'm going home ♪ ♪ But women got to meet on their bones ♪ ♪♪ ♪ 'Cause ain't a woman in the town ♪ ♪ Big enough to beat me one ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'm staying on corners of the cars ♪ ♪ So long they look like liverses ♪ ♪ I heard what's safe ♪ ♪ We had to check the traps ♪ ♪ By that time my pocket was clean ♪ ♪ I couldn't get myself together ♪ ♪ No matter how I tried ♪ ♪ The one day I went to New York City ♪ ♪ Made for the fry ♪ ♪ I'm going home ♪ ♪♪ ♪ But women got some beat on their bones ♪ ♪♪ I'm going home, but women got me on their own. I've been a woman in the town, big enough to keep me warm. I'm all right. 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