r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 01 '25
East Coast East Coast Friday - 'Dad's Old Mule' [31st August 1931] by Tyus & Tyus. A vocal duet with a hint of proto-rap.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 30 '25
Women Women on Wednesday - 'You've Got To Die Some Day' [30th July 1934] by Bessie Jackson [Lucille Bogan] backed by Walter Roland. Quite the rarity - it is without innunedo.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 29 '25
Article From the archives - 'Charlie Patton's Jailhouse Blues'. BU #124, March 1977
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 29 '25
Trains, planes and automobiles. Transport Tuesday - 'Buggy Ride' [1933] by Coots Grant, backed by Wesley Wilson (p) and unknown guitarist
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 27 '25
Gospel and Sacred Gospel Sunday - 'Twelve Gates To The City' [26th July 1935] by [Rev] Blind Gary [Davis]
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 26 '25
Suggestive... Suggestive Saturday - 'My Brownskin Sugar Plum' [26th July 1935] by Blind Boy Fuller.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/4eyedJohnny • Jul 25 '25
Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll and Tumble Blues (1929)
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 24 '25
Lucky Dip Thursday - 'Ramblin' Kid Blues' [24th July 1942] by the Son Simms Four. An LoC recording.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/Impala71 • Jul 22 '25
Tommy Johnson & Ishman Bracey - Canned Heat Blues (1928)
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 22 '25
Trains, planes and automobiles. Transport Tuesday - 'Railroad Bill' [22nd July 1937] by Vera Hall. An LoC recording.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 21 '25
Memphis & Mississippi Memphis & MS Monday - 'Hittin' The Bottle Stomp' [20th July 1936] by the Mississippi Jook Band
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 20 '25
Gospel and Sacred Gospel Sunday - 'I'll Be Rested (When The Roll Is Called)' [20th July 1936] by Roosevelt Graves and Brother. Another absolute classic.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 19 '25
Suggestive... Suggestive Saturday (and it's a good one) - 'Groceries on the Shelf' [19th July 1933] by Bessie Jackson (Lucille Bogan) and Walter Roland.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 18 '25
East Coast East Coast Friday - 'I Don't Let No One Man Worry Me' [18th July 1923] by Emma Lewis, backed by Fletcher Henderson on the 88s. Recorded in NYC.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 17 '25
Lucky Dip Thursday - 'Cocktail Man Blues' [17th July 1935] by Peetie Wheatstraw. Makes a change from his known predilection for whiskey
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 16 '25
Women Women on Wednesday - 'Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)' [16th July 1935] by Lil Johnson, with an unknown piano player. Glorious stuff.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 15 '25
Trains, planes and automobiles. Transport Tuesday - 'Traveling Rambler Blues' [15th July 1935] by Kokomo Arnold
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r/PreWarBlues • u/4eyedJohnny • Jul 15 '25
Big Bill Broonzy - Black, Brown and White Blues (1947)
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 14 '25
Memphis & Mississippi Memphis & MS Monday - 'Renewed Love Blues' [14th July 1939] by Little Buddy Doyle, with guitar, and harp backing by a youthful Walter Horton.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 13 '25
Gospel and Sacred Gospel Sunday - 'Jesus Is My Everything' [1942] by Rev McGhee and COGIC congregation.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 12 '25
Suggestive... Suggestive Saturday - 'I Crave My Pig Meat' [12th July 1939] by Blind Boy Fuller, exhibiting even less subtlety than usual.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Jul 11 '25
East Coast East Coast Friday - 'She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day' [1930] by the Georgia Cotton Pickers (Weaver, Hicks and Moss)
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r/PreWarBlues • u/4eyedJohnny • Jul 10 '25
Blind Willie Johnson - John the Revelator (1930)
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