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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.
This week's show starts with Louis Jordan doing a song most rock 'n roll fans know well, though maybe not by him, and ends with Buddy Holly doing the same song. In between we have our usual mix of great blues, country, gospel, soul and pop from well-known and obscure performers ranging from Doris Day to Screamin' Jay. You'll also hear a great new artist, Sinead X Sanders, a young gal (not your gal) with an old musical soul breathing new life into traditional country.
Backbeat chugs along this week with some lively country from a duo known as The Canadian Sweethearts, early Chicago blues, a very early black square dance number, irresistible rockabilly, down-home gospel and Peggy Lee asserts herself.
Listen) to hear to hear a great singer and pianist from the 1940s who is making her Backbeat debut, the group that pioneered jazz played on stringed instruments in the 1920s, a classic from Lonnie Johnson, rightly called "the father of modern guitar playing" plus country classics, gospel harmony, electrified delta blues from someone you probably never heard of and a lot more.
This week there's country classics from Patsy Cline, George Jones and Tennessee Ernie Ford. We've got blues from Louisiana Red, Blue Moon Marquee and the little-known Willie Egan plus the first recording of a standard made famous by Elvis and Willie Nelson.
Remembrance day is nigh and we have some songs about soldiers coming home, and just about home in general from the likes of Dinah Washington, Bill Monroe, Soulstack, and the Silvertone Singers. We'll also hear Johnny Cash reminisce about a flood, Slim Gaillard's ode to the record shop and husband-and-wife team Texas Ruby and Curly Fox
Where else can you hear Big Joe Turner, Cousin Emmy, Happy Fats and Eddy Arnold all in one show? You'll also hear the teenage gospel group where future soul star Candi Staton got her start, as well as obscure rockabilly, blues from Brandon Isaac and a Chuck Berry classic.
It's the usual mix of the best music from what I call the best era in popular music - the 1930s to the 1960s. We'll hear about Julia Lee's obsession with the Fuller Brush Man, hot fiddle music from The Saddle Tramps, classic Piedmont blues picking from Blind Boy Fuller, hot slide guitar from Hawaiian artist George "Tautu" Archer and newer vintage music from Jake Vaadeland and Alex Pangman.
This week's show features down-home blues courtesy of Dr. Ross, smooth harmony delivered by the Golden Gate Quartet, a sentimental ballad by the Mills Brothers, plus lively gospel, honky-tonk country and a "British Invasion" star who was bigger than the Beatles, for a while, at least.
Don't miss this week's show for your usual hit of vintage blues, country, gospel, pop and whatever. You'll hear Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lulu Belle & Scotty (in the picture), the Dixie Hummingbirds, Les Paul and Mary Ford and, of course - some baseball songs. Go Jays! You'll also hear newer music from fellow-travellers Weepin' Dave and David Wilcox.
This week's show looks at dance crazes down through the years, we've got a 1948 record titled Rock and Roll by Manhattan Paul (in the picture), an early Platters record made before they developed their polished sound, some blues from an up-and-coming Texas group as well as Tampa Red, Slim Harpo and much more.