Anniversary in the Piedmont

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - OUR 50th SHOW!!!

It's true. We've officially met fifty times at the Crossroads. A bit sad when you consider that there are only two left, but like we've been telling all of you, you couldn't be in better hands. That said, this week we stopped very briefly (like four songs briefly) in Memphis for a little soul blues action and proceeded to travel all up and down the east coast to hear that sweet, sweet twelve-string Piedmont sound. Here's the set:

Intro (lead-in by Tony Price)
B.B. King - 3 O'Clock Blues
Junior Wells - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Muddy Waters - The Same Things [to Uncle Paulie, from Possum]
Memphis Minnie - Lean Meat Don't Fry, Part 1
Memphis Willie B. - Mailman Blues
Guitar Nubbit - Georgia Chain Gang Blues

First Break

Blind Willie McTell - Your Southern Can Is Mine
Slim Barton - Wicked Treatin' Blues
Hambone Willie Newburn - Hambone Willie's Dreamy Eyed Woman's Blues
Cootie Stark - Metal Bottoms
Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley - Every Day in the Week Blues
Scrapper Blackwell - Down and Out Blues
Pernell Charity - God Bless the Child
Bull City Red - Everybody Wants To Know How I Die

Second Break

The Allman Brothers Band - Stormy Monday [for Elrod]
Virgil Childers - Red River Blues
Jaybird Coleman - Mistreatin' Mama
Monkey Joe Coleman - Gonna Beat It Back To Memphis, Tennessee
Turner Foddrell - Slow Drag
Yank Rachell - Cigarette Blues
Carolina Slim - Ain't It Sad

Third Break

Lonzie Thomas - My Three Women
Blind Boy Fuller - If You Don't Give Me What I Want
Willie Trice - My Baby's Ways
Reverend Pearly Brown - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
Blind Blake - Sun To Sun
Billy Bird - Down In the Cemetary
Tarheel Slim - Some Cold Rainy Day
Big Chief Ellis, Brownie McGhee and John Cephas - Prison Bound

Next week we do some serious moving around ... ideally, we'd like to cover Texas, the west coast, Britain, and even Africa. Do we have your attention? You won't want to miss next week. Stay positive.

Shoeless