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Edition #8: Floods, Levees, and R. L. Burnside in Memoriam |
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SONIC ADVENTURES -
Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone
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R. L. Burnside
died on Sep. 1 at the age of 78.
Playlist
01 Brownie Ford - Banks of the Old Pontchartrain (3:09)
Stories from Mountains, Swamps, and Honky-Tonks (Flying Fish/Louisiana Folklife
Series)
02 - 05 are songs of the 1927 Mississippi flood:
02 Charlie Patton - High Water Everywhere (3:00)
Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues (Revenant)
03 Lonnie Johnson - Flood Water Blues (2:40)
The Blues of Lonnie Johnson (Swaggie)
04 Roscoe Holcomb - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (2:13)
Untamed Sense of Control (Smithsonian Folkways)
05 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Rising High Water Blues
Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 2, 1927 (Document)
06 Charlie Spand - Levee Man Blues (2:20)
Boogie Woogie Rarities (Milestone)
07 Walter Brown - Levee Camp Holler (2:39)
Living County Blues (Evidence)
08 Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks
Blues Classics by Memphis Minnie (Blues Classics)
09 R. L. Burnside - Poor Boy Blues (3:10)
My Black Name A Ringin' (Blues Vault/Genes)
First recordings from 1969.
10 R. L. Burnside - Hard Time Killing Floor (5:08)
Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (Fat Possum)
11 Skip James - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (2:50)
Skip James 1931 (Document)
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 February 2008 )
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