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Thread #42591   Message #2188726
Posted By: Azizi
07-Nov-07 - 11:26 PM
Thread Name: anyone want to help me? (blues info)
Subject: RE: anyone want to help me? (blues info)
Here's a GREAT resource for Blues songs:

Uncensored History of the Blues
http://www.purplebeech.com/blues/ Delta Blues Museum

A discussion of the Uncensored History of the Blues podcast
[compiled by Mike Rugel from 9/22/2005 to October 09, 2007] has the following 30 subjects with song examples and some written commentary:

Show 30 - Prison Blues

Show 29 - Dealing with the Law

Show 28 - Weird Lyrics

Show 27 - Policy Blues {Policy=the lottery}

Show 26 - John Henry

Show 25 - Yellow, Brown, or Black {songs about Black people's skin color}

Show 24 - Hard Times Blues

Show 23 - Black Snake Moan
{songs about black snakes}

Show 22 - Henry Townsend Appreciation

Show 21 - What the Chinaman Told the Jew {Songs about other ethnic groups and minorities}

Show 20 - Death Tributes

Show 19- Bootlegger's Blues

Show 18 - Joe Louis is the Man {songs about Heavy Weight boxing champion Joe Louis}

Show 17 - Northbound Blues

Show 16 - New Music for 75 Years Ago { Songs from The Stuff That Dreams are Made Of:}

Show 15 - Blues of the Great War

Show 14 - Bonus Blues {songs about efforts to receive bonus pay that was promised to soldiers who fought in the First World War}

Show 13 - Dealing with the Devil {songs about selling your soul to the devil}

Show 12 - Living in a Violent World

Show 11 - Church Blues

Show 10 - Virginia Blues Road Trip {Blues songs about Virginia}

Show 9 -Big Fat Mama Blues

Show 8 - Common Ground: Early Recorded Blues and Country

Show 7 - Inadequacy Blues

Show 6 - High Water: Songs of the Mississippi Flood of 1927

Show 5 - Drinking Canned Heat and Jake

Show 4 - Dirty Blues {Blues For Mature Audiences}

Show 3 - Lesbian Blues

Show 2 – Poker Blues

Show 1 - Cocaine Blues