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Episode 9: "Bring it on Home" Locale: San Francisco In the early ‘60s, America was listening to re-constituted country blues, while England was experimenting with its own version of electric blues. It wasn’t long before both camps came together and colored the sound of rock in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, capping off a decade of unprecedented blues popularity among whites. Musical highlights include recordings by Led Zeppelin, Cream, the Rolling Stones, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Allman Brothers Band, Janis Joplin, and Johnny Winter. Hot Tuna demonstrates how the blues permeated all of rock music at the time. Listen: Full Version » Windows Media Part 1 » Windows Media Part 2 » Windows Media Part 3 » Windows Media Read Transcript » Supplemental Audio: Charlie Musselwhite (1 of 5) Windows Media Charlie Musselwhite (2 of 5) Windows Media Charlie Musselwhite (3 of 5) Windows Media Charlie Musselwhite (4 of 5) Windows Media Charlie Musselwhite (5 of 5) Windows Media Hot Tuna Walking Blues Windows Media Taj Mahal (1 of 4) Windows Media Taj Mahal (2 of 4) Windows Media Taj Mahal (3 of 4) Windows Media Taj Mahal (4 of 4) Windows Media Supplemental Material: Names Discussed in this Episode Links courtesy of All Music Guide The Allman Brothers Band, The Animals, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Elvin Bishop, Mike Bloomfield, Ronnie Baker Brooks, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Canned Heat, Jack Casady, Ry Cooder, Cream, Jessie Ed Davis, Willie Dixon, The Doors, The Electric Flag, Sleepy John Estes, Aretha Franklin, Billy Gibbons, Bill Graham, The Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, John Hammond, Slim Harpo, Jimi Hendrix, Dusty Hill, Lightnin' Hopkins, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Jethro Tull, Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Jorma Kaukonen, Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King, Robby Krieger, Sam Lay, Leadbelly, Led Zeppelin, Taj Mahal, Ray Manzarek, Ron"Pig Pen" McKernan, Blind Willie McTell, Steve Miller, Mitch Mitchell, Keb' Mo', Maria Muldaur, Charlie Musselwhite, Jimmy Page, Joe Perry, Wilson Pickett, Robert Plant, Elvis Presley, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Bonnie Raitt, Noel Redding, Otis Redding, Rolling Stones, Paul A. Rothchild, Carlos Santana, Dave Van Ronk, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Bob Weir, Jerry Wexler, Sonny Boy Williamson (II), Johnny Winter, Howlin' Wolf, ZZ Top Read transcript of this episode (PDF): Episode 9 Transcript (Adobe Acrobat PDF) » Read transcript of this episode (HTML): | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Producer's Notes Episode 9: Bring it on Home “Psychedelic” and “Blues” are strange bedfellows but they had a freaky kind of tryst when they met in San Francisco, 1967. Guys who knew what it meant to plow a cotton field for 50 cents a day came to the land of Patchouli oil and LSD. Players who cut their teeth in Chicago, like Charlie Musselwhite and Elvin Bishop, told us that when they came to play the lucrative West Coast scene dressed in dark suits with their hair slicked back, there was an immediate culture clash with the hippies draped in jewelry and tie-die. And it was not just the fashions. Steve Miller remembers arriving from the tightly competitive Chicago music scene to the Fillmore West, seeing the Grateful Dead tune up for 30 minutes while Jerry Garcia mingled in the audience. “It was pretty groovy, but musically it was a completely different world.” Indeed, in researching the music of the era we found most “psychedelic blues” meant sustained guitar feedback over a bass thumping out 1-4-5 note progressions. All very groovy, man, but after listening to countless, unremarkable psychedelic bands for several days one cannot help but be awed afresh by what Jimi Hendrix did. It is almost a cliché to say it, but here it is: his blending of blues and psychedelia was a roaring, powerful achievement. While editing this episode down to the requisite 58 minutes/59 seconds, the executive producer, Ben Manilla, and I talked about which songs to play only a portion of, which songs to cut off early. “But,” he said, poking me in the chest, “You don’t touch Jimi.” Peter Crimmins
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Major funding for the radio series comes from Volkswagen. The Blues is a co-production of EMP Radio and Ben Manilla Productions, in association with WGBH Radio, Boston. Produced by Peter Crimmins and Matt Bauer. Executive Producers: Robert Santelli and Ben Manilla. Executive in charge for WGBH Radio: Robert Lyons. |
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 Ten Things to Help You Become a Better Blues Musician, by Don Mock |
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 Sweet Home Chicago: Big City Blues 1946-1966 Excello Records and the Swamp Blues 2003 W.C. Handy Blues Awards Weekend (Feature Article) The British Blues A Once-in-a-Lifetime Lineup Salutes the Blues Memphis: A Century of the Blues Clarksdale: Delta Blues Past and Present The Piedmont Blues: Alive and Well in D.C. Q&A with Peter Guralnick Don Robey and Duke-Peacock Records Celebrating the Year of the Blues |
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