Legends Mix

Today's show got a track from a bluesman whose name is lost to history. In the seventies it was found on a tape recorded in Louisiana in the early fifties but the name of the musician was not written down, and the songs were never released. The researcher dubbed the man Pinebluff Pete, but just decades later he confessed he made up that name - and by then all of the tracks of this unknown man had been released under that made-up name.

There's more - a one-arm trumpeter, a name mix-up, the first black-owned casino in Reno, a cook, a high-octane girl and a blues from the twenties, that became a classic just fifty years later. I always got stories for you.

Transcript

Playlist

Lafayette Thomas - Weekend Blues
The Larks - Rockin' In The Rocket Room
Pinebluff Pete - No. 4 Boogie
Peppermint Harris - Lord Have Mercy
Lightnin' Hopkins - Have To Let You Go
Peter Warfield - Morning Train Blues
Lillette Thomas & her Escorts - Down It And Get From Around It
Wee Bea Booze - These Young Men Blues
Willie Brown - Ragged And Dirty
Wingy Carpenter - Rhythm Of The Dishes And Pans
Jimmy McLain - Keep Your Fly-Trap Closed
Alice Moore - Just Sitting Here Wondering
Washboard Rhythm Kings - Depression Stomp
Barbecue Bob - Going Up The Country
Victoria Spivey - My Handy Man

Outtro:

Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce

The following music served as background music during the spoken parts:

Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
Chick Webb - Blue minor
Duke Ellington - Black And Tan Fantasy
Georgia Washboard Stompers - Farewell Blues
King Brady's Clarinet Band - Embarressement Blues (Sidewalk Blues)
Lafayette Thomas - Deep South Guitar Blues
Plas Johnson - Downstairs