Cross The Red River

"I think the blues will always be around. People need it"

Johnny Winter

Depois de passarmos por pontos fulcrais na história do blues primitivo, fomos aos vizinhos: Alabama, Kansas, Kentucky, Florida e Georgia. Jug bands, washboard, piedmont blues, delta, slide. Uma miscelânea sonora que se interliga pelo simpático ruído do pre-war blues.

Alabama

Washboard Trio - Red Cross Blues

Tom Bell - Corrina

Tom Bell - I Can't Eagle Rock, Lord I Can Ball The Jack

Kid West - A-Natural Blues

Noah Moore - Settin Here Thinkin'

Kansas

Lottie Beaman - Regular Man Blues

Lottie Kimbrough - Cabadge Head Blues

Lena Kimbrough - Lost Love

Charlie Turner & Winston Holmes - Rounders Lament

Kentucky

John Byrd -The Heavenly Airplane

Washboard Walter - Broadcasting Blues

Clifford Gibson - Jive Me

The Dixieland Jub Blowers - Florida Blues

Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - She's In The Graveyard Now

Whistler and His Jug Band - Low Down Blues

Florida/Georgia

Fred McMullen - Wait and Listen

Sonny Chestain - Po' Boy Long Way From Home

Burter Brown - I'm Gonna Make You Happy

James Sneed's Washboard - Southern Rag

Booker T Snaps - Boot That Thing

Próxima paragem: Back to Mississipi!

Jazzy Feel 'Round New York

"White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there"

Ma Rainey

Depois de New Orleans a escolha era óbvia: Nova Iorque. Cidade com muito espaço para o piano blues, onde se encontrava uma fusão natural entre o jazz e o blues. Para além disso, era um marco para muitos dos artistas do Midwest e da Costa Este americana que viam na Big Apple uma catapulta, onde estavam melhores contratos e editoras com melhores condições de gravação.

Big Maybelle - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show

Gaskine Hawkins - John Henry

Cootie Williams - Gator Tail

Leroy Carr - Barrell House Woman

Champion Jack Dupree - Number Nine Blues

Champion Jack Dupree - Highway Blues (Walking Down The Highway)

Josh White - Black Man

Gabriel Brown - Stick With Me

Ralph Willis - Tell Me Preety Baby

Bull City Red - I Saw The Light

Leroy Dallas - Good Morning Blues

Leroy Dallas - Jump Little Chicken

Peetie Wheatstraw - Coon Can Shorty

Curley Weaver - My Baby's Gone

Hank Kilroy - Harlem Woman

Pete Johnson - Roll Em' Pete

Brownie McGhee - I'm Gonna Move Cross The River

Ollie Shepard - Throw This Dog a Bone

Duke Bayou and His Mystic Six - Run a Little Boogie

Sonny Terry - Custard Pie Blues

Charlie Lincoln - Doodle Hole Blues

Próximo Me And The Devil: Geórgia, Alabama e outros estados

Let's Dance in New Orleans

"I'm walkin' to New Orleans, I'm going to need two pair of shoes, When I get through walkin' to you, When I get back to New Orleans"

Fats Domino

O Me and The Devil arrancou com as principais influências do New Orleans blues e R&B: calypso e dixieland. Do caribe fomos buscar o colosso Atila the Hun e King Radio e do jazz inicial o mestre Louis Armstrong com dois dos seus primeiros singles: Skokiaan e Muggles. Depois ingressámos nas pistas de dança de New Orleans, com o rythm and blues e o primitivo rock and roll a misturarem-se com o swing e o jump blues. Fomos buscar Fats Domino, nome maior de New Orleans, Champion Jack Dupree, Dave Bartholomew, fundamental na ponte entre os diferentes estilos musicais, entre outros. Uma hora a convidar a um pezinho de dança.

Atila the Hun - Women Will Rule The World
King Radio - Ribs
Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra - Skokiaan
Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra - Muggles
Fats Domino - I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday
Fats Domino - I'm Walking
Tuts Washington - Mr. Freddie Blues
Roy Byrd - Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Roy Brown - Good Rockin' Tonight
Champion Jack Dupree - Heavy Heart Blues
Archibald - Crescent City Bounce
Archibald - Stack-a-Lee
Little Joe Gaines - She Won't Leave No More
Dave Bartholomew - Good Jax Boogie
Larry Darnell - For You My Love
Shirly and Lee - I'm Gone
Lloyd Price - Where You At?

Rosetta Howard - If You're a Viper

Antecipação do próximo programa: New York Blues