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  • Episode #30- “Disagreeable Situations, The Trouble With Whiskey, and Knockin' Around a Jug"

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    Sit back and enjoy an episode featuring some of my favorite records across a variety of records from the African American tradition. Just good records covering the blues, jazz, gospel and early rock n’ roll. Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. If you could be so kind, leave a review over at Apple podcasts as well as over at Spotify. Spotify has enabled a five star review system similar to Apple podcasts. Positive rankings sure do help the show. Also, go take a visit to the show's new website https://www.olddingyjukebox.com/home and have a look around. I appreciate the support.


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    1. Hokum Boys- “I Ain’t Goin’ That Way” Vocalion 1936
    2. Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra “Knockin’ A Jug” Okeh 1929
    3. Elmore James “Dust My Broom” Trumpet 1951
    4. Charlie Parker Quintet “Scrapple From The Apple” Dial 1948
    5. Ike Turner & His Kings Of Rhythm “Way Down Here” Modern 1954
    6. Mance Lipscomb “Where Did You Stay Last Night” Recorded in Berkeley California 1964 By Chris Strachwitz. Released on Arhoolie Records 1965
    7. Lowell Fulson “Mean Old Lonesome Song” Swing Time 1956
    8. Cab Calloway & His Orchestra “You Dog” 1931
    9. Jelly Roll Morton “Don’t Leave Me Here” General 1939
    10. John Lee “Down At The Depot” Unknown
    11. Art Landry’s Orchestra “Hugs and Kisses” Victor 1927
    12. Ellington, Mingus & Roach “Wig Wise” Recorded New York City 1962
    13. Lightning Hopkins “Whiskey Blues” Gold Star Sometime between 1947-49
    14. Walter Davis “Just Thinking” Bluebird 1940
    15. Johnny “Guitar” Watson “Ruben” RPM 1955
    16. Tiny Parham and his Musicians “Sud Buster’s Dream” Victor 1929



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    1 hr 17 min
  • Episode #29- “Fiddle Bust-downs, Fair Warnings and Gully Jumpers”

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    Episode #29. Just Good Records. “Fiddle Bustdowns, Fair Warnings and Gully Jumpers” Enjoy a nice selection of records across a variety of styles. Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. Also, go take a visit to the show's new website olddingyjukebox.com and have a look around. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show. 

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    1. Paul Warmack and his Gully Jumpers-”Robertson County” Victor 1929
    2. Johnny Shines-”Ride, Ride, Woman” Columbia 1946 Unissued Test
    3. The Johnson Family- “Precious Lord” George Mitchell Field Recording Skene Mississippi, July of 1969
    4. The Grant Brothers and Their Music- “Tell It To Me” Columbia 1928
    5. Coy Jackson- “Lookout Heart” Rimrock 1966
    6. The Vicksburg Blowers- “Twin Blues” Gennett 1927
    7. Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band w/ Sippie Wallace “Separation Blues” Mountain Railroad Records 1967
    8. D.L Menard & The Louisiana Aces “Lacassine Special” Rounder Records Recorded 1973 in DL’s Kitchen
    9. Blind Alfred Reed “How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?” Victor 1929
    10. Earl Hooker “Dust My Broom” Cuca 1967
    11. Ford & Grace “Hideaway” Okeh 1928
    12. Ocie Stockard and his Wanderers “Twin Guitar Polka” King 1947
    13. Fats Waller “Sweet & Low” RCA Victor 1935
    14. James “Thunderbird” Davis “Instrumental #4” George Mitchell Field Recording Mississippi 1960s
    15. Cliff Bruner & His Boys “Truck Driver’s BLues” Decca 1939
    16. Joke & The Jokers “I’ve Got The Time” Tennessee Records 1965
    17. Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers “Flyin’ Clouds” Columbia 1926



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    1 hr 17 min
  • Episode #28- "Reefer Headed Men, Puissant Manes and Crumbling Walls"

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    Episode #28. Good Records. Enjoy a nice selection of records across a variety of styles. Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. Also, go take a visit to the show's new website olddingyjukebox.com and have a look around. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show. “Reefer Headed Men, Puissant Manes and Crumbling Walls” 


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    1. Blind Willie Johnson “If I Had My Way, I’d Tear This Building Down” Vocalion 19127
    2. George & Earl “Done Gone” Mercury 1956
    3. Don Rafael y su Orquesta “Carioca” Vocalion 1930 
    4. McKinney’s Cotton Pickers “Beedle Um Bum” Bluebird 1929
    5. The Farmer Boys “Oh, How It Hurts” Capitol 1956
    6. North Carolina Hawaiians “Soldiers Joy” Okeh 1928
    7. Big Bill Broonzy “Match Box” 
    8. Lydia Mendoza “Piensa En Mi” Bluebird 1936
    9. Billie Morgan “Life To Live” Starday 1959
    10. Houston Stackhouse “Big Road Blues” George Mitchell Recordings, Dundee Mississippi, 1967
    11. El Ciego Melquiades Rodriguez “Jalisco Nunca Pierda Bluebird 1938
    12. Cab Calloway “Reefer Man” Brunswick 1932
    13. Byron Parker & His Mountaineers “Married Life Blues” Bluebird 1941
    14. Ukrainska Selska Orchestra “Polka Mazurka” Victor 1930
    15. Josh White “Paul & Silas Bound In Jail” Conqueror 1935
    16. Dixieland Jug Blowers “Memphis Shake” Victor 1927
    17. Blind Willie Johnson “Rail Don’t Fall On Me” Columbia 1929

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    1 hr 17 min
  • Episode #27- Folklorist Alan Lomax and his Southern Journey 1959-60

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    This episode examines the field recordings made by Alan Lomax during his 1959-60 visits to the American South collecting American vernacular music styles found in the region. Episode also includes a partial examination of the Lomax's recordings made for the Library of Congress including those of Leadbelly and Jelly Roll Morton.

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    1 hr 24 min
  • Episode #26- "Southbound Passenger Trains, Rye Whiskey and Blood Stained Banders"

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    Kick back and enjoy an episode featuring some of my favorite records across a variety of down home styles. Just good records. Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. If you could be so kind, leave a review over at Apple podcasts as well as over at Spotify. Spotify has enabled a five star review system similar to Apple podcasts. Positive rankings sure do help the show. Also, go take a visit to the show's website https://www.olddingyjukebox.com/home and have a look around. I appreciate the support.


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    1. West Virginia Coon Hunters “Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy” 1927
    2. Rosa Lee Hill “Bullying Well” Field Recording From The George Mitchell Collection Senatobia, Mississippi 1967
    3. Leake County Revelers “Wednesday Night Waltz” 1927
    4. Mike and Peggy Seeger “Blood Stained Banders” 2011
    5. Dixie Jubilee Choir “Southbound Passenger Train” 1928
    6. Johnny and Jonie Mosby “Ain’t You Ever” 1961
    7. Sylvester Weaver “Guitar Rag” 1927
    8. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys “Steel Guitar Rag” 1936
    9. Leon McAuliffe and his Western Swing Band “Tulsa, Straight Ahead” 1951
    10. Smokey Hogg and his Guitar “Low Down Woman” 1949
    11. Jilson Setters “Up On Clinch Mountain” 1928
    12. Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five “Reconversion Blues” 1946
    13. Johnny Sills “Walking Shoes” 1967
    14. Jessie May Hill and Congregation “Earth Is No Resting Place” 1927
    15. The Brewster Brothers and Four Brothers Quartet “I’ll Be In My Happy Home” 1959
    16. Texas Johnny Brown “Snakehips” 1961
    17. George Jones “Ragged But Right” 1956




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    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode #25 - "Groundhog Gravy, Bad Hearts and Drunkard’s Blues”

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    Sit back and enjoy an episode featuring some of my favorite records across a variety of down home styles. Just good records. Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. If you could be so kind, leave a review over at Apple podcasts as well as over at Spotify. Spotify has enabled a five star review system similar to Apple podcasts. Positive rankings sure do help the show. Also, go take a visit to the show's new website https://www.olddingyjukebox.com/home and have a look around. I appreciate the support.

    Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy this episode of the Old Ding Jukebox: “Groundhog Gravy, Bad Hearts and Drunkard’s Blues”

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    Big Joe Williams “Bad Heart Blues” 1952
    Georgia Serenaders “Raise A Ruckus Tonight” 1929
    The Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle “Solid Gone” 1953
    Bix Biederbecke “Wringin’ and Twistin’” 1935 (originally Okeh 1927)
    Chicago Sunny Boy “Western Union Man” (Joe Hill Louis) 1953
    Jack Reedy and his Walker Mountain String Band “Groundhog” 1928
    Jimmie Yancey “Old Quaker Blues” 1940
    Mose Coffman “Lost Indian” 1970 (Field Recording)
    Welling and McGhee “Sweeping Through The Gates” 1930
    Lefty Frizzell “Always Late” 1951
    Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys “Drunkard Blues” 1938
    Barbecue Bob “Barbecue Blues” 1927
    Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers “Sidewalk Blues” 1926
    Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee “Confusion” 1958 (Folkways)



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    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode #24 - "Black Cat Bones, Slouchy Partners and Fat Boogies"

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    Sit back and enjoy an episode featuring some of my favorite records across a variety of down home styles. Just good records. Please subscribe to the show if you haven't done so already and share with family and friends. If you could be so kind leave a review Apple podcasts…it sure does help the show. Also, go take a visit to the show's new website https://www.olddingyjukebox.com/home and have a look around. 

    Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy this episode of the Old Ding Jukebox: “Black Cat Bones, Slouchy Partners and Fat Boogies”

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    Maddox Brothers “Ugly and Slouchy” 1957
    Memphis Minnie “Please Set A Date” 1944
    Little Walter and his Jukes “Rocker”  1954
    Alabama Sacred Harp Singers “Religion Is A Fortune” 1928
    Charlie Bowman and his Brothers “Moonshiner and his Money” 1929
    Big Boy Spires “Murmur Low” 1952
    The Hi-Flyers “Juke Box Jump” 1941
    Hop Wilson “Black Cat Bone” 1960
    T Texas Tyler and his Oklahoma Melody Boys “Bucket’s Got A Hole In It” 1949
    Cripple Clarence Lofton “Monkey Man” 1935
    The Carter Family “Sunshine In The Shadows” 1931
    Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers “Blue Eyed Darling” 1951
    Tex Williams and his Orchestra “Didn’t Even Kiss Me Goodbye” 1951
    Leroy Jenkins and his Texas Showboys “Too Fat Boogie” 1950
    Dixieland Jug Blowers “Banjoreno” 1928

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    1 hr 2 min
  • Episode #23- Jerry Garcia.

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    Today’s episode is an examination and celebration of the musical roots of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia. Garcia’s musical roots begin in the early 1960s with traditional American folk music. With styles ranging from bluegrass, old time country music, folk, blues and jug band music, Garcia was a well known performer in SanFrancisco and Bay Area clubs. Around 1964-65 Jerry switched his energy from bluegrass banjo to the electric guitar after forming a rock band with fellow American down home music enthusiasts Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” Mckernan, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzman. The Warlocks, soon renamed the Grateful Dead became an extremely popular act in the SanFrancisco area and the rest, as they say, is history. 

    The format for this episode is semi-chronological in regard to Jerry Garcia’s music styles. A variety of styles are examined and is nowhere near a complete, in depth analysis of Jerry’s styles and influences. That could be a full length book. Rather, the show is a simple examination that looks at some of the original recordings that influenced Jerry and then mixes in snippets of how those recordings were manifested in Garcia’s style throughout the decades he was active as a performer up until his untimely death in August of 1995. Early recordings of Jerry in his many aggregations around the Bay Area folk scene have long been available as bootleg tapes as well as most, if not all, of the Grateful Dead shows from their 30 year career made possible through the Dead’s allowing of and encouragement of taping their live performances. There’s a lot out there to listen to and I recommend you seek out as many recordings as you can.

    For an in depth dive on the Grateful Dead I highly recommend the official podcast of the Grateful Dead, The Good ‘Ol Grateful Deadcast as David Grisman’s record label, Acoustic Disc, which made many great recordings of Jerry playing traditional American music in the early 1990’s. See links below. 

    Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show. 

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    Good ‘Ol Grateful Deadcast: https://www.dead.net/deadcast

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    1 hr 10 min
  • Episode #22- "Recurring Inebriation, Guitar Evangelists and Blue Railroad Trains"

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    Thanks for listening to the Old Dingy Jukebox podcast. This episode simply features some of my favorite records across various styles from my collection of 78rpm records. Blues, Jazz, Western Swing and Early Country Music are the order of the day for today's show. Sit back and enjoy the show and thanks for listening.    

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    1 hr 7 min
  • Episode #21- History Addendum Part Two- "Goin' Up The Country" Race, Records and the American Musical Identity

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    Attention history enthusiasts, musicologists and ordinary people with an inquisitive mindset.

    Welcome to Episode One, PART TWO of the Old Dingy Jukebox History Addendum.


    These history heavy, music related episodes are inspired by my interest in musicology and history as well as some of my favorite podcasts like Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" or Tyler Mahan Coe's "Cocaine and Rhinestones".

    The usual, music centered shows that you're used to will continue to be released on a regular basis.

    Check out Episode One, Part Two : "Goin' Up The Country": Race, Records and the American Musical Identity.

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    1 hr 18 min

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The Old Dingy Jukebox features a wide variety of down home American music styles played from a diverse collection of 78 rpm and 45 rpm records. Each show takes the listener on an aural journey…