For Friday 1/10, listen to 1-4 of “Mid-western Blues Diaspora,” choose 5 from “Boogie Woogie and Jump Blues,” and 1-4 of “Country & Western and Rockabilly.” Listen to the remaining tracks before Monday, 1/13.
MID-WESTERN BLUES DIASPORA
Early Mid-western Artists
- Memphis Minnie’s I’m Not a Bad Girl, 1941
- Sister Rosetta Thorpe’s Don’t Take Everybody to Be Your Friend, 1946
Chicago Electric Blues - Muddy Waters’ (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man” 1954, Willie Dixon
- Howlin’ Wolf’s Moaning at Midnight (Transcribe the guitar and voice parts with rhythmic accuracy for at least one rhyming pair of phrases) 1962*
BOOGIE-WOOGIE and JUMP BLUES
- Louis Jordan’s Caldonia 1946, Darling/Horton/Gabler
- Louis Jordan’s Blue Light Boogie, 1949-1950
- Fats Domino’s The Fat Man, 1949
- Kay Starr’s Kay’s Lament, 1952, with “The Lancers”
- Ruth Brown’s Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean, 1953, Ruth Brown
- Big Joe Turner’s (Feb 1954) Shake, Rattle, and Roll 1953, Calhoun
- Etta James’ (The Wallflower:) “Dance With Me Henry (February 1955, Johnny Otis/Hank Ballard/Etta James)
- Little Richard’s Tutti Frutti (August 1955)
COUNTRY & WESTERN and ROCKABILLY
- Merle Travis 16 Tons 1946
- Hank Williams’ Hey, Good Lookin’ 1951
- Rufus Thomas, Guitar Red, & Joe Hill Louis, as recorded by Sam Philips, with honky-tonk inflected backing bands.
- Tenessee Ernie Ford 16 Tons 1955, Merle Travis
- Chuck Berry’s Maybellene 1955
- Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel 1956, Durden/Presley
- Buddy Holly’s That’ll Be the Day 1957
- Everly Brothers Wake Up Little Susie 1957