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Backbeat Radio Broadcast on radio stations across Canada and the U.S.A. See below for a list. |
Here is a summary of the previous ten Backbeat shows that can be streamed on-demand for free. Streaming service is provided by Mixcloud, clicking on the link will take you to their site.
A radio show that touches on everything from classics, blues raunch, a female impersonator and sweet country harmony. Listen to Backbeat to hear Ella Fitzgerald, Muddy Waters, Hazel Scott tearing up the piano and Rebekah Hawker tearing up her song about turning 29.
More of the weird and wonderful this week as we hear a 50s pop group figuring out how to do rock & roll, an obscure R&B record from the equally obscure Bobby Mandolph, a Fillipino-African-American-Latin soul singer with an infectious dance number, a vocal harmony group doing a song with a bizarre spoken recitation that inspired Frank Zappa, plus newer vintage music from Alex Pangman, Little Rachel and a lot more.
This week's show covers almost a full century of recording with country blues, bluesy country, bluegrass and gospel blues. We'll hear a Charlie Rich track recorded for Sun that the label considered too good for rock & roll, a cello and voice piece from Kevin Fox, Sinead X Sanders modern rockabilly and a 1950s tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis that didn't chart but is now considered a classic.
More of the same this week on Backbeat - except different, because you'll rarely hear anything repeated, there's just too much to play. Such as gospel from Clara Ward, jug band music from Clarence Williams, African jive on a pennywhistle from West Nkosi, a Japanese take on a classic Duke Ellington song, Eddy Arnold's first hit and a nice new one from Reid Jamieson.
Your weekly dose of straight-from-the-heart music the way they used to make it, and some, like Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley, still do. Tune in to hear blues, gospel, country, jazz, pop and international music from decades past up to now.
This week hear records made by Esther Phillips, Roy Acuff, Muddy Waters and Gregory Isaacs early in their careers. There's also a couple of obscure country singers, one so obscure nobody is sure when his record was made. You don't want to miss a beautiful bluegrass harmony record by Reno & Smiley, great blues from Matt Anderson and so much more
This week we've got legendary pioneers Tiny Bradshaw, Blind Willie Johnson, Arthur Crudup, The Boswell Sisters and a language lesson from the amazing Slim Gaillard, as well as new vintage music from Jake Vaadeland and Sinead X Sanders.
This week's show has some old favourites such as the King Cole Trio, The Mills Brothers and The Harmonizing Four with recordings I haven't played before, George Jones gives us an example of great songwriting (and singing), Pat Johnson unleashes a new rockabilly-styled single with a message and more of the usual mix of blues, country and gospel not found anywhere else.
Hear LaVern Baker before she was famous, and Margaret Watkins, a popular live performer who never became famous on record. Then there's Thomas Wayne, who got famous right out of the gate but couldn't repeat the trick, The Flamingoes, whose ethereal sound took years to catch on and a 50s rockabilly artist who never had a hit but became famous 30 years later anyway.
This week's comfort music is provided by Fats Waller, The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Jimmie Davis, Brandon Isaak, Jimmy Cliff, Stray Dawg and the Wolves, The Isley Bros. and some other less familiar names like acclaimed session guitarist Wild Jimmy Spruill.