More usual twangy intro stuff; can't get enough of these pickers
Karl Bryan
LK Strut
Clement "Coxsone" Dodd did wonders with stuff like this Jamaican ska instrumental from Studio One, on Soul Jazz
Count Ozzie & the Zion All Stars
Holy Mount Zion
More Studio One
Alton Ellis
Alton's Groove
From "Alton is a Legend" on Heartbeat, released 1995
Big Chief Ellis
Chief's E (flat) Blues"
1974 recording with Tarheel Slim on guitar-- and Brownie McGhee helping out on other cuts
Dexter Gordon
Confirmation
Dexter plays Bird on "Daddy Plays the Horn"-- recorded in 1955, released on CD by Shout Factory, 2005)
Mance Lipscomb
Going Down Slow
That sweet East Texas blues sound, recorded in Mance's hometown of Navasota in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz. This became one of the first releases of Arhoolie Records
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Someday
This guy could play! From "Bues Guitar Heroes" on Fuel, 2003
Johnny Copeland w/ Dr. John
Ghetto Child
Clyde Copeland plays the blues on "Strike a Deep Chord: Blues Guitars for the Homeless" (Justice Records, 1992)
Zora Neal Hurston
Shove It Over
A work song, done by one of the gems of the Harlem Renaissance; from "Music from the Florida Folklife Collection" (See floridamemory.com)
Crap Eye
One Morning at the Break of Day (Wake Up Song)
Part of the Alan Lomax archives: "Mississippi Saints & Sinners"-- from the "Deep River of Song" documentary
Frank Evans
French Song
More Lomax
Fernest & the Thunders
Since You've Been Gone
Zydeco from St. Martin's Parish in the swamps of Louisiana
Los Bomboras
Run & Hide
A listener called during this set-- it was only 7 am, Saturday-- to complain that she didn't want to be jarred awake. Sorry.
Joe King Carrasco
Bandido Rock
Title cut from Joe's very political Tex-Mex party album
Los Straitjackets w/ El Vez
Rey Criollo (aka King Creole)
Los Straitjackets w/ Dave Alvin
Caifornia Sun
Nick Lowe
Poor Side of Town
Nick Lowe does a great job on this cover of the 1960s Johnny RIvers hit; from "The Convincer" (Yep Roc, 2001)
Sue Foley
Oh Baby, We Got a Good Thing Going
Cliffie Stone Orchestra
Barracuda
Not much rockin' here-- even though the CD is called "Country Goes Rock N Roll, Vol. 1: The Old Guard" (Rev Ola 2005)
Shorty Long
Who Said I Said That
Another "Country Goes Rock" tune: Shorty has a little more rock & roll growl than Cliffie
Joe Ely
Rock Me My Baby
Joe Ely knows how to take this great Shorty Long song and make it rock!
Doug Sahm
Is Anybody Going to San Antone?
"This is a song about my hometown," he says. Doug died a few years ago, still in his 50s. A real loss
Doug Sahm
Groover's Paradise
This one is about Austin. I knew the Guacamole Queen but I can't remember her name. Her brother was a pretty good session drummer
Doug Sahm
Whirlaway
Nice instrumental you a young Doug Sahm; can be found-- with lots of other good stuff-- on "San Antonio Rocks: The Harlem Recordings, 1957-1961"
Sir Douglas Quintet
Song of Everything
Doug moved his band to San Francisco in the late 60s
Los Jazz Vatos
Sho Nuff Did
Led by Doug's longtime drummer and San Antonio pal Ernie Durawa, this contemporary Austin jazz combo covers Thad Jones here.
Los Jazz Vatos
Bluellespie
A Paquito D'Rivera composition
Rich Minus
Woke Up This Morning
My old pal Rich grew up in San Antonio, near Doug and Ernie. He has a bunch of albums out of Last Call records out of Paris
Texas Tornados
Bonita Es El Espanol
Doug teamed up with Flaco Jimenez, Freddy Frender and Augie Myers in the late 80s. They did a Spanish language version of their first album, here covering Butch Hancock's "She Never Spoke Spanish To Me"
Flaco Jimenez
Swiss Waltz
Flaco plays accordian-- in every style. Here is an instrumental that mixes Tex-Mex with European sounds, a common South Texas amalgam
Flaco Jimenez
Ay Te Dijo En San Antonio
Flaco comes from a musical family from San Antonio. This classic tune was written by his dad, Santiago Jimenez, Sr.
Flaco Jimenez w/ Radney Foster
Jealous Heart
Gamble Rogers w/ Will McLean
Orange Blossom Special
Florida folkies duet
Tommy Jarrell
Let Me Fall
Tommy (on banjo) with Oscar Jenkins & Fred Cockerham, from "Down at the Cidar Mill" (Country Records, 2004)
Seldom Scene
Philadelphia Lawyer
DC-bluegrass band does Woody Guthrie
Ramblin Jack Elliot
Rex's Blues
With help from Emmy Lou Harris & Nanci Griffith, Jack covers Townes Van Zandt
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