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Here is a summary of the previous ten Backbeat shows that can be streamed on-demand for free. Streaming service is provided by Mixcloud, clicking on the link will take you to their site.
This week as we deal with everything from questionable food choices to tears in ears. You'll hear records by big stars like Gene McDaniels and The Clovers and small stars like Larry Dale and Doug Kershaw who became big stars (or didn't) while current star Sean Poluk gives us the classic blues sound.
We're keepin' it real on Backbeat this week, as always. Straight ahead music, entertaining and fun. Groove to Joe Turner, Sidney Bechet, Marvin Gaye, Hank Snow, the Zion Travelers, you get the picture.
Is this week's show different from previous weeks? Not really. It's the same mix of blues, country, rock & roll, gospel, jazz and everything else but it is all new tunes, mixed together in a unique blend. There's a 1950s integrated rockabilly band, an R&B pioneer who died just as the sound was taking off, some fine gospel quartet harmony and some clever songwriting in the classic honky-tonk style from Big Fancy, AKA Blake Bamford.
We're back again this week with a new pile of old records from regular favourites such as Ruth Brown, James Brown, the Maddox Brothers and Lefty Frizzell almost-unknowns such as Marian Abernathy and Ashton Savoy, who had his own unique blend of blues styles. We'll hear the gospel side of Mary Deloach, who, under a pseudonym, also recorded racy blues numbers. Chris Whitley and Diana Braithwaite give us dose of down-home blues while Smiley Lewis and Earl King give us a dose of New Orleans.
This week's pile of old records on Backbeat features gospel singers Dorothy Love Coates & the Gospel Harmonettes, country blues, a swingin' western band, excellent group harmony, jazz orchestras, blues and modern takes on old styles. I know, it always does but every week is a completely new pile.
Lots of weird and wonderful records this week as usual featuring some cuts from the Allen Lowe compilation Turn Me Loose White Man. Tiny Bradshaw rocks up a blues number, we'll hear from a 1930s Mississippi barn dance group, Patsy Montana is a rodeo sweetheart, we'll hear an early record from Bo Diddley and a record made using a diddley bow. Ronnie Douglas will bring us back to Earth with his latest, then it's more rockabilly, blues and rock 'n' roll including the obligatory record with Mickey Baker on it.
This week we've got Dinah Washington's first record, some great vocal harmony, blues from Yukon's own Brandon Isaak, a Big Mama Thornton delight that isn't famous because no rock & roll artist revived it, and a New Jersey trio that most people are unaware of, though anyone listening to '60s has heard their singing (that's them in the picture)..
We have another great line-up of "music you don't hear on the radio" this week including harmony yodelling, a rousing version of Saints Go Marching In by the little-heard Papa Lightfoot, some boogie from a guy with the nick-name "Poison" and popular stage, film and TV actress Betty Garrett paying homage to Humphrey Bogart.
You don't want to skip this week's show; if you do you won't hear Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers, an early, pre-fame recording by Johnny Horton, a great send-up of Clyde McCoy by Spike Jones' trumpeter George Rock, a thoughtful piece by Roger Miller and a record by a duo named Mustard & Gravy. How could you skip that?
This week we've got the Swanee River Boys (pictured) giving us a surprisingly hip gospel boogie, David Vest does a rollicking update on a song that's over a hundred years old, and there's the usual mix of blues, country jazz and gospel that you don't hear on the radio.