Blues File: The Blues Transformed

Blues File: The Blues Transformed

Series: Blues File
From: WXPN
Length: 00:03:04

a look at challenging efforts to produce the blues form in new ways Read the full description.

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Tangleeye_small The popular blues is a transformation of the work songs of African-Americans that began as far back as the nineteenth century. Now, we have a popular music called "blues" with a familiar sound to it, but artists and producers are experimenting with it using new and not-so-new methods to transform it. This is a look at modern blues transformations, including remixes of Library of Congress field recordings, sampling of pre-war blues records, avanat garde arrangement of blues songs, and the work of one producer associated with one of the most important blues labels trying something different with the label's two best-known artists.

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Piece Description

The popular blues is a transformation of the work songs of African-Americans that began as far back as the nineteenth century. Now, we have a popular music called "blues" with a familiar sound to it, but artists and producers are experimenting with it using new and not-so-new methods to transform it. This is a look at modern blues transformations, including remixes of Library of Congress field recordings, sampling of pre-war blues records, avanat garde arrangement of blues songs, and the work of one producer associated with one of the most important blues labels trying something different with the label's two best-known artists.

Broadcast History

12-92005 WXPN FM Philadelphia

Timing and Cues

3:03 self contained. Opens with them & host intro, ends with song fade.

Musical Works

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Artist name "Song Title"
Label Name: Album Name
copyright info
Catalog number

Muddy Waters "Hoochie Coochie Man"
MCA: The Anthology
? 2001 MCA Records, Inc.
088 112 649-2

B. B. King "Sweet Sixteen, Part One"
Flair: The Best Of B. B. King, Vol. 1
? 1986 Ace Records, Ltd./Virgin Records America, Inc.
2-91691

Ed Lewis "John Henry"
Rounder: Southern Soul Jouney, Vol. 5: Bad Man Ballads
? 1997 Rounder Records Corp.
CD 1705

Tangle Eye "John Henry's Blues"
Zo?: Alan Lomax's Southern Journey Remixed
? 2004 Zo? Records, a Rounder Records Group Company
01143-1024-2

Gare du Nord "Pablo's Blues"
Putumayo: Blues Lounge
? 2004 Putumayo World Music
PUT 229-2

Pyeng Threagill "Come On In My Kitchen"
Random Chance: Sweet Home: The Music Of Robert Johnson
? 2004 Random Chance Records
RCD 16

Howlin' Wolf "Smokestack Lightning"
Cadet: This Is Howlin' Wold's New Album....
? 1969 Chess Records
LPS-319

Muddy Waters "She'a Alright"
Cadet: Electric Mud
? 1996 MCA Records, Inc.
CHD-9364

Chris Thomas King "Revelations"
21st Centrury Blues: Dirty South Hip-Hop Blues
? 2002 21st Century Blues Records, LLC
21CD-CD-2106

Jubilant Sykes "Love In Vain"
Sony Classical: Wait For Me
? 2001 Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
SK 89107