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Roots and Rhythms
Wednesday August 30th, 2017 with Retro Renny
Rags to rags. The riches in rags: jazz rags, jug rags, string band rags, guitar rags, fiddle rags, blues rags and more.

All rags but no ragtime.
Twelfth Street Rag
LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS HOT SEVEN - King Louis - ‘27 OKeh Records/’05 Proper Records
Beaver Slide Rag
"PEG LEG" HOWELL & HIS GANG - Violin, Sing the Blues For Me: African-American Fiddlers 1926-1949 - '27 Columbia Records/'99 Old Hat Enterprises
Madison Street Rag
GUS CANNON & HIS JUG STOMPERS - The Memphis Jug Band with Gus Cannon & His Jug Stompers - '27 Paramount Records/'05 JSP Records
L and N Rag
ALEX HOOD'S RAILROAD BOYS - The Music Of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37 - '30 Vocalion Records/'95 Yazoo Records
Georgia Rag
BLIND WILLIE McTELL - The Classic Recordings 1927-1940 - ’31 Columbia/OKeh Records/’03 JSP Records
Hawkins Rag
GID TANNER & HIS SKILLET LICKERS with RILEY PUCKETT & CLAYTON McMICHEN - Bluegrass Bonanza: String Band Roots 1927-38 - '34 Columbia Records/'01 Proper Records
Jug Rag
THE BLUE RIDGE RAMBLERS - White Country Blues: A Lighter Shade Of Blue 1926 – 1938 - '35 Vocalion Records/'93 Sony Music Entertainment
Barn Dance Rag
BILL BOYD & HIS COUNTRY RAMBLERS - Doughboys, Playboys And Cowboys – The Golden Years Of Western Swing: Eyes Of Texas - '35 Bluebird Records/'99 Proper Records
Steel Guitar Rag
BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS - Take Me Back To Tulsa: Get With It - '36 Brunswick Records/ '05 Proper Records
Panhandle Rag
LEON McAULIFFE & HIS WESTERN SWING BAND - Hillbilly Fever: Legends Of Western Swing - '49 Columbia Records/'95 Rhino Records
Black Mountain Rag
ROY ACUFF & HIS SMOKY MOUNTAIN BOYS - The Essential Roy Acuff 1936-1949 - '49 Columbia Records/'92 Sony Music Entertainment
Guitar Rag
MERLE TRAVIS - Guitar Rags & A Too Fast Past - ’50 Capitol Records/’94 Bear Family Records
Johnson Rag
AMOS MILBURN - Rockin' And Drinkin' - '50 Aladdin Records/'12 Jasmine Records
T-Bone Rag
SPEEDY WEST & JIMMY BRYANT - Swing West! Volume 2: Guitar Slingers - '51 Capitol Records/'99 Razor & Tie Records
Guitar Rag
EARL HOOKER - Two Bugs And A Roach - '53 unknown label, unissued/'90 Arhoolie Records
Locust Hill Rag
JENKS “TEX” CARMAN “THE DIXIE COWBOY” - Chippeha! The Essential Dixie Cowboy (1947-57) - '52 Capitol Records/'98 John Fahey's Revenant
Steel Guitar Rag
IKE & TINA TURNER'S KINGS OF RHYTHM - I Like Ike! The Best Of Ike Turner - '61 Sue Records/'94 Rhino Records
Mama-Less Rag
LARRY JOHNSON with JOHN HAMMOND - Midnight Hour Blues - '71/'95 Biograph Records
Interactive CKCU
Renny G (host)
Feeling a little rough and ragged after Barnstorm.

8:10 PM, August 30th, 2017
Renny G (host)
Any one listening?

8:10 PM, August 30th, 2017
IanJ
I think we're all feeling rough and "rag"-ged as the summer creeps to a close.

8:18 PM, August 30th, 2017
kevo
just tuned in :)

8:22 PM, August 30th, 2017
Renny G (host)
Hey Kevo, hey Ian.

8:24 PM, August 30th, 2017
Renny G (host)
Thanks for tuning in.

8:25 PM, August 30th, 2017
sharon
I'm listening Renny! Sounding good :)

8:32 PM, August 30th, 2017
Renny G (host)
Hey Sharon in Caledonia.

8:41 PM, August 30th, 2017
kevo
awesome set renny!

8:57 PM, August 30th, 2017
Daragh
Sunday afternoon in hot hot Duncan, BC

4:36 PM, September 3rd, 2017