http://www.bluesroutes.com/ Your daily visit from the people, places and things along the backroads and detours of the Mississippi Delta Blues en-us Copyright 2010 SpeakLo Media - Petaluma, CA Your daily trip to The Delta Thom Butler Blues Routes is a daily five to ten minute podcast featuring the music and stories of the great Bluesmen and Blueswomen from the Mississippi and Beyond. SpeakLo Media thom@speaklo.com http://www.bluesroutes.com/bluesman.jpg http://www.bluesroutes.com/ 144 144 no Music Tue, 31 Mar 2010 13:07:00 -0800 Tue, 31 Mar 2010 13:07:00 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss thom@speaklo.com (Thom Butler) http://www.bluesroutes.com/bluesroutes2.mp3 Thom Butler A stop, look and listen to the Huddy Ledbetter train song made famous by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and covered by everyone from Woody Guthrie, to Johnny Rivers and Odetta. Music no http://www.bluesroutes.com/leadbelly_old.gif Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:50:00 -0800 5:30 http://www.bluesroutes.com/bluesroutes001.mp3 Thom Butler A musical stroll through Texas and Louisiana with the music and life of Clarence Gatemouth Brown. Music no http://www.bluesroutes.com/press02.jpg Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:58:00 -0800 10:25 http://www.bluesroutes.com/bluesroutes002.mp3 Thom Butler In our third show we ask (and perhaps even answer) the musical question... Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Music no http://www.bluesroutes.com/aac.jpg Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:10:00 -0800 10:04 http://www.bluesroutes.com/bluesroutes3.mp3 Thom Butler Possibly Billie Holiday's most famous song, Strange Fruit was written by a New York songwriter and Holiday was advised not to sing it because the subject matter (lynching) was considered too problematic. We also get to hear some amazing treatments of the song by Dee Dee Bridgewater and Rene Marie (who begins the song with her astonishing version of the southern anthem, Dixie. Music no http://www.bluesroutes.com/billie.jpg Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:15:00 -0800 7:30 http://www.bluesroutes.com/bluesroutes14.mp3 Thom Butler This depression era classic, written and recorded by Blind Alfred Reed was given a new verse and new life when Bruce Springsteen brought it to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival after Katrina devastated the city in 2005. Music no http://www.bluesroutes.com/BigBoss.jpg Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:21:00 -0800 10:11 http://www.bluesroutes.com/BlindWilly2.mp3 Thom Butler Haunting, enchanting, and evocative, Blind Willy Johnson's Good Friday masterpiece, Dark Was The Night And Cold Was The Ground, survives as one of the strongest musical reflections on The Crucifixion ever created. It came from the imagination and guitar of Blind Willy Johnson whose gospel influenced compositions include such blues classics as John the Revelator, Soul of a Man, and Ain't Nobody's Fault But Mine. In this piece we hear many of these tunes, by a wide range of artists, and learn about the street preacher/bluesman who recorded 30 gospel blues classics in under 3 years. Music no http://www.bluesroutes.com/BlindWilleJohnson.jpg Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:21:00 -0800 9:26 http://www.bluesroutes.com/sonnyboy.mp3 Thom Butler The Sonny Boy Williamson classic, Good Morning Little School Girl is one of the most recorded blues tunes in history, but it's just one of more than 120 sides that John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson (the original) recorded. In this show we listen to this classic, as interpreted by everyone from Chuck Berry to the Grateful Dead and learn a bit about the man who was the originator of what has come to be known as the classic blues harp style. Music no http://www.bluesroutes.com/sonnyboy1.jpg Tue, 31 Mar 2010 12:56:00 -0800 5:36