Blues & Beyond #67: Sleepy John Estes / Grace Griffith
Series: Blues & Beyond
From: WXPN
Length: 00:59:00
The 1968 album "Electric Sleep" by Sleepy John Estes has been reissued as "Sleepy John Estes On The Chicago Blues Scene." This project put together an idiosyncratic country bluesman and a group of Chicago blues stalwarts. The somewhat unpredictable Estes and the Chicago regulars, including Jimmy Dawkins, Sunnyland Slim, Carey Bell, and Earl Hooker among others, kind of "meet in the middle" on an album that we are very happy to have reissued. Also in this hour, new music from New Orleans bass player and band leader George Porter, Jr., a new live album fom Eric Bibb, and the music-- and life-- of Grace Griffith. Folksinger Griffith continues her career although she has Parkinson's Disease, and she also works to improve our undertanding of the condition.
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Piece Description
The 1968 album "Electric Sleep" by Sleepy John Estes has been reissued as "Sleepy John Estes On The Chicago Blues Scene." This project put together an idiosyncratic country bluesman and a group of Chicago blues stalwarts. The somewhat unpredictable Estes and the Chicago regulars, including Jimmy Dawkins, Sunnyland Slim, Carey Bell, and Earl Hooker among others, kind of "meet in the middle" on an album that we are very happy to have reissued. Also in this hour, new music from New Orleans bass player and band leader George Porter, Jr., a new live album fom Eric Bibb, and the music-- and life-- of Grace Griffith. Folksinger Griffith continues her career although she has Parkinson's Disease, and she also works to improve our undertanding of the condition.
Broadcast History
WXPN-FM Philadelphia 10-14-2007
Transcript
Al "Coffee" McDaniel "Blues In My Shoes"
CPA: Blues In My Shoes
Sleepy John Estes "Someday Baby Blues"
Yazoo: I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More
Sleepy John Estes "Need More Blues"
Delmark: On The Chicago Blues Scene
Sleepy John Estes "Laura Had A Dream"
Delmark: On The Chicago Blues Scene
Sleepy John Estes "Easin' Back To Tennessee"
Delmark: On The Chicago Blues Scene
George Porter, Jr. "The Blues I Love"
Transvideo: It's Life
Turtle Island String Quartet "Pursuance"
Telarc: A Love Supreme: The Legend Of John Coltrane
Eric Bibb "Don't Ever Let Your Spirit Down"
M. C.: An Evening With Eric Bibb
Bert Jansch "Black Waterside"
Secret: Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning
Grace Griffith "If I Can't Dance"
Blix Street: My Life
Eva Cassidy "Take Me To The River"
Blix Street: Live At Blues Alley
Connemara "Silent Star"...
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Timing and Cues
00:00 Billboard: Show opens, opening theme, "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."
00:59 Billboard ends.. "... in this hour of The Blues & Beyond."
01:00 "option" song: "Starting out, this is..."
05:59 "option" song fades
06:00 show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister....."
32:22 end of part 1:
"... after the break, here on The Blues & Beyond."
59-second bed plays
33:21 bed fades
33:22 part 2: show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."
58:14 voice out on part 2 "... thanks for listening to this hour of The Blues & Beyond."
58:29 theme fades end of part 2
58:30 Promo starts: bed begins: ..."On the next Blues & Beyond..."
58:51 voice out "...on the next Blues & Beyond"
58:59 promo bed fades
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