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BLUES FOR HOME AND HIGHWAYS: EDDIE COTTON, JR. & WILLIS ALAN RAMSEY
Jackson, Mississippi blues guitarist Eddie Cotton, Jr. takes time out from his performance at the 2019 National Folk Festival to talk to us about his gospel roots and his mission to bring Mississippi music to the world. Then we sit in on a live set from New Orleans’s Chickie Wah Wah with Texan songman Willis Alan Ramsey. Plus music from Robert Johnson, Lucinda Williams, Sister Rosetta Tharp and Willie Nelson.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Fair Weather Lover Eddie Cotton, Jr.
One at a Time, DeChamp - Up Above My Head Sister Rosetta Tharp
The Original Soul Sister, Proper - I Want a Tall Skinny Papa Rosetta Tharp with the Lucky Millender Orchestra
The Original Soul Sister, Proper - What's So Easy for Two Is Hard for One Mary Wells
Mary Wells Looking Back 1961-64, Motown - Everything But You Jamey Johnson, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill & Ray Price
Living for A Song: Tribute to Hank Cochran, Mercury - Raise Your Hand Eddie Floyd
Knock On Wood, Stax - You Keep Me Hanging On Bonnie & Sheila
Wardell Quezergue Strung Out: Malaco Sessions, Malaco - Instrumental: Last Night The Mar-Keys
The Last Night!, Atlantic - Tupelo (Pt.1) Albert King, Pops Staples & Steve Cropper
The Definitive Albert King, Stax - Spirit in This Place Prince Dixon and the Jackson Southernaires
Prince Dixon with the Jackson Southernaires, Malaco - Segment: Eddie Cotton, Jr.
Listen - Instrumental: Okie Dokie Stomp Gatemouth Brown
Blues Masters, Volume 3: Texas Blues, Rhino - My Home's in the Delta Buddy Guy and Jr. Wells
Buddy Guy and Jr. Wells – Alone and Acoustic, Alligator Records - Guitar in My Hand Gatemouth Brown
Texas Guitar Killers, Capitol - Blues Before Sunrise B.B. King
One Kind Favor, Geffen - Boogie Rock B.B. King
The Soul of B.B. King, Virgin - Travel On The Jackson Southernaires
Down Home, Malaco - Closing Bed: Time is Tight Booker T & the MGs
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol.2, 1968-1971, Stax
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Sympathy for a Train Willis Alan Ramsey
American Routes original recording from Chickie Wah Wah 2019, - Love in Vain Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson – The Complete Recordings, Columbia - This Train Staple Singers
Amen!, Epic - Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways - In the Jailhouse Now Leon Russell
Hank Wilson’s Back, Vol. 1, Capitol - Instrumental: Cherry Beat Leon Russell
Looking Back, Olympic Records - Painted Lady Willis Alan Ramsey
Willis Alan Ramsey, Koch - Honky Tonk Heroes Waylon Jennings
Honky Tonk Heroes, Sony - Well Well Well Lucinda Williams
Little Honey, UMG - Segment: Willis Alan Ramsey
Listen - Wishbone Willis Alan Ramsey
American Routes original recording from Chickie Wah Wah 2019, - Watermelon Man Willis Alan Ramsey
American Routes original recording from Chickie Wah Wah 2019, - Geraldine and the Honey Bee Willis Alan Ramsey
American Routes original recording from Chickie Wah Wah 2019, - Closing Bed: Sympathy for a Train Willis Alan Ramsey
American Routes original recording from Chickie Wah Wah 2019,
