THE BLUES KEEP MOVING ON

 

The blues get knocked down, get back up, and keep moving. Thirty songs. Two hours. 

This edition of The Scientific Method follows the blues wherever they want to go. Chicago grit, Southern soul, hard-driving guitars, deep grooves, new retro R&B, raw boogie, and the music being made right now.

Fools and lovers, accusations and second chances, gratitude and regret. Things get lost. Things get found. Plans change. Along the way, survival starts sounding a whole lot like celebration.

Old hands alongside new voices, tradition bumping into invention, and one song leading naturally —and sometimes unexpectedly — into the next.

Turn it up and follow the trail.

Tommy Castro - Bloodshot Eyes
Big Mike Aguirre - Deal with the Devil
Whitney Shay - Stand Up

Buddy Guy - Upside Down
Mike Wheeler - That's What Love Will Make You Do
Chris Shepherd - I Believe I’ll Make A Change

Son Seals - Don't Pick Me For Your Fool
Joanna Connor - When The Levee Breaks

Doyle Bramhall II - Gimme Back My Wig
Hound Dog Taylor - You Can't Sit Down
Anthony Geraci - Rockin' Til Dawn

Bernard Allison - Time Traveler (feat. Larry McCray & Matthew Mwangi)
DK Harrell - Talkin Heavy
Jeremiah Johnson - Different Plan For Me

Karate Boogaloo - We've Lost Something We Can't Replace
Thee Sacred Souls & Victor Axelrod - Waiting on the Right Time
Thee Sinseers & Joey Quiñones - Let 'Em Shine
The Womack Sisters - Chauffeur

Ruthie Foster - Thank You
Sam & Dave - I Thank You
John Primer & Friends - Little By Little

GA-20 & Charlie Musselwhite - The Blues Never Die
Eddie 9V - She Got Some Money
Eleven Guys Quartet - Cheeky Baby

Seasick Steve - Above Ground Boogie
Jamiah Rogers - Do It Right
Amani Burnham - Lovers Till They Die

Selwyn Birchwood - What I've Been Accused Of
Toronzo Cannon - If I'm Always Wrong
Chris O'Leary - How'd I Ever Get Along

LOOK OUT, PEOPLE — THE BLUES ARE LOOSE!

Guitars! Shouters! Belters! Boogie! Hoodoo! Gospel! Soul! A little sanctification and a whole lotta trouble!

We got blues chasing you! Black cats crossing your path! Cherry red wine! Blind men crying! Crybabies crying! Somebody wants to go home and somebody else had better not come around THIS house!

There's hoodoo ahead, somebody you can't escape, trouble left over from last night, a Brooklyn boogie — and waiting at the end of the whole two-hour blowout is one final piece of advice!

But you'll have to listen, brother, to FIND OUT!

Big Mike Aguirre - It Won't Be Long Kenny Neal - Blues Keep Chasing Me Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials - You Cant Strike Gold From A Silver Mine Ivan Neville & CC Adcock - One Step At A Time John Primer - Mary's Song (feat. Mary Lane) Joanna Connor - I Just Wanna Make Love To You Allly Venable - Black Cat Amani Burnham - Waiting by the Window Jamiah Rogers - On And On Bob Corritore - Blind Man Cry (feat. Sugaray Rayford) Big Daddy Wilson - Hold On To Your Love Jovin Webb - Crybaby Eddie 9V - Don't Come Around This House Jeremiah Johnson - Cherry Red Wine Mike Wheeler - Here I Am Ruthie Foster - Hold On DK Harrell - Praise These Blues Southern Avenue - Found A Friend In You The Winston Brothers - Drummer XXX Karate Boogaloo - Head First Matthew Stubbs - Stubzilla GA-20 & Charlie Musselwhite - Cristo Redentor Charlie Musselwhite - Hoodoo Queen Chris O'Leary - Nothing But a Memory Seasick Steve - Somebody Ghalia Volt - Can't Escape Bernard Allison - Last Night Charles Brown - I Want to Go Home Anthony Geraci - Brooklyn Boogie Whitney Shay - Boy Sit Down

Blues on Demand. Demand the blues.

A blues show built from what’s happening now — electric blues, soul, funk, R&B, and rock ’n’ roll, with artists who know the tradition without being trapped by it. The connections are there: in the grooves, the voices, the riffs, the attitude and the occasional sideways turn.

Not a history lesson. Not a lecture. Call it informed programming without the annotated bibliography. Mostly just letting the music do the talking. Jovin Webb - Every Time I Roll The Dice
Ghalia Volt - Last Minute Packer
Dana Fuchs - Double Down On Wrong

Bernard Allison - Hustler (feat. Bobby Rush)
Matthew Stubbs - Funky Head
Selwyn Birchwood - The Church Of Electric Swamp Funkin Blues

Chris O'Leary - One Way Street
Jimmy Vaughan, Johnny Nicholas, & Steve Riley - My Soul
Joanna Connor - Cissy Strut

Gyasi - Sukey
Tinsley Ellis - Hoodoo Woman
Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials - One Foot On The Brake, One On The Gas

Ruthie Foster - Sitting Still
Mavis Staples - Chicago
John Primer - Here I Am (feat. John Watkins)

Anthony Geraci - Even A Fool's Right Once In Awhile
Thee Sinseers & Joey Quiñones - She Was In Love
Jalen Ngonda - Hang it On The Shelf

Thee Sacred Souls & Victor Axelrod - Same Difference
The Womack Sisters - Laughter and Tears
Little Milton - We're Gonna Make It

Jamiah Rogers - Tell Me What It Is
Carolyn Wonderland - Let's Play A Game
Billie & the Kids - I Won't Be Your Fool

Mike Wheeler - Brand New Cadillac
Toronzo Cannon - Shut Up And Play
GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite - Crazy Love
Ally Venable - Money Power

Big Daddy Wilson - Voodoo
Amani Burnham - Fastlane
Bette Smith - I'm A Sinner

Bob Corritore - Tell Me Darling (feat. Carla Denise)
Eddie 9V - Dog Me Around
DK Harrell - Grown Now

The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method is a blues show that refuses to stay in one place. New voices, deep roots, soul, R&B, rock & roll, & the occasional left turn—all connected by that particular electricity that makes a great blues record impossible to sit still through.

From Carolyn Wonderland and Samantha Fish to Ike Turner and Hubert Sumlin, to Amani Burnham and Jimi Hendrix, the past keeps colliding with the present. Along the way: St. Louis history, Memphis soul, Chicago grit, Mississippi heat, and plenty of trouble.

Turn it up. Something here is bound to grab you.

Carolyn Wonderland - Truth Is
Samantha Fish - Show Me
Whitney Shay - Tell The Truth

Bernard Allison - Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo
Dave Specter - March Through The Darkness
Matthew Stubbs - Soul Bender

Jackie Brenston & the Delta Cats - Rocket88
Ike Turner Kings of Rhythm - I Know (You Don't Love Me) (feat. Tommy Hodge
St. Louis Kings of Rhythm - Just Like A Woman (feat. Clayton Love)

Ruthie Foster - Doubling Back
The Womack Sisters - If I Let You
Bette Smith - Signs & Wonders

GA-20 & Charlie Musselwhite - Big Stars Falling
Kenny Neal - Mount Up On The Wings Of The King (feat. Christone Kingfish Ingram)
Ally Venable - Unbreakable (feat. Shemekia Copeland)

Jalen Ngonda - Love is Gone
The Knight Brothers - Temptation 'Bout to Get Me
Johnnie Taylor - Cheaper to Keep Her
Thee Sinseers & Joey Quiñones - What Can I Do

Anthony Geraci - Where Were You
Big Joe Duskin - Key To The Highway
Hubert Sumlin - No Panties
Kory Montgomery - How Many People

Pokey LaFarge - Can't Take It With You
Bob Corritore - Going Fishing
John Primer - Up In Heah

Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials - 13th Street And Trouble
Dana Fuchs - Home is Where The Hatred Is
Karate Boogaloo - Down Home

Eddie 9V - Miss James
Amani Burnham - Sideways Thru Time
Jimi Hendrix - Mannish Boy
Jamiah Rogers - What'd I Say

Research Note: Jazz, Radio, Modernism

"The position of African Americans in both [Stein's] Brewsie and Willie and American wartime radio reinforces the importance of attending to the form of expressive programs. As content, African American culture and questions of race were not considered outside the purview of radio. A large part of radio's success could be attributed to its popular jazz programming."

Sarah Wilson. "Gertrude Stein and the Radio," Modernism/Modernity, Volume 11, Number 2, April 2004, page 272.

Playlist: Wednesday, August 3

Duke Ellington

Sonny Stitt (Jay Jay Johnson's Boppers) * * * Afternoon In Paris * * * Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949 - 1952 * * * Prestige

Sonny Stitt * * * Quartet Nice Work If You Can Get It * * * Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949 - 1952 * * * Prestige

Sonny Stitt (Gene Ammons Band) * * * New Blues Up and Down * * * Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949 - 1952 * * * Prestige

Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian * * * Gloria's Step * * * The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions 1961 * * * Riverside

Vadim Eilenkrig * * * C'est Si Bon * * * The Shadow of Your Smile * * * Butman Music

Oleg Butman * * * Road to the Paradise * * * Passion * * * Butman Music

Blind Boy Fuller with Sonny Terry * * * Mistreater, You're Going To Be Sorry * * * (1935 - 1940) Wolf

Hokum Boys & Jane Lucas * * * Hip Shakin' Strut * * * Shake Your Wicked Knees * * * Yazoo

Original Dixieland Band * * * Dangerous Blues * * * The 75th Anniversary * * * Bluebird

Andy Kirk * * * There's Rhythm in the River * * * Moten Swing * * * Pro-Arte

Gene Krupa & His Orchestra * * * Let Me Off Uptown * * * The Chronological: 1941 * * * Classics

Duke Ellington * * * Echoes of the Jungle * * * Creole Rhapsody * * * Living Era

Duke Ellington * * * Uptown Downbeat * * * Creole Rhapsody * * * Living Era

Duke Ellington * * * Wanderlust * * * The Duke's Men, Vol. 2 * * * Columbia

Duke Ellington * * * A Blues Serenade * * * The Duke's Men, Vol. 2 * * * Columbia

Duke Ellington * * * Diga Diga Do * * * The Duke's Men, Vol. 1 * * * Columbia

Duke Ellington * * * Pigeons and Peppers * * * The Duke's Men, Vol. 1 * * * Columbia

Slim & Sam * * * Dopey Joe * * * The Groove Juice Special * * * Columbia-Legacy

Blind Blake * * * Sweet Papa Low Down * * * The Master of the Ragime Guitar * * * Indigo

Brownie McGhee * * * Million Lonesome Women * * * Blues in History I * * * History

Kokomo Arnold & Signifyin' Mary Johnson * * * Delmar Avenue * * * Blues in History I * * * History

Son House * * * Preachin' the Blues Part 1 * * * Blues in History II * * * History

Tampa Red * * * You Can't Get That Stuff No More * * * Blues in History II * * * History

Mound City Blues Blowers * * * Tailspin Blues * * * Eddie Condon: The Classic Sessions 1928 - 1949 * * * JSP

Joe Marsala's Chicagoans * * * Jazz Me Blues * * * Eddie Condon: The Classic Sessions 1928 - 1949 * * * JSP

Doris Rhodes * * * Let There Be Love * * * Eddie Condon: The Classic Sessions 1928 - 1949 * * * JSP

Eddie Condon & His Town Hall Jazz Band * * * Uncle Sam's Blues * * * Eddie Condon: The Classic Sessions 1928 - 1949 * * * JSP

Playlist: Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Illinois John Fever
Leroy Carr * * * When the Sun Goes Down * * * Blues in History II * * * History

Robert Johnson * * * Love In Vain Blues * * * The Complete Recordings: The Centennial Collection * * * Columbia-Legacy

Dr. Clayton * * * Pearl Harbor Blues * * * Blues in History I * * * History

Sonny Boy Williamson 1 * * * Win the War Blues * * * Blues in History I * * * History

Arthur Big Boy Cruddup * * * Give Me a 32-20 * * * Blues in History I * * * History

Dr. Clayton * * * '41 Blues * * * Blues in History I * * * History

David Edwards * * * The Army Blues * * * Blues in History I * * * History

Homer Harris * * * Atomic Bomb Blues * * * Blues in History I * * * History

Andy Kirk * * * All the Jive Is Gone * * * Moten Swing * * * Pro-Arte

Tony Bennett * * * Let's Begin * * * The Beat of My Heart * * * Columbia-Legacy

Tony Bennett * * * Lullabye of Broadway * * * The Beat of My Heart * * * Columbia-Legacy

Dick Lupino * * * Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)/Come Fly With Me * * * Eclectic Nostalgia * * * DickLupinoMusic.com

Jack Wood * * * Come Rain or Come Shine * * * A Time for Love * * * WoodWorks

Ella Fitzgerald * * * Things Are Looking Up * * * Our Love is Here To Stay * * * Verve

Brian Conigliaro Trio * * * Josie * * * The Economics of Love * * * Hurry Up & Wait

James Cotton * * * Blues for Koko * * * Giant * * * Alligator

Ivan Farmakovsky * * * Morning Blues * * * The Way Home * * * Butman Music

Alexander Berenson * * * Blues for Eugene K. * * * Take Me With You * * * Butman Music

Illinois John Fever * * * Keep To Boogie If Ye Like * * * Now Is Not The Way It Is * * * Ralston Stick

South Memphis String Band * * * Bloody Bill Anderson * * * Home Sweet Home * * * Memphis International

Dave Rawlings Machine * * * To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) * * * A Friend of a Friend * * * Acony

Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers * * * Monkey on a String * * * Old Time * * * Songs County

Mark Growden * * * Shady Grove * * * Lose Me In The Sand * * * Porto Franco

Blind Blake * * * He's In the Jailhouse Now * * * Master of the Ragtime Guitar * * * Indigo

Slim & Slam * * * Swingin' in the Key of C * * * Groove Juice Special * * * Columbia-Legacy

Rum Drum Ramblers * * * If It Have To Be * * * Mean Scene * * * Lightin' Thunders

Louis Armstrong's Hot Five * * * Skid-Dat-De-Dat * * * Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 1 * * * JSP

Ory's Creole Jazz Band * * * Blues for Jimmy * * * Central Avenue Sounds. Disc 1 * * * Rhino

Texas Tommy * * * Jail Break Blues * * * Texas Blues * * * Orbis

Lonnie Johnson * * * Got The Blues For The West End * * * Thirties Blues * * * Orbis