January 21, 2012 Playlist

DJ: David

Obits and songs related to Mississippi (inspired by Oxford American magazine’s 13th annual Southern music issue)

1. “Blue Suede Shoes” – Carl Perkins – Johnny Cash at Dan Quentin [Sony/Columbia/ Legacy: 2006]
   Story goes that Johnny Cash gave Perkins the idea for this song at a 1955 show in Mississippi
2. “Harlem Nocture” – The Johnny Otis Rythym and Blues Caravan – The Johnny Otis Rythym and Blues Caravan: The Savoy Recordings [Savoy Jazz: 1999]
   RIP Johnny
3. “God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)” – The Essential Etta James – The Essential Etta James [MCA: 1993]
   RIP Etta
4. “Tour of Duty” – Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Here We Rest [Lightning Rod: 2011]
   RIP freestyle skier Sarah Burke, Isbell is scheduled to appear at the 2012 Steamboat Musicfest
5. “Get Rythym” – NRBQ – At Yankee Stadium [Fontana Island: 1989]
   RIP Tom Ardolino
6. “I Loves You Porgy” – The Windmills of Your Mind – Paul Motian (vocal Petra Haden) [Winter & Winter: 2011]
   Some say Gershwin is rolling in his grave over new Broadway production of Porgy & Bess
7. “I Shall be Free No: 10” – Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan [Columbia: 1964]
   Happy 70th birthday Muhammed Ali
8. “Mississippi Goddam” – Nina Simone – Anthlogy [BMG: 2003]
   in remembrance of what this country was like before MLK Birthday became a national holiday
9. “Down in Mississippi” – Mavis Staples – Live: Hope at the Hideout [Anti: 2008]
10. “Uprising” – Wadada Leo Smith and Ed Blackwell – The Blue Mountain’s Sun Drummer [Kabell: 2011]
11. “Mississipi Delta Blues” – Leon Redbone – Double Time [Warner Bros: 1976]
12. “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” – Mississippi Fred McDowell – Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [Arhoolie: 1994]
13. “Mississippi Waltz” – Chris Thile & Michael Daves – Sleep with One Eye Open [Nonesuch: 2011]
14. “Tallahatchie River Blues” – Mattie Delaney – Mississippi Masters: Early American Blues Classics 1927-1935 [Yazoo: 1994]
15. “Mississippi Mud” – Bix Beiderbecke – The Very Best of Bix Beiderbecke [101: 2004]
16. “Did You Hear John Hurt?” – Dave Van Ronk – …And The Tin Pan Bended, And The Story Ended… [Smithsonian: 2004]
17. “Trouble I Had All My Days” – Mississippi John Hurt – Revisited [Fuel: 2011]
18. “Heart-O-Matic Love” – Bo Diddley – I’m a Man: The Chess Masters 1955-1958 [Hip-O-Select: 2007]
19. “Howlin’ for My Darling” – Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf: His Best [MCA: 1997]
20. “Sitting on Top of The World” – Carolina Chocolate Drops – Things About Comin’ My Way: a tribute to the music of the Mississippi Sheiks [Black Hen: 2009]

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

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