Al compas del mundo – programa No.61

Al compas del mundo – programa No.61 - The original blues

It’s blues time again on El compas del mundo. And were going back to some of the forefathers, those that could be caught on vinyl. Bringing to Mexico and the streaming world all the gravel-voiced hootin’ ‘n hollerin’, jumpin’ ‘n jivin’, shimmyin’ and shakin’…though mostly painful recollections of how things have been, are, and always will be moving forward, world without end, amen. -J.H.

The hearing and speech impaired begin to talk.

AL COMPAS DEL MUNDO – programa #61, was first broadcast on Radioactiva.TX on 1-19-22

The original blues - USA Play List

01 Cat-Iron - Poor Boy a Long, Long Way from Home

02 anonymous - Little Red Rooster

03 Pattman - Low Down Blues

04 Peg Leg Howell - Skin Game Blues

05 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Big Fat Mama

06 James 'Son Ford' Thomas - 44 Blues

07 Robert Wilkins - I'll Go with Her Blues

08 Scott Dunbar - Lil' Liza Jane

09 Lovey Williams - I Feel So Good

10 Pink Anderson - Boll Weevil

11 Sam Myers - Eyesight to the Blind

12 Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues

13 Blind Bogus Ben Covington - Mule Skinner Moan

14 Sonny Boy Watson - Have You Seen My Baby

15 Frank Stokes - What's the Matter Blues

16 Wash Heron and Big Jack Johnson - Nothing

17 George Lee 'Sun Bud' Spears - I Ain't Gonna Live It No More

18 Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues

Keeps everything in the barnyard upset - since 1928

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