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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.
We've got many different kinds of blues on Backbeat this week, Professor Longhair gives us his quirky take on the boogie, followed by Smokey Rogers, also doing a blues boogie. We'll hear a very young LaVern Baker with the Todd Rhodes Orchestra and Robert Petway, a obscure country blues artist whose songs were very influential. All that and some new music by Trevor Tchir, an Earl King guitar classic that Jimi Hendrix also recorded and some fine harmony to mix everything together.
We've got another new show this week packed with goodies On this show you'll hear everything from raunchy blues, hillbilly hokum and a Caribbean groove to the record that defines sultry, smokey, lounge jazz. Brownie McGhee, Hank Snow, The Soul Stirrers, Harry Manx and Howlin' Wolf all contribute to the mix..
On this week's show we've got two of the fastest guitar players in the business taking us to the stratosphere, Roy Brown's original version of a song B.B. King made famous, Wild Bill Moore balances jazz and rock & roll, and what may be the best version of Stormy Weather ever. We'll also hear Ray Charles' smooth country side and Sinead X Sanders modern take on rockabilly.
This week you'll hear Moon Mullican doing a song we mostly relate to Nat King Cole, then a recording by Nat that isn't well known at all. We'll also have some great Nashville recordings - and not all are country - including a record many would call rockabilly, but made by the group in the picture before that was a thing. We'll throw in an early jazz number by McKinney's Cotton Pickers - even if you don't know the band you probably know most of the players, and some great Hawaiian guitar pickin' by King Nawahi. Patsy Cline, Blue Moon Marquee and Brandon Isaak are going to help us along - should be a good show.
This week's show features an R&B singer who said his first influence was Gene Autry, and we have a great, little-known country singer delivering us a well-known song that she wrote. We'll hear some rock & rollers revive R&B songs as well as modern revivalists The Bebop Cowboys and Jack DeKeyser, all tied together with classic George Jones, down home blues, gospel harmony and much more.
We're rockin' and jivin' all over the world again this week; from the deep south to British Columbia to France and back again to Jamaica we got blues, country, gospel and rock 'n' roll like you'll hear nowhere else on the radio. Where else can you hear the Ravens jiving an Irving Berlin tune, Bobby Daring reviving a novelty from 1902, Slim Gaillard extolling the virtues of Matzoh balls, sweet country singing from a woman so obscure we don't even know her full name, and Sabrina Weeks boogieing downtown all in one show?
Lots of trailblazers again this week, you'll hear the first country artist to use a solid-body electric guitar, the first female vocal group stars, the first female country star, the Harmonizing Four reviving an old spiritual with an implied anti-slavery message, plus another gospel group with another much more direct message and a lot more.
This week's show features the first American-born guitar hero, a calypso song recorded in Indiana, what is reputed to be the first country feminist song, some slick walking by the Golden Gate Quartet and the Everly Brothers tell a tale of a disastrous first date. Not the one where their date fell asleep, the one where she went to jail.
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.