The Music Show goes Deep Inside the Blues with photographer and writer Margo Cooper, who’s assembled a beautiful book of photographs and interviews with blues musicians from Chicago to the Mississippi Delta. She joins Andy on The Music Show to outline a sprawling, searching and ultimately living tradition, plus interviews with Blues legends from the Music Show archive.
Deep Inside the Blues is published by University Press of Mississippi.
Archive interviews heard in the show:
Cedric Burnside, 2016 and 2019
Billy Boy Arnold, 2006
Buddy Guy, 1996
Music heard in the show:
Title: Mannish BoyArtist: Muddy WatersAlbum: Hard AgainLabel: Blue Sky Records
Title: Messin’ with the KidArtist: Buddy Guy & Junior WellsAlbum: Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The BluesLabel: Rhino Records
Title: Hard TimesArtist: Cedric Burnside & Trenton AyersLive in The Music Show studio
Title: Damn Right I’ve Got the BluesArtist: Buddy GuyAlbum: Damn Right I’ve Got the BluesLabel: Silvertone
Title: Shake the BoogieArtist: Sonny Boy Williamson (I)Album: Million Years of Blues Vol. 4Label: Quadromania
Title: Born With ItArtist: Cedric Burnside ProjectAlbum: I Be TryingLabel: Single Lock Records
Title: The Blues Is Alive and WellArtist: Buddy GuyAlbum: The Blues Is Alive and WellLabel: Silvertone Records
Title: Bo DiddleyArtist: Bo DiddleyAlbum: single releaseLabel: Checker Records
Title: Whiskey, Beer and ReefaArtist: Billy Boy ArnoldLive on The Music Show from Wangaratta Jazz Festival
Title: We Made ItArtist: Cedric BurnsideAlbum: Benton County RelicLabel: Single Lock
The Music Show is made on Gadigal and Gundungurra Country.
Technical production by Isabella Tropiano.
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