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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.
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.
Back to normal on Backbeat this week, whatever that is. All over the musical map featuring some well-knowns like Joe Turner and unknowns like Buck Griffin (pictured) as well as a band with what has to be the longest name in music history.
I've got some unusual records cued up for Backbeat this week, as well as the usual mix of gospel, blues, country jazz and rock 'n' roll. We'll have a black vocal group backed up by a white clarinet player, one of Hoagy Carmichael's weirder songs, a novelty number about playing piano and a lively number by the Todd Rhodes Orch., a band whose story line stretches from 1930s jazz to 1950s rock 'n' roll to 1960s Motown.
It's our annual listener favourites year-end show this week. We feature the songs and artists that listeners around the world have reacted to. We have requests and reactions from Newfoundland and Labrador, British Columbia, Tokyo, Mexico and California. It's a New Year's party not to be missed
It's our annual Holiday Edition of Backbeat this week, all kinds of festive music guaranteed to please even people who don't like festive music. From Hank Snow (of course) to Big Maybelle, to the Stanley Brothers to Chris Isaak to fun-loving group Hey, Wow to Stompin' Tom Connors, there's something for everybody. Have fun but don't over do it, or you might spend Christmas in jail.
This week has lots of blues, by blues singers this time, that just the way it goes. We'll also hear some movie music, a Zydeco Queen who got into playing music professionally in mid-life, records with star back-up singers (made before they were stars) and a new record from country singer Jeff Beadle that doesn't sound very country.