Blues & Beyond #118: Music from artists who are concealing their identites: The Mississippi Marvel and Jandek. Plus a provocative new album from Gaye Adegbalola.
Series: Blues & Beyond
From: WXPN
Length: 00:59:00
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It seems almost counter-intuitive, and just plain senseless, for musicians trying to make it in the music biz to conceal their identities... but we have two of them on this show. The Mississippi Marvel doesn't want the people in his conservative church to know he is singing the blues. So, his name isn't disclosed. He appeared on stage recently in Clarksdale MS behind a screen. His music is rough-hewn country blues. Perhaps the idea for his name came from "The Masked Marvel" which was used as an alias by Charley Patton in 1929 for his second record. We have a new reissue of that record from Pristine Audio, the company that is getting better sound than ever before out of old 78 rpm records. Patton's label, Paramount Records, made a contest out of guessing his identity, but there's no such deal going with The Mississippi Marvel. Jandek has made a career out of being mysterious, recording off-center blues-like and folk-like music for thirty years-- refusing interviews and until recently never appearing in public. Now, he has played some un-announced gigs. We'll hear a track from a live Jandek album on this show. We also check out Gaye Adegbalola's album "Gaye Without Shame." She's a member of Saffire The Uppity Blueswomen (she wrote their best-known song "Middle Age Blues Boogie") who also has a solo career. This album examines the issues surrounding gay rights and the experience of being gay more than any blues album before it has. Plus: new music from the irrepressible Super Chikan, and a new song from Hal Ketchum, in this diverse hour of music!
Broadcast History
WXPN-FM 10-5-2008
Transcript
Victor Wooten "2 Timers"
Heads Up: Palmystery
(c)2008 VixLix Music
HUCD 3135
The Mississippi Marvel "Waterboy, Waterboy"
Broke & Hungry: The World Must Never Know
(c)2007 Broke & Hungry Records
BH13005
The Mississippi Marvel "Kanakee"
Broke & Hungry: The World Must Never Know
(c)2007 Broke & Hungry Records
BH13005
Charley Patton "Moon Going Down"
Pristine Audio: Dirt Road Blues
(c)2008 Pristine Audio
PABL006
Jandek "Slave To The River"
Corwood: Glasgow Friday
(c)2008 Corwood Industries
0791
Ellen McIlwaine & Cassius Khan "Crawlin' Kingsnake"
Ellen McIlwaine Music: Mystic Bridge
(c)2006 Ellen McIlwaine Music
EMM 001
zipper:
Jandek This Wasted Life
Saffire "Middle Aged Blues Boogie"
Alligator: The Uppity Blues Women
(c)1990 Alligator Records & Artist Mgmt., Inc.
ALCD 4780
Gaye Adegbalola "The Great Pretender"
Vi...
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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....."
27:48 end of part 1:
"... after the break, here on The Blues & Beyond."
59-second bed plays
28:47 bed fades
28:48 part 2: show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."
57:57 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..."
58:50 voice out "...on the next Blues & Beyond"
58:59 promo bed fades
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