on CKHA, Canoe-FM, Sundays at 10 AM Eastern Time. Link will take you to their site.
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Backbeat Radio Broadcast on radio stations across Canada and the U.S.A. See below for a list. |
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Backbeat Radio Broadcast on radio stations across Canada and the U.S.A. See below for a list. |
on CKHA, Canoe-FM, Sundays at 10 AM Eastern Time. Link will take you to their site.
This week's show has Chicago blues from J.B. Lenoir, sweet country harmony from The Stanley Brothers, an old time classic from the Carter Family, gospel harmony, hard soul from James Brown or a Sun rocker with a weird piano intro.
You wanna hear blues? We got it with Howlin' Wolf, Lonnie Johnson and Baby Face Leroy. Jazz from Helen Humes and The Missourians, country from Merle Kilgore, Boots Faye and Idaho Call (who?), plus gospel, Latin and newer music from Brandon Isaac and Bill King.
This week on Backbeat we sample a new compilation by Dick Spottswood focusing on 1925, the year electrical recordings first appeared while blues, country and gospel were emerging as musical forms. We've also got a lot of music from New Orleans and the Bayou (just the way it works out sometimes) and everything from the raw blues of Lightnin' Slim to the smooth sound of Jane Morgan
I found another pile of old records for Backbeat this week, plus a trove of newer stuff that fits right in with the vintage sound. Jake Vaadeland & the Sturgeon River Boys have a new album that delves deep into Carter Family era of country music while Weepin' Dave and the Diamond Boys get into 1970s Bakersfield sound for their new song. Along with that we've got classics from Meade Lux Lewis, Mac Wiseman, John Lee Hooker and many more from artists you may not have heard of.
This week it's hot blues from Robert Nighthawk, sweet country from The Miller Sisters, jumping jazz from Joe Venuti, sizzling soul from Irma Thomas and intense gospel from The Soul Stirrers along with new tracks from two artists who settled in Nova Scotia, Joe H Henry and Dee Hernandez.
Lots to listen to on Backbeat this week, Billy Edd Wheeler blisters through a song he wrote for Johnny Cash, Dinah Washington salutes Bessie Smith, we get a hillbilly version of In The Mood, and Homer and Jethro give us out-of-date humour with some hot pickin'. You'll also hear traditional Finnish vocalizing, a couple of iconic dance numbers and a lot more.
This week we hear one of the longest-running groups in country music history, and Lou Mac, a Chicago blues singer who made a few critically acclaimed records in 1955 but didn't get a hit so she quit and went on to lead a normal life. We've also got an obscure gospel group with a poorly recorded song that is still irresistibly catchy, and another song from One String Sam that is simply out of this world. Mix in some Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and a very early Everly Brothers record and you've got an hour of music that can't be beat.
Ya don't get no summertime blues listening to Backbeat, just simple music designed to make you feel good. Roy Brown, the master of good rockin' starts us off, then you'll hear an obscure Louisiana bluesman, Country Jim Bledsoe, who was doing Swamp Blues before it was a thing, then the fun continues with Django Reinhardt, Sam Cooke, The Stoneman Family, Blue Moon Marquee and a lot more.
This week you'll hear the flamboyant and influential Prof. Alex Bradford, a group of very good country musicians who gathered in a studio in 1929, but nobody knows who they were, some cool, cool jazz from Linda Carone, Bill Haley rocks Robbie Burns and if you've ever wondered how Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip would have performed a Fats Domino song, well we've got the answer.
This week we start and end with train songs that keep us chuggin' away for the whole hour. We've got Merle Travis giving us a barn burner of a boogie (which is a train song come to think of it), Kanui & Lula, who rode the Hawaiian craze in Europe and Dawn Tyler Watson who gives us blues from Montreal.