Blues Moon Radio Playlist for Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011

This past Tuesday's playlist included old and new music (new has the artist and song as well as the name of the CD):

Zoot Sims - Someone to Watch Over Me - Putamayo Presents Jazz
Fats Noel - You Belong to Me
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Shout, Sister, Shout
Quinn Sullivan - Buddy's Blues - Cyclone
Junior Wells and the Aces - Got My Mojo Workin' - Live in Boston 1966
Big Maybelle - Jinny Mule
Grady Champion - My Rooster is King
Armadillo Blues (Sweden) - Chickenfoot - Swamp Blues
Biscuit Miller - Butter my Biscuits - Blues With a Smile
Demetria Taylor - All Your Love - Bad Girl
Hollywood Blue Flames - Rambler and a Rollin' Stone - Deep in Amderica Disc 1
Jason Ricci and New Blood - Shake Your Hips
Bex Marshall - Black Guitar

Tribute to David Honeyboy Edwards from his CD, Delta Bluesman -

You Got to Roll (accapella)
You Got to Roll (Levee Camp Song)
Big Katie Allen
Number 12 at the Station
Who May Your Regular Be
Worried Life Blues
Eyes Full of Tears

Goodnight and goodbye, Honeyboy... you are missed.

Blues Moon Radio and Clair DeLune

Blues Moon Radio playlist for May 11, 2010

Good evening and welcome to the Summer semester for Blues Moon Radio at WUSC-FM, where every Tuesday is Bluesday from 6-9, which is mighty fine!

UPDATES BETWEEN 6-9 - so refresh your screen often...

Tonight we start with a tribute to award-winning Blues harpist Freddie Vanderford. The Buffalo, S.C. native was the recipient of the Jean Laney Harris Folklife Award this past week and was honored by the State Legislature Thursday. Freddie learned his technique directly from S.C. legend, Peg Leg Sam and you can tell he studied "right smart."

Freddie Vanderford (New Legacy Duo) Why You Treat Me Like That b/w She Can Cook Good Sallet
Peg Leg Sam - Who's That Left Here 'While Ago

And because she died this week - leaving a big hole in a whole lot of hearts - we'll play some dreamy Lena Horne numbers for you. She was one of my Father's favorite vocalists (and beauties), so this one is for you, Daddy... 

Lena Horne - Can't Help Loving That Man of Mine b/w Prisoner of Love

We also lost Roy Carrier, a Zydeco pioneer, last week... so this next set goes out to Chubby Carrier and the rest of Roy Carrier's family and loved ones. He made a mark so big on Zydeco music that it will be hard to play that style without missing a note from now on. 

Roy Carrier - Have Some Fun at the Offshore Lounge
Roy Carrier - What You Gonna Do with a Man Like That? b/w Some Real Zydeco

Next up is the new music from Sue Foley and Peter Karp that was developed from a year of correspondence between them. It's gone to number 1 on the Blues lists and I could not be happier for this talented duo!  The CD is "He Said, She Said" - check it out!
Peter Karp and Sue Foley - Baby Don't Go
Jon Shain - James Alley Blues (will be appearing soon in Columbia)

Naz and the Falsehoods - That Ain't Right b/w Union Avenue Stomp (Album release date is today!) from the album Pack of Lies

Also new... and with vocals that KNOCKED me out:
Joanne Shaw Taylor - Heavy Heart b/w Going Home (new CD: White Sugar)

And for those who suffered through Mother's Day without their beloved Mother...
Red Nelson - Crying Mother Blues
Elvie Thomas - Motherless Child Blues
Charley Patton - Troubled 'Bout My Mother

Son House - My Black Mamma (Pt. 1)
Salty Holmes - I Want My Mama

Michael "Hawkeye" Herman - Dark Was the Night

And because he won a Blues Music
Jason Ricci and New Blood - Done with the Devil
Tinsley Ellis (appearing at the Double Door Inn in Charlotte this week) To the Devil for a Dime b/w Hell or High Water

Robert Johnson  (birthday boy today) - Hellhound on My Trail b/w Little Queen of Spades
Tarheel Slim - Wildcat Tamer

Pat Hare - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby (Cheatin' and Lyin' Blues)
Willie Murphy - Cry to Me
Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers - Night's End

Blues History moment for 2/12 - artist of the week: Pink Anderson

Featured Blues Moon Radio artist of the week:

Pink Anderson - born Pinkney Anderson
B: Feb. 12, 1900 in Laurens, S.C.
Raised in Spartanburg, S.C.
D: Oct. 12, 1974

Grave Location:  Lincoln Memorial Gardens, Spartanburg, South Carolina USA

Rock fans know of Pink Anderson as one half of the inspiration for the name of the seminal British progressive Blues/Rock band, Pink Floyd. Originator Syd Barrett, an early Blues aficionado combined the names of two Carolina Bluesmen - Pink Anderson and Floyd Council of N.C.

According to Wikipedia, "Barrett noticed the names in the liner notes of a 1962 Blind Boy Fuller album (Philips BBL-7512). The text, written by Paul Oliver, read: 'Curley Weaver and Fred McMullen, (...) Pink Anderson or Floyd Council - these were a few amongst the many blues singers that were to be heard in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, or meandering with the streams through the wooded valleys.'"

Of course Blues fans know that Pink Anderson is an icon of Piedmont Blues, with or without a Pink Floyd tribute. Paul Oliver, a British DJ whose historical reverence for Blues preserved much of its American heritage, recognized the importance of these Piedmont Bluesmen... and that the Carolinas were the home of so many.

It was my pleasure to meet Pink's son, Alvin Pinkney - known as Little Pink - in the early 90s. Little Pink worked with his father from a young age in the medicine shows as a dancer and learned guitar from him. Little Pink began performing music again following a visit to my USC Honors College Blues History class where I was pleased to introduce him to Freddie Vanderford, who learned harmonica under the tutelage of Peg Leg Sam - another S.C. Blues treasure. Their first gig together as the Legacy Duo was booked by me at the Art Bar in Columbia. While there is no doubt that these two musicians are singular individuals, it was as close as one could imagine to seeing and hearing the two talented old-time medicine show performers play together again.

This photo of Pink Anderson is with a boy, who is - based on his features and unmistakeably expressive face - his young son Alvin, later better known as Little Pink Anderson.

We commemorate this great Bluesman - on this, the date of his birth.

Blues Moon Radio Playlist and info Nov. 3, 2009

Tribute to Norton Buffalo

Norton Buffalo - Is It Love
Roy Rogers/Norton Buffalo - Ain't No Bread in the Bread Box
Roy Rogers - Black Cat Bone

Pinetop Perkins - Ida B.
Robben Ford - Lovin' Cup

Paul Butterfield Band - Born in Chicago
Elvin Bishop - remarks on the Butterfield Band
Elvin Bishop - Shady Lane b/w So Glad You're Mine
Elvin Bishop - remembers the Fillmore

James Cotton - Lightnin' b/w Superharp
George Thorogood & the (Delaware) Destroyers - Madison Blues b/w One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

Maria Muldaur - It's a Blessing
Chris Cain - Movin' Back to Memphis b/w Pick Up the Tab

Sonny Terry - I'm a Stranger Here
Taj Mahal - Senor Blues
Duke Robillard - My Plea

Again, my sympathies to the family and dear friends of Norton Buffalo, and to his fans. He will be missed.

New music segment of Blues Moon follows...

Bobby Jones - Mystery Train
Coco Montoya - Sending Me Angels
Nicole Hart - Heart Trouble

Thank you all for tuning in... such a sad event, but perhaps we can focus on the great joy our musical heroes provide for us all ... always in our hearts and minds.

Take care of yourselves, and each other... See you on Facebook and Twitter and the Blog - until next week on the air!
Clair DeLune

Artist of the week - Willie Mabon

Happy birthday to Willie Mabon

(B: Oct. 24, 1925; D: April 19, 1985)

Considered more sophisticated and urbane than "downhome" Bluesmen such as Muddy Waters, Willie Mabon provided some great tunes - often covered by other artists - that have made him legendary, such as "I'm Mad," "Poison Ivy" and the quirky "I Don't Know," which was perhaps his biggest hit.

Willie Dixon, in his "I Am the Blues" biography, attributes Mabon's lack of success with the Chess label to his interest in being paid for his work, which was often not the case for Blues artists in the 50s.

Arguing over the dollar was a sure way not to be invited back to record - at least not in a hurry. However, Mabon's legend will stand the test of time. His sultry, slurry vocals, piano and harmonica expertise land him firmly in the realm of the Chicago Blues greats.

Clair DeLune Oct. 25, 2009