The Front Porch Blues Show with J.D. Esquire and Friends
JD Esquire & Rich Blackmarr
Front Porch Blues Show with Rich Blackmarr on January 5, 2014 from 8:00 to 10:00 PM. This installment of the FPBS will venture back sixty years to focus on blues recordings released in the first half of 1954. In the first decade after WWII, blues still figured prominently in record sales in the developing R&B market, predominantly the African-American community. From the biggest Billboard R&B hits of 1954 like Guitar Slim's The Things That I Used To Do to some of the last commercial recordings of pre-war blues stars like Memphis Minnie and Tampa Red to the new blues stars like Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, and B.B. King, this show will illustrate the variety of the blues scene in early 1954.
Genre
Blues
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Sunday 1/05/2014 @ 8:00PM - 10:00PM
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Wells | Hoodoo Man | Junior Wells - Blues Hit Big Town | Delmark | orig. States rec, Elmore James on guitar |
| Big Joe Turner | TV Mama | History of Elmore James | Rhino | Atlantic recording |
| Elmore James | Make My Dreams Come True | The Resurrection of Elmore James | Kent LP | Flair orig |
| Little Milton | If You Love Me | Little Milton Anthology 1953-1961 | Varese Sarabande | Sun rec; Ike Turner piano |
| Howling Wolf | Rockin' Daddy | Real Folk Blues/MoreReal Folk Blues | MCA Chess | Chess; Lee Cooper gtr, Otis Spann piano |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Lil Greenwood | All Is Forgiven | Lil Greenwood - walking and singing the blues | Ace | Federal |
| Faye Adams | Crazy Mixed Up World | Faye Adams - Shake A Hand 1953-1957 | Acrobat | Herald |
| Lula Reed | Your Key Don't Fit It No More | Lula Reed - I'm Gone, Yes I'm Gone | Sing LP | King rec w/ Sonny Thompson |
| Big Mama Thornton | My Man Called Me | Best of Big Mama Thornton | MCA Peacock | Peacock w/ Johnny Otis band |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Tampa Red | Big Stars Falling Blues | Chicago Is Just That Way - 4 cd compilation | JSP | RCA Victor |
| Memphis Minnie | Kissing In The Dark | Complete Post-War Recordings - Vol. 3 | Wolf | J.O.B. w/ Lil Son Joe 2nd gtr |
| Memphis Slim | Sassy Mae | Memphis Slim - U.S.A. | Delmark/ Pearl LP | United w/ Matt Murphey gtr |
| T-Bone Walker | Pony Tail | T-Bone Walker - The Complete Imperial Recordings | EMI | Imperial |
| Sonny Boy Williamson | Red Hot Kisses | Goin' In Your Direction - Sonny Boy Williamson | Trumpet | Trumpet w/ James Williamson gtr |
| B.B. King | The Woman I Love | Do The Boogie! B.B. King's Early 50s Classcs | Flair | RPM |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Professor Longhair | Tipitina | Professor Longhair's New Orleans Piano | Atlantic | Atlantic |
| Frankie Lee Sims | Rhumba My Boogie | Frankie Lee Sims - Lucy Mae Blues | Specialty | Specialty |
| Chuck Willis | I Feel So Bad | Chuck Willis - My Story | Epic LP | Okeh |
| Percy Mayfield | Loose Lips | Percy Mayfield - Poet of the Blues | Specialty | Specialty |
| Big Maybelle | I've Got A Feeling | The Big Maybelle Okeh Sessions | Epic 2LP | Okeh |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Lazy Bill Lucas | She Got Me Walkin' | Chicago Blues - The Chance Era | Charly 2cd | Chance |
| Eddie Boyd | Picture In The Frame | Eddie Boyd and his Chess Men - Rattin' And Running Around | Crown Prince LP | Chess |
| Guitar Slim | The Things That I Used To Do | Guitar Slim - Sufferin' Mind | Specialty | Specialty |
| Junior Parker | Can't Understand | Junior Parker - Backtracking, The Duke Recordings, Vol. 2 | MCA Duke | Duke |
| Little Walter | You're So Fine | The Essential Little Walter | MCA Chess 2cd | Checker |
| Muddy Waters | I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man | Muddy Waters - The Anthology | MCS Chess 2cd | Chess |
| Airbreak | ||||
| J.B. Hutto & his Hawks | Combination Boogie | Chicago Blues - The Chance Era | Charly 2cd | Chance |
| Doctor Ross | Chicago Breakdown | Sun Records - The Ultimate Blues Collection | Varese Sarabande 3cd | Sun |
| Jimmy McCracklin | Blues Blasters Boogie | Jimmy McCracklin - Blues Blastin' - The Modern Recordings, Vol. 2 | Ace | Modern |
| Young John Watson | Space Guitar | Johnny Guitar Watson - I Heard That | Charly LP | Federal |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Charles Brown | I Want To Fool Around With You | Capitol Blues Collection - The Cocktail Combos | Capitol 3cd | Aladdin |
| Al Hibbler | Fat and Forty | Shoutin', Swingin', and Makin' Love | MCA Chess | Chess |
| Dinah Washington | Short John | The Complete Dinah Washington On Mercury, Vol. 3 (1952-1954) | Nippon Phonogram | Mercury |