Everyone Gets the Blues

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - The One With a Mini-Ode to T-Bone

So here's the scene: Johnny and I are sitting around at the studio, set long-since prepared, unwinding after a long day of backbreaking labor (read: class), and enjoying the company of Mrs. Scarlett O'Sara of Cowtipper's Delight. The phone in the studio rings, and whose voice do I hear on the other end of the line? None other than my brother T-Bone Roane (also of Tha Bomb fame), who rang the station in order to inform me that he "got the blues." My delight soon sank into dismay as I realized it wasn't the good kind - heartbreak of some kind had befallen him. T-Bone being family, I thought it necessary to try to lift his spirits by dedicating the entire first set to him, so, with the exception of this week's Cliff's Pick "Heartbreaker" (as ironically fitting as that may have been), everything up to the first break is dedicated to the legendary - the one and only - T-Bone. Here's the set:

Intro
Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel / Elvis' Golden Records
Pinetop Perkins - I'd Rather Quit Her Than Hit Her / Sweet Black Angel
Howlin' Wolf - Forty-Four / Moanin' In the Moonlight
Bo Diddley - I'm Bad / Bo Diddley (1957)
Tom Waits - The One That Got Away (Live in Bremen, Germany, April 26, 1977) / Invitation To the Blues
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker (Live) / BBC Sessions [Cliff's Pick]

First Break

Honeyboy Edwards - Next Time You See Me / Mississippi Delta Bluesman
Sleepy John Estes - Poor John Blues / I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More
ZZ Top - Down Brownie / Rio Grande Mud
Muddy Waters - I Got a Rich Man's Woman / Audio Archives (Collector's Edition)
Cream - Crossroads (Live at the Fillmore) / Wheels of Fire [for Elron]
John Lee Hooker - This Is Nineteen and Fifty-Two, Baby / King of the Boogie
Earl Hooker and Junior Wells - You Sure Look Good To Me / Earl Hooker and Junior Wells

Second Break

Jeff Beck Group - I Ain't Superstitious / Truth
Albert King - You Sure Drive a Hard Bargain / King of the Blues Guitar
T-Bone Walker - The Sun Went Down / The Complete Imperial Recordings 1950-1954
Geeshie Wiley - Skinny Legs Blues / Paramount Records #12951 (March 1930)
AC/DC - Show Business / '74 Jailbreak
Hound Dog Taylor - Wild About You, Baby (Live) / Release the Hound
Hound Dog Taylor - The Dog Meets the Wolf (Live) / Release the Hound
Third Break

Koko Taylor - I'm a Little Mixed Up / What It Takes: The Chess Years [for Uncle Milo]
Robert Johnson - Little Queen of Spades / Red Hot Blues
Papa Charlie Jackson - You Put It In, I'll Take It Out / Vocalion 03048-A (Recorded November 26, 1934)
Homesick James and Snooky Pryor - It's All Over Now / Sad and Lonesome
Five Horse Johnson - Odella / The No. 6 Dance

Also, just as we were ready to head home, our computer system went on the fritz. As we scrambled to assemble regular rotation tracks, I left some jams on to play at will. If you stayed with us for that little something extra, here's that set:

Encore:
The White Stripes - Little Room / White Blood Cells
Charley Patton - Moon Going Down / Pony Blues
Chick Willis - Stoop Down Baby
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Goin' Down to the River / Mississippi Blues
Albert King and Freddie King - The Sky Is Crying (Live) / Blue on Blues
Taj Mahal - Keep Your Hands Off Her / Giant Step
Tom Waits - Fumblin' With the Blues (Live) / Invitation to the Blues
Eagles of Death Metal - Poor Doggie / Death By Sexy
Dr. Ross - Mean Old World / The Flying Eagle
Lowell Fulson - Let Me Ride In Your Automobile / I'm a Night Owl, Vol. 2
Bullmoose Jackson - I Want a Bowlegged Woman / Greatest Hits: I Want a Bowlegged Woman

See you guys next week! Until then, stay positive.

Shoeless