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Blues & Beyond #187: Eric Bibb celebrates Bukka White and DeFord Bailey; Putumayo presents Rhythm & Blues

Series: Blues & Beyond
From: WXPN
Length: 00:59:00

Eric Bibb is inspired by Bukka White's guitar -- music from Bibb, White, a cool new Putumayo R&B sampler, and jazz bassoon from Daniel Smith. Read the full description.
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In this hour of The Blues & Beyond, we'll hear songs from Eric Bibb from his new album "Booker's Guitar" and allow those songs to take us to others as well. Folk bluesman Eric Bibb is one of the foremost interpreters of traditional blues, and an artist who writes songs about the tradition and its meaning. "Booker's Guitar" came from the flood of emotion he felt after coming into possession of a guitar once owned by bluesman Booker T. Washington White, known as Bukka White (pronounced "Bookah"). We'll hear from Bukka White as well, on both guitar and piano. White was B. B. King's cousin, and he helped his younger cousin get started when King first came to Memphis. Eric Bibb read about it in B. B. King's autobiography; it turns out that Bibb is an avid reader, and his song about reading "Turning Pages" is included in this show too. Another song from Eric Bibb will lead us to a fabulous harmonica player, DeFord Bailey, who was the first black performer for The Grand Old Opry. We'll hear Bailey from 1928. We'll also explore a few songs from the latest in the colorful series of music samplers from Putumayo; this one is called "Putumayo Presents Rhythm & Blues." Sam Moore, Keb' Mo', Lavelle White, and others are on this album. And, we have a piece from Daniel Smith who plays jazz on the bassoon from his new album "Blue Bassoon."

Broadcast History

WXPN-FM Philadelphia 1-31-2010 and 2-1-2010

Transcript

Start: 0:00 Duration: 0:59
opening theme:
Start: 00:00 Duration: 0:59
Bert Jansch and John Renbourn "No Exit"
Wooded Hill Recordings: Bert And John
© 1996 Wooded Hill Records/Transatlantic Records Ltd
HILLCD8

Start: 01:11 Duration: 4:48
Jack McDuff "Blues And Tonic"
Prestige: The Honeydripper
© 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
PRCD-30035-2

Start: 07:04 Duration: 2:47
Eric Bibb "Booker's Guitar"
Telarc: Booker's Guitar
© 2010 Flatbrim Recordings, under license to Telarc International, division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
TEL-31756-02

Start: 09:52 Duration: 6:57
Bukka White "Alabama Blues"
Arhoolie: Sky Songs
© 1990 Arhoolie Records
CD-323

Start: 16:49 Duration: 5:25
Bukka White "Single Man Blues"
Arhoolie: Sky Songs
© 1990 Arhoolie Records
CD-323

Start: 22:50 Duration: 2:45
Eric Bibb "Turning Pages"
Telarc: Boo...
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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....."

37:06 end of part 1:

"... after the break, here on The Blues & Beyond."

59-second bed plays

38:05 bed fades

38:06 part 2: show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

58:33 voice out on part 2 "... thanks for listening to this hour of The Blues & Beyond."

58:59 theme fades end of part 2

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
No Exit Bert Jansch and John Renbourn Bert And John. Wooded Hill Recordings 1996 00:59
Blues And Tonic Jack McDuff The Honeydripper. Prestige 2006 04:48
Booker's Guitar Eric Bibb Booker's Guitar. Telarc 2010 02:47
Alabama Blues Bukka White Sky Song. Arhoolie 1990 06:57
Single Man Blues Bukka White Sky Songs. Arhoolie 1990 05:25
Turning Pages Eric Bibb Booker's Guitar. Telarc 2010 02:45
You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover Bo Diddley The Best Of Bo Diddley: The Millennium Collection. MCA 2000 03:12
Everyday's Been Sunday Eric Bibb Booker's Guitar. Telarc 2010 03:55
Davidson County Blues DeFord Bailey When The Sun Goes Down, Vol. 1: Walk Right In. RCA/Bluebird 2002 03:19
Pan American DeFord Bailey Country Music's First Black Star. Tennessee Folklore Society 1998 00:59
Wang Dang Doodle Sam Moore, Keb' Mo', & Angie Stone Putumayo Presents Rhythm & Blues. Putumayo 2010 04:05
Wang Dang Doodle Koko Taylor What It Takes/The Chess Years. MCA/Chess 1991 02:59
I've Never Found A Man To Love Lavelle White Putumayo Presents Rhythm & Blues. Putumayo 2010 03:42
Who Knows Quantic Soul Orchestra with Kabir Putumayo Presents Rhythm & Blues. Putumayo 2010 03:35
Nostalgia In Times Square Daniel Smith Blue Bassoon. Summit Records 2009 03:59
Forty-Eight John Renbourn Sir John A Lot. Shanachie 1992 00:53

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