Blues & Beyond #289: Songs and Stories For MLK Day: "Blues In The Mississippi Night"

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

Music and stories for MLK Day, including the secret session "Blues In The Mississippi Night" Read the full description.

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Promos

Playing: Blues & Beyond #289: Songs and Stories For MLK ...
From: WXPN

Msnight_small In this hour of The Blues & Beyond, songs and stories that connect with the spirit of the Martin Luther King Day holiday. We'll hear from Sam Cooke, The Neville Brothers, and Johnny Copeland, as well as his daughter Shemekia Copeland, and from B. B. King, and others, including Big Bill Broonzy. We'll hear some of Broonzy's remarkable 1947 talking and singing session with Memphis Slim and John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, recorded by Alan Lomax, but not issued until many years later, and even then with their names initially disguised - because it just wasn't safe for them otherwise. The session is known as "Blues In The Mississippi Night," and I'll talk with Bob Riesman who wrote the breakthrough biography of Big Bill Broonzy in 2011 about it as well.

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Piece Description

In this hour of The Blues & Beyond, songs and stories that connect with the spirit of the Martin Luther King Day holiday. We'll hear from Sam Cooke, The Neville Brothers, and Johnny Copeland, as well as his daughter Shemekia Copeland, and from B. B. King, and others, including Big Bill Broonzy. We'll hear some of Broonzy's remarkable 1947 talking and singing session with Memphis Slim and John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, recorded by Alan Lomax, but not issued until many years later, and even then with their names initially disguised - because it just wasn't safe for them otherwise. The session is known as "Blues In The Mississippi Night," and I'll talk with Bob Riesman who wrote the breakthrough biography of Big Bill Broonzy in 2011 about it as well.

promo included: promo289

Broadcast History

WXPN-FM Philadelphia 1-16-2012

Transcript

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

Start: 1:12 Duration: 4:47
Arnold McCuller "The Whale Have Swallowed Me"
What's Good: Soon As I Get Paid
© 2011 What's Good Records

Start: 7:41 Duration: 3:08
Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come"
RCA: The Man And His Music
© 1990 RCA Victor Records

Start: 10:49 Duration: 3:30
Neville Brothers "Sister Rosa"
A&M: Yellow Moon
© 1990 A&M Records

Start: 14:22 Duration: 3:17
Johnny Copeland "Ghetto Child"
Castle Music: Ghetto Child
© 2003 Castle Music

Start: 18:33 Duration: 2:07
B. B. King "I'm Gonna Sit In ('Til You Give In)"
MCA: King Of The Blues
© 1992 MCA Records, Inc.

Start: 20:40 Duration: 8:13
B. B. King "Why I Sing The Blues"
MCA: King Of The Blues
© 1992 MCA Records, Inc.

St...
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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: "J. B. Lenoir wrote a number of great songs about civil rights ..."

05:59 "option" song fades

06:00 show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister....."

34:17 end of part 1:

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

59-second bed plays

35:16 bed fades

35:17 part 2: show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

58:27 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
The Whale Have Swallowed Me	Arnold McCuller	Soon As I Get Paid.	What's Good	2011	04:47
A Change Is Gonna Come	Sam Cooke	The Man And His Music.	RCA	1990	03:08
Sister Rosa	Neville Brothers	Yellow Moon.	A&M	1990	03:30
Ghetto Child	Johnny Copeland	Ghetto Child.	Castle Music	2003	03:17
I'm Gonna Sit In ('Til You Give In)	B. B. King	King Of The Blues.	MCA	1992	02:07
Why I Sing The Blues	B. B. King	King Of The Blues.	MCA	1992	08:13
Down In Mississippi	Eagle-Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, and James Blood Ulmer	The Soul Of A Man.	Columbia/Legacy	2003	04:27
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground	Marc Ribot	The Soul Of A Man.	Columbia/Legacy	2003	00:59
Black, Brown, and White Blues	Big Bill Broonzy	Blues In The Mississippi Night.	Rounder	2003	02:19
Conversation Continues	Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim, John Lee Williamson	Blues In The Mississippi Night.	Rounder	2003	03:56
Levee Camp and Prison Songs, Conversation Continues	Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim, John Lee Williamson	Blues In The Mississippi Night.	Rounder	2003	05:10
God's Word	Shemekia Copeland	The Soul Of A Man.	Columbia/Legacy	2003	04:18
Forty-Eight	John Renbourn	Sir John A Lot.	Shanachie	1992	00:58

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