Chicken Shack Alley (Music)
With Rich Barta
Sun Jul 29th 2012 6.00pm–8.00pm
R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. Your purchases using the Buy it! links
Time zone: central
6:05pm | Big Mama Thornton “Let Your Tears Fall Baby” from Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings (MCA 1992) —recorded in 1952 for a Peacock singleBuy it! |
6:08pm | Dinah Washington “Fat Daddy” from A Slick Chick (On the Mellow Side): The Rhythm & Blues Years (Mercury 1983) —recorded with the Jimmy Cobb Quintet in NYC, 1952Buy it! |
6:11pm | Ruth Brown “Mend Your Ways” from Rockin' In Rhythm - The Best of Ruth Brown (Atlantic 1996) —recorded in 1953 in NYC for an Atlantic single.Buy it! |
6:15pm | Lowell Fulson “Do Me Right” from The Complete Chess Masters (Chess 1997) —recorded in 1955, originally Checker single 820.Buy it! |
6:18pm | Jimmy Liggins “Goin' Down with the Sun” from Jimmy Liggins and His Drops of Joy, Vol. 2: Rough Weather Blues (Specialty 1992) —a Specialty single recorded in 1951Buy it! |
6:21pm | Johnny "Guitar" Watson “Baby Don't Leave” from var: West Coast Guitar Killers, Vol. 2 1952-1969 (El Segundo) —originally released as JOWAT single 118; HEAVY use of distortionBuy it! |
6:27pm | Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins “Another Fool in Town” from Blues Kingpins (Virgin Records America 2003) —originally released on RPM in 1953Buy it! |
6:30pm | John Lee Hooker “Women and Money” from The Complete '50s Chess Recordings (MCA 1998) —recorded in Detroit in 1952, with Bob Thurman, Tom Whitehead and Eddie KirklandBuy it! |
6:33pm | Jimmy Reed “Tell The World I Do” from Now Appearing (Rhino-Collectables 2000) —originally released on Vee-Jay in 1960Buy it! |
6:41pm | B.B. King “crying won't help you” from Do The Boogie! B. B. King's Early 50s Classics (Virgin Records America 1988)Buy it! |
6:44pm | Little Junior Parker's Blue Flames “Sittin' Drinkin' and Thinkin'” from var: Sun Records - The Ultimate Blues Collection (Varese Sarabande 2003) —recorded in 1953, not sure who the fine guitar player is, but it's probable that it's Earl Hooker.Buy it! |
6:47pm | Bobby "Blue" Bland “You've Got Bad Intensions” from The Anthology - 1952-1982 (MCA 2001) —recorded in Houston in 1955 with the Bill Harvey Orch, featuring Joe Scott, Pluma Davis and Roy Gaines.Buy it! |
6:53pm | Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown “Depression Blues” from var: Boogie Uproar - Texas Blues and R&B 1947-1954 (JSP Records 2006) —JSP Box Set; tune was recorded in Houston in 1954Buy it! |
6:56pm | Junior Wells “Blues Hit Big Town (take 5)” from Blues Hit Big Town (Delmark 1998) —recorded for United Records in 1954, with the Muddy Waters band and Louis Myers.Buy it! |
6:59pm | Little Walter “The Toddle” from Confessin' the Blues (MCA 1996) —Luther Tucker and Freddie Robinson on guitars, also Below, Dixon and Spann.Buy it! |
7:01pm | T-Bone Walker “I Got the Blues” from T-Bone Walker the complete Imperial Recordings 1950-1954 (EMI Records 1991) —recorded in Los Angeles in 1951Buy it! |
7:04pm | George Harmonica Smith “Love Life” from Harmonica Ace - The Modern Masters (Ace 1991) —RPM circa 1956Buy it! |
7:07pm | Pee Wee Crayton “Texas Hop (alt take)” from The Modern Legacy Vol. 1 (Ace 1996)Buy it! |
7:10pm | Sonny Boy Williamson “Goin' In Your Direction” (Alligator 1994) —album of Trumpet Records side, recorded in 1954.Buy it! |
7:13pm | Elmore James “Dust My Broom” from Sonny Boy Williamson, King Biscuit Time (Arhoolie www.arhoolie.com 1989) —Elmore's 1st recording of Dust My Broom, with Sonny Boy II on harpBuy it! |
7:16pm | Howlin' Wolf “The Natchez Burnin'” from His Best, Vol. 2 (Hip-O Select Retail (MC) 1998)Buy it! |
7:18pm | Little Richard “All Around The World” from The Very Best of Little Richard (Concord Records, Inc. 1956) —Specialty single in 1956Buy it! |
7:21pm | Chuck Berry “Around and Around” from The Anthology (MCA 2000) L —1958Buy it! |
7:24pm | Bo Diddley “I'm Looking for a Woman” from The Chess Box 1955-1969 (MCA 1990) —1955Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.