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DAMN RIGHT... MUDDY AND BUDDY GOT THE BLUES!
We’ve got the Blues… and American Routes focuses on two of the genre’s heavyweights: the late Muddy Waters from Rolling Fork, MS, and the very much alive Buddy Guy, formerly of Baton Rouge, LA. First, a portrait of Muddy from his band members James Cotton, Willie Smith and Bob Margolin, with biographer Robert Gordon. Then Buddy Guy, who played guitar with Waters as a young rising star on the influential 1964 LP “Muddy Waters: Folk Singer,” and has been regarded as one of finest players of electric city blues for years. We’ll talk with Guy about his extraordinary life, his most recent CD “Blues Singer”—an acoustic tribute to the ’64 Muddy album—and his present-day Chicago nightclub devoted to the blues.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Fast Boogie Little Walter
The Essential Little Walter, MCA - Got My Mojo Workin Muddy Waters
The Best of Muddy Waters: The Millenium Collection, MCA - Feel Like Going Home Muddy Waters
Folk Singer, MCA - Everyday I Have the Blues B.B. King
King of the Blues, MCA - Blues is a Woman T-Bone Walker
The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954, EMI - I Got A Right To Sing the Blues Billie Holiday
The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love, Verve - Potato Head Blues Louis Armstrong
The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings, Sony - All Blues The Rebirth Marching Jazz Band
New Orleans Brass Bands: Down Yonder, Rounder - Instrumental: I Can't Be Satisfied Bill Frisell
Have A Little Faith, Nonesuch - Little Red Rooster The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones, Now, ABKCO - I'm the Wolf Howlin' Wolf
The Chess Box, MCA - SEGMENT: Muddy Waters, with Robert Gordon, Bob Margolin, Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith, Marshall Chess
Listen - Instrumental: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Pickin' On The Rolling Stones
Pickin' On The Rolling Stones, CMH - SEGMENT: Muddy Waters
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Lucy Mae Blues Buddy Guy with Eric Clapton
Blues Singer, Silvertone - Low Down Blues Whistler & His Jug Band
Ruckus Juice & Chitlins, Vol.1: The Great Jug Bands, Yazoo - Blues Stay Away From Me Doc Watson
Memories, Sugar Hill - Lovesick Blues Charley Pride
In Person, Koch - Home of the Blues Johnny Cash
The Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family - Memphis Chuck Berry
His Best, Volume 1, MCA - Operator Grateful Dead
American Beauty, Warner - Instrumental: Hastings Street Boogie John Lee Hooker
Graveyard Blues, Specialty - Airport Blues Silas Hogan
Trouble: The Best of Excello Masters, Excello - Hold that Plane Buddy Guy
The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Vanguard - INTERVIEW: Buddy Guy
Listen - Catfish Blues Jimi Hendrix
Blues, MCA - Instrumental: Tempo's Boogie Lionel Hampton
The Lionel Hampton Story: Flying Home, Proper - Jesus Will Fix It For You Sonny Treadway
None But the Righteous: The Masters of Sacred Steel, Rope-A-Dope - Bedside of a Neighbor The Dixie Hummingbirds
Thank You for One More Day, MCA - Yearnin Oliver Nelson
The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Impulse - Blues in the Night Bobby Bland
Turn On Your Love Light, MCA - End Bed: Jumpin' At Apollo Illinois Jacquet
Jumpin' At Apollo, Delmark