Nothing But The Blues
Nothing But The Blues #29
Joanna Connor (Living On The Road); Jimmy Reed (Shame, Shame, Shame); Omar Kent Dykes (Close Together); Little Walter (Worried Life Blues); Shakey Jake (Good Times); Joe Bonamassa (The Ballad Of John Henry); Son House (Sun Goin' Down); J.D. Short (Train Bring My Baby Back); The Blues Byrds (Overseas); Louisiana Red (I'm Louisiana Red); Muddy Waters (Rollin' Stone); Leroy Carr (Rocks In My Bed); Blind Willie McTell (Southern Can Is Mine); Mason Casey (Chesterfield County Jail); Kirk Fletcher (Bad Boy).
[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] I was standing on the highway in the windstorm. [MUSIC] Taking out all the miles I travel, everywhere I've been. [MUSIC] You know that midnight was shining, I could feel my soul, yeah. [MUSIC] I was thinking about my little boy, yeah, yeah, yeah. [MUSIC] Sometime I want to give it up, see what I might know. Making tons more people out of the sky, living on the road. [MUSIC] Like in the start, I'm on Michigan. Driving the rivers on a rolling desert, it's awesome. [MUSIC] And living on the road. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Sometime I want to give it up, see what I might know. Making tons more people out, living on the road. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] You're here, welcome to Nothing but the Blues with me, Cliff. And that was Joanna Connor, logging us into a false sense of security with the opening of Mississippi Blues before launching into what is probably an autobiographical piece from her 1992 album, Fight, Living on the Road. I really liked Joanna Connor's stuff, and I'll play it off the Boogie King, because I know he plays Joanna Connor as well. Well, let's have some classic Jimmy Reed now, this is Shame, Shame, Shame. [MUSIC] Well, I thought that you'd be running no fast. No, you got me, baby. I forget the fans that ain't that. Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame. Shame, Shame where you should. [MUSIC] Well, it's the same, same, same. Shame, Shame on you. [MUSIC] Well, I ain't gonna walk out in the evening. Now, I ain't gonna tell you no. Sit your luck in the morning. You come walking home and I ain't got a shame, shame, shame. Shame, Shame the way you should. [MUSIC] Well, it's the same, shame, shame, shame. Well, it's the shame on you. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Well, I'd be sitting there waiting for you to come home. When I wake up, baby. Sitting there all alone and I ain't got a shame, shame, shame. Shame, Shame the way you should. [MUSIC] Well, it's the same, shame, shame. Shame, Shame on you. [MUSIC] Jimmy Reed and Shame, Shame, Shame. And it kind of links to the next one. Omar Kent Dyke's last album was on the Jimmy Reed Highway and he's got a new album out on Roof called Big Town Playboy. Again featuring Jimmy Vaughn and a host of other people too. This next track is from that album. It's another Jimmy Reed song and features Luann Barton on vocals and James Cotton on Harmonica. This is Close Together. [MUSIC] We gotta stay close together. We gotta stay close together. If we don't want somebody to get ahead of us. [MUSIC] You know that this old world is full of totally sin. One little person now just can't win. It takes the two of us down side by side to try to keep each other from being taken far right. We gotta stay close together. We gotta stay close together. If we don't want somebody to get ahead of us. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] We gotta stay close together. Close together. We gotta stay close together. Close together. If we don't want somebody to get ahead of us. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] That was somebody called Shakey Jake with a track called Good Times. It's the title track from his debut album in 1960 with Jack Macduff on organ and Bill Jennings on guitar. No bass or drums. It's been criticized for having a slightly unusual line up. I actually quite like the record. I think it works very well. And before that, classic Little Walter. Well, not so classic because most people expect him to be loud and raucous and fast. And I chose that one particularly, Burry Life Blues, recorded in February 1959, but I played it from volume three in the Chess Legendary Masters series, released in 1997. Great collection. Well, I mentioned last week, the week before. Can't remember that Joe Bonhamasa has a new album out. This is the title track, The Ballad of John Henry. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Well, the sort of high powered stuff we've come to expect from Joe Bonner Maslow, the ballad of John Henry, title track from his new album which came out earlier this year. OK, well, let's change the mood a bit now. I haven't played any sunhouse for ages. This is sunhouse and sun going down. 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