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Black And Blues
Sunday September 28th, 2014 with Stephen Neale
I've Got Them Fill-in Blues

Last minute fill-in for John Tackaberry: A general mix of blues, with a bit of R&B, soul and gospel.
Crazy Mixed Up World
Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues - Blues Shock - Blind Pig Records
Only In It For The Money
Jimmy Smith - Dot Com Blues - Blue Thumb Records / Verve (2001)
Slender Man Blues
James Armstrong - Dark Night - HighTone Records
Skinny Little Woman
Bobby Rush with Blinddog Smokin' - Decisions - Silver Talon Records
Cook my Breakfast
Tomcat Courtney - Downsville Blues - Blue Witch Records
What's Going on in my Home?
Luther Allison - Blue Streak - Alligator Records
Restless Feeling (fade)
Carl Weathersby - The Best of - Evidence Records
Why I Sing the Blues (1969)
B.B. King - The Best of - Fame Records (1973, MCA)
Who Will the Next Fool Be?
Bobby 'Blue' Bland - The Voice: Duke Recordings 1959 - 69 - ACE Records
Open House at my House
Z.Z. Hill - The Rhythum & the Blues - Malaco
Trapped
Carl Sims - House of Love - Paula Records
Childhood Days
The Universal Jubileers - Good God!: A Gospel Funk Hymnal - Numero Group (010; 1973)
This 4-CD set features, as the title describes, electrifying gospel music from this Nashville-based label. Put together by the Tompkins Square team, the same group responsible for the equally impressive 3CD sets of Fire in my Bones: Raw + Rare + Otherwordly African-American Gospel (1944-2007) and This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM (1957-1982); they have exceeded themselves with this compilation.



The four discs are titled as follows:
- Disc One: Looking for a Better Place to Live (1951-1957)
- Disc Two: Seat in the Kingdom (1958-1963)
- Disc Three: Don't Drive Your Children Away (1964-1967)
- Disc Four: Heaven, I've Heard So Much About It (1968-1983)
It's Hard To Get Along (1955)
Swanee Quintet - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
Seat in the Kingdom (1962)
Hightower Brothers - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
Time is Winding Up (1964)
Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
Everybody Ought to Pray (1969)
Bevins Specials - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
That's the Spirit (1970)
Rev. Willingham and the Swanee Quintet - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
Trouble at Midnight (1954)
Roy Brown - Mighty Mighty Man! - ACE / King Records
"Troubles" - Chicago blues from John & Sylvia Embry first recorded for Razor Records reissued with additional songs by Delmark
I've Got Two Men
Nora Jean Bruso - Going Back to Mississippi - Severn Records
Troubles
Sylvia Embry & John Embry - Troubles - Delmark Records
I Can't Quit You Baby (Live)
Little Milton - Stax Profiles - Stax Records
Your Turn to Cry
Jimmy Johnson Band - x - x