Show 39 - Mississippi John Hurt.

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Show 36 - Sonny Boy Williamson II Part 2 - We continue to pay homage to Alec Miller or Sonny Boy Williamson.

Last week I talked about Sonny Boy’s early years in the South, meeting and learning from bluesmen like Robert Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf. His career took a leap forward in 1949 when he moved to West Memphis and scored a regular gig on Radio KWEM and lived wth Wolf. Sonny Boy brought some of his blues acquaintances to his radio show, names like Elmore James, Robert Nightyhawk and Arthur Big Boy Crudup. And he began his recording career with Trumpet Records. This in turn brought Sonny Boy to Chicago as the Chess Brothers bought the remnants of Trumpet’s library when they went broke.

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Show 35 - Sonny Boy Williamson II Part 1 - This is Episode thirty five, the first of two programmes dedicated to the harp player who called himself Sonny Boy Williamson, although his given name was Alec Miller, and he borrowed the name from John Lee Williamson, who recorded prolifically in the early 1940’s as Sonny Boy Williamson.

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Show 32 - Howlin Wolf (Chester Burnett) - Part 1.

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Show 31 - Charley Patton.

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