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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

John Lee Hooker & James Watkins - We Gonna Make Everything Alright youtu.be/Hv1e5y30SOs?... Recorded 1949 Released 1990 on the comp album John Lee Hooker - Boogie Awhile

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We Gonna Make Everything Alright

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Carolina Slim - Come Back Baby youtu.be/5HoaoH3UFbg?... 1951 single for Acorn Records

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Carolina Slim, Come back baby

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Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Blues musician George “Harmonica” Smith died October 2, 1983. Born at Helena, Arkansas. Worked with Big Mama Thornton, Muddy Waters and others. youtu.be/YLlnqtP9jqQ?...

George "Harmonica" Smith
Born: April 22, 1924, Helena, Arkansas Died: October 2, 1983, Los Angeles
Instruments: Harmonica
Smith spent two brief stints (1954 and 1966/67) in the Muddy Waters band. He worked as a leader and sideman, in Chicago and Kansas City before moving to California in the fifties. On his own, Smith recorded for RPM, J&M, Sotoplay, Mercury, BluesWay, Vanguard, and other labels. He worked as a sideman on recordings by Otis Spann, Jack Dupree, Mama Thornton, and Eddie Taylor. Smith continued to tour internationally until his death from heart disease. He spent his later years working with young musicians.
One was particularly impacted by Smith; Rod Piazza has written a tribute song for the Helena native.

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Kilborn Alley Blues Band @kilbornalley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oops--1 to 3p US Central (Chicago) Time!

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Buddy Moss - Bye Bye Mama youtu.be/uIs6zx0LX_w?... 1933 single for Banner records

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Bye Bye Mama

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fred McDowell - Left My Baby Standing youtu.be/Abt9yLBuDk0?... 1962 Dick Spottswood field recording Released 1982 on the album Mississippi Fred McDowell - 1962 - His First Recordings Following Discovery

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Mississippi Fred McDowell - Left My Baby Standing

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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Evil Devil Blues - Johnnie Temple youtu.be/R_rVb6chK8o 'Recorded by Johnnie Temple in 1935, This song is an adaption of Skip James's "Devil Got My Woman".'

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The Evil Devil Blues

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Jill Loves Jazz @jilllovesjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#JazzSky #Jazz #Musicsky Join me for #JazzLunch Fri 02 Nov 12-2pm 🎺 5MBS 99.9FM 📻Adelaide ~Streaming stream01.sigile.net/5mbs-128-mp3 ~’Play on Demand’ 5mbs.com #Jazzmusic incl #Herbie #WycliffeGordon & #ColemanHawkins - here’s the Hawk w Red Garland Trio youtu.be/bYScEdwQabI

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Red Beans - Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

. 😎 Southern Crossroads Wednesday 1000-to-Noon on Two Harbors Community Radio 99.5 FM or stream at KTWH.org. Zak takes us thru the cotton fields and mangrove swamps shaping southern culture and the music we know as the Blues. #CommunityRadio #Blues

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lightnin' Slim & Wild Bill Phillips - You Did Me Wrong Baby youtu.be/4qYfs5PsBFE?... Recorded 1954 for Feature records Released 1976 on the album Lightning Slim The Early Years The Legendary Jay Miller Sessions Volume 5

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Lightnin' Slim, You did me wrong baby

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Baby Tate - My Baby Don't Treat Me Kind youtu.be/aHwTPII7108?... 1961 Samuel Charters field recording Released 1963 on his album The Blues Of Baby Tate: See What You Done Done

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My Baby Don't Treat Me Kind

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Robert Shaw - Put Me In The Alley youtu.be/AT29yrNudBg?... 1963 Mack McCormick field recording Released 1966 in the album Robert Shaw - Texas Barrelhouse Piano

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Put Me in the Alley

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Kilborn Alley Blues Band @kilbornalley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

KILBORN ALLEY SHOW THIS SATURDAY EVENING, 3 OCTOBER AT THE AMAZING ROSE BOWL IN URBANA, IL!, MUSIC 8-11. This will be a BLAST. *****a few seconds of a very long vocal jam with the amazing gospel star Bryan Andrew Wilson!***** www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIz_...

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Kilborn Alley Featuring Bryan Andrew Wilson - All in This Together (Official Tease)

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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lazy Lester - I'm Your Breadmaker, Baby youtu.be/-AVL0UXS_YQ 'Lazy Lester (aka Leslie Johnson) has been called a "National Treasure," the "High Sheriff of Louisiana" and "a nut." As one of the key creators of the South Louisiana swamp blues sound in the 1950s, Lester has been often imitated but...

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Lazy Lester - I'm Your Breadmaker, Baby

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Champion Jack Dupree - Sleeping In The Street youtu.be/97WYi7ukRUE?... From his 1964 album I'm Growing Older Every Day

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Sleeping In The Street

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Joe Cooper - She Put Me Out On The Road youtu.be/zy6otKr-MGQ?... 1980 Siegfried A Christmann field recording Released 1981 on the various album Blues On Highway 61

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She Put Me Out On the Road

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Arthur Big Boy Crudup - Sunny Road youtu.be/dc36vvh4qCo?... Recorded 1969 Released 2013 on the album Arthur Big Boy Crudup with Jimmy Dawkins & Willie Big Eyes Smith - Sunny Road

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Sunny Road

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Snooks Eaglin - That's All Right youtu.be/ZmI-1Txn0-4?... 1958 Harry Oster field recording From his 1959 album Possum Up A Simmon Tree

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That's All Right

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In case you missed last week at The Blues List:

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Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Arkansas blues great Cedell Davis (b. 1926/Helena) died September 27, 2017. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/elli...

Cedell Davis “the horror of it all” album

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Joel Dilley @okiedharmabum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Does my heart glad to see fife and drum music still being played!

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Charley Sangster - Dreamed Eyes Woman youtu.be/r2KZ5C2aKyM?... 1978 Gianni Marcucci field recording Released 1980 on the various album I Got The Blues This Morning

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Dreamed Eyes Woman

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

R.L Burnside - Nightmare Blues youtu.be/BhrvEdudv6U?... From his 1984 album Mississippi Blues

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Nightmare Blues

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lonesome Sundown - I Woke Up Cryin' (Oh What A Dream) youtu.be/z94lKikv90E?... 1962 single for Excello records

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I Woke Up Crying (Oh What A Dream)

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Jerry Mitchell @jmitchellnews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#OnThisDay in 1912, W.C. Handy, “Father of the Blues,” published “Memphis Blues,” the 1st hit blues song, after hearing a Mississippi man “crooning all of his calls in the key of G, moaning like a presiding elder preaching at a revival meeting.” It was the blues. mississippitoday.org/2023/09/27/1...

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1912: W.C. Handy publishes 'Memphis Blues' - Mississippi Today

On this day in 1912, “Father of the Blues” W.C. Handy published “Memphis Blues,” believed to be the first commercially successful blues song.

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furlight @jazzagemusic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

❤️ REST IN PEACE BESSIE SMITH ❤️ onthisdayinjazzagemusic.substack.com/p/rest-in-pe...

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❤️ REST IN PEACE BESSIE SMITH ❤️

(April 15, 1892 – September 26, 1937)

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Crying Sam Collins - Dark Cloudy Blues youtu.be/2d6grvPdmDQ?... 1927 single for Gennett records

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Dark Cloudy Blues

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sylvester Cotton - Stormy Weather Blues youtu.be/MAovgR1-rsQ?... Recorded 1948 for Sensation records Released 1984 on the album Sylvester Cotton - I Tried 1948-1949 Detroit Blues Volume 1

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Stormy Weather Blues

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

James Cotton - Blow Wind youtu.be/9Czo_LyE3uk?... Live at Antone's Night Club Austin Texas July 1987 Released 1988 on his album Recorded Live At Antone's Night Club

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Blow Wind (Live)

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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Lectric Chair Blues · Blind Lemon Jefferson youtu.be/isQuHd_0eN0 Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929)

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Red sky at night.... Greyhounds are a delight.. (Adopt one or two and find out)

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Memphis Minnie & Little Son Joe - Black Widow Stinger youtu.be/SafYeNATwDk?... 1939 single for Vocalion records

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Black Widow Stinger

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

George & Ethel McCoy - Meningitis Blues youtu.be/pRoAiDvZuxY?... 1969 Gene Rosenthal field recording From their 1969 album Early In The Morning

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Down-Home Blues: GEORGE & ETHEL McCOY - Meningitis Blues (1969)

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Big Joe Williams - Sugar Diabetes Blues youtu.be/WVIO9yjKvzc?... 1971 Chris Strachwitz field recording Released 1999 on the album Big Joe Williams And Friends, Going Back To Crawford

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Big Joe Williams Sugar Diabetes Blues

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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

. 😎 Southern Crossroads Blues, 1000-to-Noon on Two Harbors Community Radio 99.5 FM or stream at KTWH.org. Zak sets a path thru the cotton fields and mangrove swamps shaping Southern Culture and the music we know as the Blues. #CommunityRadio. #Blues #Music

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks to those of you who left me some kind words...appreciated. Tough weekend..I just need a few days. But in case you missed this week at The Blues List:

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Robert Pete Williams - Motherless Child youtu.be/zopb9bgPZbk?... Recorded live at Lake Forest College February 14th 1965 Released 2004 on the album Robert Pete Williams Long Ol' Way From Home: The Chicago Sessions

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Motherless Child

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(Just found out my father passed away) Muddy Waters - Standin 'Round Crying youtu.be/gZhParD_yCI?... From his 1969 album - Fathers And Sons

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Standin' Round Cryin'

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just found out..3 years later.. sorry.. Andy Downing..my first inspiration....thanks for the beautiful wooden Premier Oyster Shell snare drum....rip..

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Big Jack Reynolds - She Must Be A Millionaire youtu.be/CPOZnkLtCCc?... From his 1986 album Two Aces And A Jack Hot As You Got

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She Must Be A Millionaire

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Arthur Weston - Stack O’ Dollars youtu.be/MfWusw9CMMQ?... Recorded 1967 Unreleased until 1997 on the album Arthur Weston Pea Vine Whistle

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Stack O' Dollars

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Kilborn Alley Blues Band @kilbornalley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thursday! Must be CRYSTAL BLUES coming to you on-line. Starts at 1pm Chicago-time, goes to 3. Listen at crystalfm.co.uk!

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Blind Joe Reynolds - Ninety Nine Blues youtu.be/0TqgKnBuLFk?... 1930 single for Paramount records

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Blind Joe Reynolds - Ninety nine blues

YouTube video by Devil Blues Man

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Blind Blake - One Time Blues youtu.be/dyXEy02-y60?... 1927 single for Paramount records

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One Time Blues

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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rosa Lee Hill, 1967, the year before she died, in Senatobia, Mississippi (In this photo, she is at Ada Mae Anderson's house.) Photo © George Mitchell Rosa Lee Hill - Roll And Tumble youtu.be/_asE8v-Ls60 Rosa Lee Hill (September 25, 1910 – October 22, 1968)

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Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Arkansas-born blues musician “Drifting Slim” (Elmon Mickle/born 1919 at Keo) died September 15, 1977. He’s featured on the Arkansas blues compilation album pictured below. youtu.be/4mOAnKwNaqA?...

Black & white pic of Slim playing as a one man band from the compilation liner notes

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rifting Slim (Elmon Mickle) was born February 24, 1919 in Keo, Arkansas. Slim's musical mentor was John Lee "Sonny Boy"
Williamson, whose influence has always pervaded Slim's style. Until he moved to California in 1957, he lived and played in the Little Rock area, at times broadcasting on stations KDRK and KGHI.
At the time these recordings were made, Slim was the leader of a band consisting of Jr. Brooks, Sunny Blair, Baby Face Turner and Bill Russell.
When Joe Bihari recorded the group in a North Little Rock music store, all the members save Russell did their own numbers.
Since living in Los
Angeles, Slim has recorded for the Elko, EM, Kent, Wonder and Audio Blues labels, making some of the most "down home" records in recent years. In recent years he has taken to playing as a one man band, playing harmonica, guitar and drums. Due to his failing health, some of Slim's more recent records don't really do him justice. Slim, in addition to being a good bluesman, is an excellent storyteller, a fact which is attested to by some fine cuts on his LP for Milestone (93004). The recordings heard here are of Drifting Slim and his band at their prime. Their music is not as polished as that of Muddy's or Little Walter's, but nonetheless powerful for its exuberance
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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

K.C Douglas - My Mind's Going Back To 1929 youtu.be/FKV99Xo3PsE?... From his 1974 album - The Country Boy

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My Mind's Going Back to 1929

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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Frank Frost - Five Long Years youtu.be/gcwFMgPnl2Q?si… Recorded 1966 for Jewel Records

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Five Long Years

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