The Front Porch Blues Show

JD Esquire

Rich Blackmarr will host the Front Porch Blues Show this evening.  Tonight the focus of the first half of the program is on the range of creepy themes that appeared in old blues and jazz recordings from the 1920s through the 1950s.  These songs include superstition, fear of disease & violent death, hauntings, ghosts & skeletons, and other macabre elements appropriate to Halloween listening.  The second half of the playlist changes gears to feature the Louisiana swamp blues and R&B stylings of musicians like Katie Webster, Lightnin' Slim, Lonesome Sundown, Carol Fran, Guitar Gable, and Slim Harpo from the late 1950s and early 1960s.  Most of these artists were recorded in J.D. Miller's studios located in Crowley, Louisiana.  Miller then put some tunes out on small local labels, but leased many of these recordings to Excello Records in Nashville, Tennessee, which had good national distribution to R&B, gospel, and blues listeners and record buyers.  Enjoy! 

Genre

Blues

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