Ruta 61

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; I'm A Woman / Hoochie Coochie Woman – Demetria Taylor; Walk On – Carolyn Wonderland; No Angels – Samantha Fish; New Mechanic (Patrick's Blues) – Deb Ryder; Six Nights And A Day – Annika Chambers; Wild About You Baby – Valerie Wellington; Got The Blues So Bad – Victoria Spivey; Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer – Bessie Smith; Sassy Mama – Big Mama Thornton; Come On In My Kitchen – Cassandra Wilson; Two-Fisted Mama – Katie Webster; You Can't Be Told – Valerie June; Motherless Children – Pura Fé; Workin' Woman Blues – Valerie June.

Tercer y último programa dedicado a las cantantes seleccionadas por Paco Espínola para los dos CDs incluidos en su libro-disco "Blues de Gas: Enciclopedia de las Mujeres y el Blues, 1920 - 2020." (Allanamiento de Mirada) Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Strange Things Happening Every Day – Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Penitentiary Blues – Bessie Tucker; I've Got Ford Engine Movements In My Hips – Cleo Gibson; Black and Evil Blues – Alice Moore; Coldest Stuff In Town – Hattie Hart; Press My Button (Ring My Bell) – Lil Johnson; Don't You Make Me High – Merline Johnson; Me and My Chauffeur Blues – Memphis Minnie; Why Don't You Do Right? – Lil Green; Decent Woman Blues – Julia Lee; Hound Dog – Big Mama Thornton; Wang Dang Doodle – Koko Taylor; Sinner's Prayer – Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa; Crazy Blues – China Moses; Crazy Blues – Mamie Smith.

El programa de esta semana es el segundo dedicado a las blueswomen seleccionadas por Paco Espínola para los dos CDs incluidos en su libro-disco "Blues de Gas: Enciclopedia de las Mujeres y el Blues, 1920 - 2020." Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Four Women – Nina Simone; Wild Women Don't Have the Blues – Ida Cox; My Soul Is A Witness For The Lord – Arizona Dranes; Black Snake Blues – Victoria Spivey; Trouble In Mind – Bertha "Chippie" Hill; Mistreated Blues – Katherine Baker; Nappy Headed Blues – Helen Humes; Alley Boogie – Lucille Bogan; You Let Me Down – Billie Holiday; You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now – Georgia White; Rock Me – Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Kitchen Blues – Martha Davis; Blues For Rex – Sarah McLawler; Nobody Loves A Fat Girl – Sophie Tucker; That's What Makes My Baby Fat – Faye Adams; White Trash Girl – Candye Kane; I'm In The Mood – Bonnie Raitt & John Lee Hooker.

Antes de que los bluemen entraran en los estudios de grabación lo hicieron las blueswomen, y hoy disfrutamos de 15 temas de los 46 incluidos en el libro-disco, "Blues de Gas - Enciclopedia de las Mujeres y el Blues, 1920 - 2020," de Paco Espínola y editado por Allanamiento de Mirada. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Down Hearted Blues – Alberta Hunter; Arkansas Blues – Lucille Hegamin; Crazy Blues – Mamie Smith; Down Home Blues – Ethel Waters; Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do – Sara Martin; Trixie's Blues – Trixie Smith; Bo-Weavil Blues – Ma Rainey; Jailhouse Blues – Bessie Smith; Shorty George Blues – Sippie Wallace; Bumble Bee Blues – Memphis Minnie; This Train – Sister Rosetta Tharpe; See See Rider Blues – Wee Bea Booze; I'm A Woman – Peggy Lee; Women Is Losers – Janis Joplin; Crawlin' King Snake – Etta James.

La gran Mavis Staples nació en Chicago en el seno de una familia que había emigrado a la Ciudad del Viento desde Mississippi. Mavis Staples es una de las máximas figuras de la música negra, tanto de góspel como de soul o blues. Hoy escuchamos a la Mavis Staples más blusera en temas de cinco de sus últimos álbumes: "We'll Never Turn Back," "You Are Not Alone," "One True Vine," "If All I Was Was Black," y "We Get By." Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; On My Way, This Little Light of Mine, Turn Me Around, Don't Knock, Downward Road, I Belong To the Band, Too Close / On My Way To Heaven, Last Train, Every Step, Sow Good Seeds, Who Told You That, No Time For Crying, Try Harder, Sometime, Stronger, Change – Mavis Staples.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; River Hip Mama – Charlie Musselwhite; Baby Will You Please Help Me, No More Lonely Nights, Cha Cha the Blues, Christo Redemptor, Help Me, Chicken Shack, Strange Land, 39th and Indiana, My Baby, Early in the Morning, 4 P.M., Sad Day – Charley (sic) Musselwhite's South Side Band; Blues Overtook Me - Charlie Musselwhite.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; One Kind Favor – John Hammond, The Blind Boys of Alabama; Jesus Gonna Be Here, No More, Run On For A Long Time, Good Religion, Give A Man A Home, Amazing Grace, Soldier, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Way Down In The Hole, Motherless Child, Just Wanna See His Face, The Last Time – The Blind Boys of Alabama; I Had Trouble – Charlie Musselwhite, The Blind Boys of Alabama.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Front Door Man, I Love the Blues – Dennis Jones; He Loves My Biscuits, Poor Robert Johnson – Liz Mandeville; I Need A Friend, Lightning Bolt, We're On the Road, San-Ho-Zay – Luther Allison; Rise Up – Shemekia Copeland; Hard Time Killing Floor – Pura Fe; She Makes Me Earn My Money – Watermelon Slim; Got My Mojo Working – Muddy Waters; Down By the Riverside – Mahalia Jackson.

En los Estados Unidos febrero es el Mes de la Historia Negra​. Aprovechamos el primer día de este mes especial para escuchar temas de algunas de las figuras más importantes de la música negra. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Run On For A Long Time – The Blind Boys of Alabama; Midnight Special, The Gallow's Pole, God's Gonna Cut You Down, Yonder Comes the Blues – Odetta; Soldier, Amazing Grace, Down By the Riverside, The Last Time – The Blind Boys of Alabama; Another Man Done Gone, Why Don't You Do Right, West End Blues – Carolina Chocolate Drops; A Little Bit, 99 and 1/2, Eyes On the Prize – Mavis Staples.

Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; We the People – Smiling Jack Smith; Another Year Gone, Southbound Train – Smiling Jack Smith & The New Panama Limited; Never Been To Memphis – Lee Wolfe, feat. Maraya Zydeco; Illinois Blues – Mr. Shingles; Wherever I Go – Steve Jordan; Little Suzie – Richard Ray Farrell; How Ya Doin', Wade In The Water – Jane Lee Hooker; I Love The Life I Live, Fattening Frogs For Snakes – James "Blood" Ulmer; Your Love, Is It Too Late – Patty Reese; Mr. Cool – Monica Dupont.