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Playlist for The Name of This Show is Elliot on WPRB with Elliot (sub for Sonny Boy Williamson III), August 22nd, 2020

Aired 12-3PM

Bo Diddley – Pretty Thing – Chess Box

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Mamie Smith – Crazy Blues – Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1

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Blind Roosevelt Graves – Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind on Jesus) – Complete Recorded Works (1926-1936)

Danny Overbea – Forty Cups of Coffee – Plug It In! Turn It Up! Electric Blues: The Definitive Collection! Part 1 Beginnings 1939-1954

Fern Jones – Strange Things are Happening Every Day – An Alternative History of Popular Music

Leroy Carr – Blues Before Sunrise – Whiskey Is My Habit, Good Women Is All I Crave: The Best Of Leroy Carr

Bumble Bee Slim – The Death of Leroy Carr – Complete Recorded Work, Vol. 4 (1935)

White Family of Savannah, GA – I’ve Been in the Storm so Long – In the Storm so Long

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Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer – Strange Angels – Strange Angels: In Flight with Elmore Jones

Bobby Rush – I Don’t Want Nobody Hanging Around – Porcupine Meat

Solomon Burke – None of Us are Free – Don’t Give Up on Me

Leo Bud Welch – Right on Time – The Angels in Heaven Done Signed My Name

Jimmy Duck Holmes – Gonna Get Old Someday – Cypress Grove

Johnny Guitar Watson – I Don’t Want to be President – The Funk Anthology

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Pope’s Arkansas Mountaineers – George Washington – The Story that the Crow Told Me, Volume 1

Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers – White House Blues – Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 1: Ballads

Sonny Terry – The Red Cross Store – Complete Recordings 1938-1945 in Chronological Order

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Buster ‘Buzz’ Ezell – Roosevelt and Hitler (Part 1) – Field Recordings – Vol. 2: North & South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee & Arkansas (1926-1943)

Champion Jack Dupree – God Bless Our New President – Blues Legends

J.B. Lenoir – Eisenhower Blues – Martin Scorcese Presents the Blues: J.B. Lenoir

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Son House – President Kennedy – Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions

Sleepy John Estes – Blues for JFK – Sleepy John Estes in Europe

King Solomon – Please Mr. President – Dirty Work Going On: Kent & Modern Records – Blues into the 60s, Vol. 1

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The Southern Bells – Viet Nam – …Next Stop Vietnam: The War on Record

Howlin’ Wolf – Watergate Blues – The Back Door Wolf

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Big Mama Thornton – Watermelon Man – The Way It Is

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Brother Theotis Taylor – Somebody’s Gone – Brother Theotis Taylor

Big Maybelle – Ocean of Tears – The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-55

Elvie Thomas – Motherless Child Blues – American Primitive, Vol. 2: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939)

Tommy Johnson – Bye-Bye Blues – Canned Heat: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order (1928 – 1929)

Washington Phillips – A Mother’s Last Word to her Daughter – Storefront and Streetcorner Gospel

Abner Jay – Woke Up This Morning – True Story of Abner Jay

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Abner Jay – Vietnam – True Story of Abner Jay

Alan Lomax – I’m Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows – Texas Folk Songs

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Hermes Nye – The Devil Made Texas – Texas Folk Song

Texas Alexander – Levee Camp Moan Blues – Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1927-1928)

Phineas Rockmore – Traveling Man – Deep River of Song: Black Texicans, Balladeers & Songsters of the Texas Frontier

Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie – Goin’ Back to Texas – Volume 1

Zuzu Bollin – Why Don’t You Eat Where You Slept Last Night – Boogie Uproar, Texas Blues and R&B (1947-54)

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Robert Lockwood – I’m Gonna Dig Myself a Hole – Mississippi Blues, Vol. 4

Jelly Roll Anderson – Good Time Blues – St. Louis 1927-1933

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Jesse Johnson – I Wish I Had Died in Egyptland Pt. 2 – St. Louis 1927-1933

Ell-Zee Floyd – Snow Bound & Blue – St. Louis 1927-1933

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John Cephas and Phil Wiggins – Dog Days of August – Classic Harmonica Blues