Richard Polenberg DJ
Professor Polenberg of the History Department takes us on a musical journey through the history of the blues, jazz, and related genres.
The George Mitchell Blues Collection
Key to the Highway, Big Bill Broonzy
Mail Man Blues, Sleepy John Estes
Good Morning Judge, Furry Lewis
Blue Shadow Falling, Buddy Moss
Prison Bound, Big Joe Williams
I Want to be Ready, Jessie Mae Hemphill
Just Like a Bird Without a Feather, R.L. Burnside
Bumble Bee, Othar Turner
Cool Water Blues, Houston Stackhouse
Canned Heat, Robert Nighthawk
Country Blues, Joe Callicot
That’s the Way the Good Thing Go, Precious Bryant
Woke Up This Morning, Cliff Scott
My Three Women, Lonzie Thomas
Key to the Highwaym, Sonny Terry
Buddy Guy
Key to the Highway, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells
This is the End, Buddy Guy
First Time I Met the Blues, Buddy Guy
Mary Had a Little Lamb, Buddy Guy
I’m in the Mood, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells
Don’t Leave Me, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells
My Home’s in the Delta, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells
Done Got Old, Buddy Guy
It’s a Jungle Out There, Buddy Guy
Lonesome Home Blues, Buddy Guy
Hard Time Killing Floor, Buddy Guy
Black Cat Blues, Buddy Guy
Who’s Gonna Fill These Shoes?, Buddy Guy
Skin Deep, Buddy Guy
Out in the Woods, Buddy Guy
Mississippi John Hurt
Key to the Highway, Mance Lipscomb
Frankie, Mississippi John Hurt
Nobody’s Dirty Business, Mississippi John Hurt
Louis Collins, Mississippi John Hurt
Avalon Blues, Mississippi John Hurt
Spike Driver Blues, Mississippi John Hurt
Taking Casey Jones, Mississippi John Hurt
Got the Blues That Can’t be Satisfied, Mississippi John Hurt
Angels Laid Him Away, Lucinda Williams
My Creole Belle, Taj Mahal
Beulah Land, Gillian Welch
Requiem for Mississippi John Hurt, John Fahey
Did You Hear John Hurt, Tom Paxton
Monday Morning Blues, Mississippi John Hurt
Cassandra Wilson
Key to the Highway, Big Bill Broonzy
I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom, Robert Johnson
Dust My Broom, Cassandra Wilson
Come on in My Kitchen, Cassandra Wilson
Hellhound on My Trail, Cassandra Wilson
Death Letter, Cassandra Wilson
Strange Fruit, Cassandra Wilson
Red River Valley, Cassandra Wilson
Tennessee Waltz, Cassandra Wilson
You Gotta Move, Cassandra Wilson
Honey Bee, Cassandra Wilson
Vietnam Blues, Cassandra Wilson
Lily May Ledford and the Coon Creek Girls
John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, Key to the Highway
Coon Creek Girls, Banjo Pickin Girl
Coon Creek Girls, Sowing on the Mountain
Coon Creek Girls, Little Birdie
Coon Creek Girls, Flowers Blooming in the Wildwood
Coon Creek Girls, Pretty Polly
Lily May Ledford, How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?
Lily My Ledford & Pete Seeger, Deliver the Goods
Lily My Ledford & Pete Seeger, Sugar Babe
Lily May Ledford, East Virginia Blues
Lily May Ledford, Gypsy Davy
Lily May Ledford, Red Rocking Chair
Lily May Ledford, Little Birdie
Lily May Ledford, John Henry
Lily May Ledford, The Brown Girl
Lily May Ledford, Banjo Pickin Girl
The Titanic: When That Great Ship Went Down
Bill Jackson, Key to the Highway
Joseph Rosenblatt, El Mole Rachmim: fur Titanik
Ernest Stoneman, The Titanic
Virginia Liston, Titanic Blues
Jimmy Tarlton, After the Sinking of the Titanic
Blind Willie Johnson, God Moves on the Water
K. M. Williams, God Moves on the Water
Dorsey Dixon, Down with the Old Canoe
Leadbelly, The Titanic
Bill Jackson, Titanic Blues
Mance Lipscomb, God Moves on the Water
Howard Crockett, The Great Titanic
A. L. Phipps, The Great Titanic
Spider John Koerner, The Titanic
Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music
Clifton Chenier, Key to the Highway
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, White House Blues
Carter Family, Engine 143
Walter E. “Furry” Lewis, Kassie Jones
The Bentley Boys, Down on Penny’s Farm
Carolina Tar Heels, Farm Land Blues
Breaus Freres, Home Sweet Home
Memphis Sanctified Singers, He Got Better Things to Do
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Dry Bones
Blind Willie Johnson, John the Revelator
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Two White Horses
Julius Daniels, 99 Year Blues
Sleepy John Estes, Expressman Blues
Ramblin’ Thomas, Poor Boy Blues
Henry “Ragtime Texas” Thomas, Fishing Blues
Dinah Washington: Back to the Blues
Dinah Washington, Key to the Highway
Dinah Washington, Evil Gal Blues
Dinah Washington, Salty Papa Blues
Dinah Washington, Pacific Coast Blues
Dinah Washington, Blues for a Day
Dinah Washington, Long John Blues
Dinah Washington, Trouble in Mind
Bessie Smith, Backwater Blues
Dinah Washington, Backwater Bues
Bessie Smith, Jailhouse Blues
Dinah Washington, Jailhouse Bues
Dinah Washington, Careless Love
Dinah Washington, The Blues Ain’t Nothin’ But a Woman Cryin for her Man
Dinah Washington, You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon
Dinah Washington, Me and My Gin
Gypsy Jazz: The Life, Music, and Legacy of Django Reinhardt
Jean-Jacques Goldman, Key to the Highway
Louis Armstrong, Indian Cradle Song
Jean Sablon, Le jour ou je te vis
Dhango Reinhardt, I Saw Stars
Dhango Reinhardt, I’m Confessin’ (that I love you)
Dhango Reinhardt, Dinah
Dhango Reinhardt, Ultrafox
Dhango Reinhardt, Djangology
Dhango Reinhardt, Honeysuckle Rose
Dhango Reinhardt, Improvisation
Dhango Reinhardt, Bolero
Dhango Reinhardt, Nuages
Dhango Reinhardt, Les yeux noirs
Dhango Reinhardt, Ride, Red,Rid
Dhango Reinhardt, Porto Cabello
Dhango Reinhardt, Anouman
“That’s My Story:” The Music of John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker, Key to the Highway
John Lee Hooker, Boogie Chillen
John Lee Hooker, Sally Mae
John Lee Hooker, I’m in the Mood
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, I’m in the Mood
John Lee Hooker, Maudie
John Lee Hooker, Tupelo
John Lee Hooker, Boom Boom
John Lee Hooker, This Land is Nobody’s Land
John Lee Hooker, Birmingham Blues
John Lee Hooker, It Serves Me Right to Suffer
John Lee Hooker, The Motor City is Burning
John Lee Hooker, Never Get Out of these Blues Alive
John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana, The Healer
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