Hey! Hey!

That’s what the

Blues singers say.

Singing minor melodies

They laugh,

Hey! Hey!

from "Blues Fantasy" by Langston Hughes, 1926

maybe it's a song six centuries old. maybe it's a poem only ninety-nine years young. maybe it's the croaking of a bird whose species has been crowing that same call for seventeen million years. perhaps the wurlitzer organ-made calls of birds which never existed. maybe it's a song caught on yesterday's breeze, sung sweetly, freshly now, in this present moment. or maybe, still, it is a language you do not speak but the words of which you still understand. the feeling. that, that is the blues. the folk. the country. the MUSIC. so let's say HEY! HEY! and join the unfolding chorus. there's a spot right near the front, just for you! we've been waiting eagerly for your voice to join ours.

Playlist:

• Martyn Bennett - Chanter
• Chris Watson - Embleton Rookery
• Snakes In Exile - Caledonia
• Mon Laferte - Pa' Donde So Fue
• The Bridge City Sinners - St. James Infirmary
• Blue Moon Marquee - Saint James Infirmary
• K. C. Douglas - I Met The Blues This Morning
• Robert Seer - Gratitude
• Greg Block - Faerie Dance
• Sonny Terry, featuring Johnny Winter, Willie Dixon - Sonny's Whoopin' The Doop
• Tebby & The Heavy - Razzle Dazzle
• Barbara - Bizarre - Live Au Zenith Du Paris - 1986
• Ally Fiola & The Next Quest, featuring Jeff Coffin - Thoughts of Home
• Friendly Rich - Birds 40-76
• Sister L. Brown & The Congregation of Morning Star Baptist Church, New Orleans, Louisiana - Before This Time, Another Year
• Margo Price - Wild At Heart
• Anastasia DesRoches - Millie's Waltz
• Cheryl Hann-Woodlock - Would I Change Anything
• Edward Enman - Looking Out The Window At The Sky
• Johnny O'Neal - Come Sunday
• Harry Somers - Feller From Fortune
• Pecker Dunne - Ballybunion By The Sea
• Unknown Female Singer - Song To Orisha Oko
• Albro T. Gaul - Bumblebee (Two Toned Flight)
• Jennifer Higdon, featuring Charles Abramovic, Eric Stomberg, Lawrence Stomberg, Timothy Schwarz - Dark Wood