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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.
If you like your jazz, blues, country and gospel all mixed together - sometimes in the same recording - this is the show for you. We've got everything from Roy Acuff to the Coasters, a classic from Big Joe Williams who does mix almost all of those elements using his unique 9-string guitar, a washboard and a violin. You'll also hear two new "vintage" country music records from Weepn' Dave and Kate Reid..
This week you'll hear everything from the hokum blues of Tommy McClennan (doing a song that became an Albert King hit) to a George Jones novelty number, an old timey pre-bluegrass string band, gypsy jazz from France (that what they called it), one of the first pop hits recorded at the FAME studio in Muscle Shoals and a lovely, accapella version of a Leonard Cohen song
More vintage music the way it should be; all natural ingredients, no artificial sweeteners with a taste of everything from country to calypso, low-down blues to righteous gospel, familiar and obscure. Some cool steel guitar playing too.
Vintage music lives on Backbeat with another great line-up this week that includes Memphis Minnie, the Five Blind boys of Mississippi, Dinah Washington and a couple of current Canadian vintage country artists, Alberta's Leanne Lightfoot and Saskatchewan's Jake Vaadeland.
We've got Roosevelt Sykes who was Living In A Different World in 1946. Sure was. We'll hear what is likely the first version of Mexican Hat Rock that was only issued in Canada, by an American band; we've got a calypso band from Africa, some close harmony country singing and the irresistible blues-boogie piano stylings of Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, who began his career in LA in the 1960s and is still hard at it today in Canada.
This week as we deal with everything from questionable food choices to tears in ears. You'll hear records by big stars like Gene McDaniels and The Clovers and small stars like Larry Dale and Doug Kershaw who became big stars (or didn't) while current star Sean Poluk gives us the classic blues sound.
We're keepin' it real on Backbeat this week, as always. Straight ahead music, entertaining and fun. Groove to Joe Turner, Sidney Bechet, Marvin Gaye, Hank Snow, the Zion Travelers, you get the picture.
Is this week's show different from previous weeks? Not really. It's the same mix of blues, country, rock & roll, gospel, jazz and everything else but it is all new tunes, mixed together in a unique blend. There's a 1950s integrated rockabilly band, an R&B pioneer who died just as the sound was taking off, some fine gospel quartet harmony and some clever songwriting in the classic honky-tonk style from Big Fancy, AKA Blake Bamford.
We're back again this week with a new pile of old records from regular favourites such as Ruth Brown, James Brown, the Maddox Brothers and Lefty Frizzell almost-unknowns such as Marian Abernathy and Ashton Savoy, who had his own unique blend of blues styles. We'll hear the gospel side of Mary Deloach, who, under a pseudonym, also recorded racy blues numbers. Chris Whitley and Diana Braithwaite give us dose of down-home blues while Smiley Lewis and Earl King give us a dose of New Orleans.
This week's pile of old records on Backbeat features gospel singers Dorothy Love Coates & the Gospel Harmonettes, country blues, a swingin' western band, excellent group harmony, jazz orchestras, blues and modern takes on old styles. I know, it always does but every week is a completely new pile.