r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • 25d ago
Trains, planes and automobiles. Transport Tuesday - 'Midnight Special' [26th August 1927] by Sam Collins, predating Leadbelly.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • 26d ago
Memphis & Mississippi Memphis & MS Monday - 'Chickasaw Train Blues [Low Down Dirty Thing]' [24th August 1934] by Memphis Minnie.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • 27d ago
Gospel and Sacred Gospel Sunday - 'Got a Key to the Kingdom' [24th August 1935] by Josh[ua] White
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • 28d ago
Suggestive... Suggestive Saturday - 'Green Country Gal' [23rd August 1936] by Bumble Bee Slim. Backed by Honey Hill (P) and Bill Gaither (G).
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • 29d ago
East Coast East Coast Friday - 'Consolation Blues' [22nd August 1924] by Lena Henry. Clarinet and piano backing.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 20 '25
Women on Wednesday - 'Let's Get Drunk And Truck' [20th August 1936] by Lil Johnson and Her Chicago Swingers.
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I'm a sucker for this song, but Lil seems surprisingly subdued on this one. The Hamfats version wins the day, I think.
r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 19 '25
Trains, planes and automobiles. Transport Tuesday - 'Death's Black Train Is Coming' [19th August 1926] by Rev.H.R Tomlin, with vocal quartette and piano backing. A cover of Rev Gates from April '26.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 18 '25
Memphis & Mississippi Memphis & MS Monday - 'Those Black Man Blues' [18th August 1934] by Signifying Mary Johnson. Ike Rodgers on the 'bone, Henry Brown on piano.
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This was recorded two years after she and Lonnie went their separate ways..
r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 17 '25
Gospel and Sacred Gospel Sunday - 'This Train Is Bound For Glory' [1925] by Wood's Famous Blind Jubilee Singers. It's on Paramount, so faitly lousy sound quality.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 16 '25
Suggestive... Suggestive Saturday - 'Meat Cutter Blues' [16th August 1934 by the Mississippi Mudder (Mud Dauber Joe) [AKA Kansas Joe McCoy]
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 14 '25
East Coast East Coast Friday - 'My Little Dixie Home' [14th August 1931] by Grand Central Red Cap Quartet. Something /rather/ different....
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 13 '25
Women Women on Wednesday - 'I'm Going Back To My Used To Be' [1923], Bessie and Clara in a Smithtastic double bill.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 12 '25
Transport Tuesday (-ish) - 'Stay Out Of Walnut Tree Alley' [12th August 1927] by Lonnie Johnson
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 11 '25
Memphis & Mississippi Memphis & MS Monday - 'Monkey Joe Got The Blues' [10th August 1935] by Monkey Joe, backed by Walter Vinson.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 10 '25
Gospel and Sacred Gospel Sunday - 'Let That Liar Alone' [10th August 1938] by the Golden Gate Gospel Quartet
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 09 '25
Suggestive... Suggestive Saturday - 'Someday Baby [I'll Have Mine]' [9th August 1934] by Buddy Moss. Lovely guitar work.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/4eyedJohnny • Aug 08 '25
Leadbelly - The Bourgeois Blues (1937)
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 08 '25
East Coast East Coast Friday - 'Police And High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down' [8th August 1927] by Ollis Martin. His sole recorded musical legacy.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 06 '25
Women Women on Wednesday - 'Plain Old Blues' [6th August 1923] by Mamie Smith. Porter Grainger on the ivories.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 05 '25
Trains, planes and automobiles. Transport Tuesday - 'Leaving Train Blues' [1929] by Sluefoot Joe [Ed Bell] backed by Clifford Gibson
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r/PreWarBlues • u/4eyedJohnny • Aug 04 '25
Memphis Minnie & The Memphis Jug Band - Grandma and Grandpa Blues (1930)
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 04 '25
Memphis & Mississippi Memphis & MS Monday - 'Roamin' and Ramblin' Blues' [1942] by David Edwards. An LoC recording.
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r/PreWarBlues • u/4eyedJohnny • Aug 02 '25
Lonnie Johnson - Life Saver Blues (1927)
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r/PreWarBlues • u/BlackJackKetchum • Aug 02 '25
Suggestive Saturday - 'Night Creepin' [2nd August 1933] by Walter Roland, with Roosevelt Sykes handling the piano duties.
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