Blues File: Tail Dragger

Blues File: Tail Dragger

Series: Blues File
From: WXPN
Length: 00:03:16

review of Tail Dragger's recent album "My Head Is Bald" Read the full description.

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Taildragger_small Tail Dragger is a Chicago bluesman who evokes the memory of Howlin' Wolf. His new live album is one of the best live blues alnums to come along in quite a while. Still looming over Tail Dragger's life and career is the killing of fellow bluesman Boston Blackie in 1993, for which he served a prison sentence that some people think was too short.

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Piece Description

Tail Dragger is a Chicago bluesman who evokes the memory of Howlin' Wolf. His new live album is one of the best live blues alnums to come along in quite a while. Still looming over Tail Dragger's life and career is the killing of fellow bluesman Boston Blackie in 1993, for which he served a prison sentence that some people think was too short.

Broadcast History

2-23-2006 WXPN-FM Philadelphia

Timing and Cues

3:16 self-contained. Opens with opening theme & host intro, ends with song fade

Musical Works

format:

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

Tail Dragger "My Woman Is Gone"
Delmark: My Head Is Bald
? 2005 Delmark Records
DE-782

Tail Dragger "So Ezee"
Delmark: My Head Is Bald
? 2005 Delmark Records
DE-782

Howlin' Wolf "Tail Draggger"
MCA: His Best, Volume 2
? 1999 MCA Records, Inc.
CHD-12026

Tail Dragger "Prison Blues"
Delmark: My Head Is Bald
? 2005 Delmark Records
DE-782

Tail Dragger "Crawlin' Kingsnake"
St. George: Crawlin' Kingsnake
? 1996 St. George Records
STG 7706

Tail Dragger "American People"
Delmark: American People
? 1999 Delmark Records
DE-728

Tail Dragger "Jump For Joy"
Delmark: My Head Is Bald
? 2005 Delmark Records
DE-782

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