Thursday, August 6, 2020

Corona Playlist Early August 2020



ALBUMS

Fontaines DC A Hero's Death

Three Queens In Mourning feat Bonnie "Prince" Billy Hello Sorrow/Hello Joy

Devendra Banhart Vast Ovoid

Jarv Is... (Jarvis Cocker) Beyond The Pale

Various Artists Everything You Ever Need To Know About The Blues (3 Volumes)

Lana Del Rey Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass (Spoken Word)

Daniel Blumberg On&On&On

Buck Owens All The Best Tracks

PJ Harvey Dry Demos

Wye Oak No Horizon

Mike Pollize Long Lost Solace Find

Badfinger Shine On: Badfinger 1974

Led Zeppelin No Restrictions '69 (Live)

Witch (Zambia) Introduction

!!! Certified Heavy Kats

Emma Swift Blonde On The Tracks (an album of Dylan covers)

My new favorite song: Gillian Welch's "Everything Is Free", covered by Phoebe Bridgers (in L.A.) and Courtney Barnett (in Australia):





Corona Mania Lists: The 25 Country Blues Artists You HAVE To Know...



Reverend Gary Davis/ Blind Boy Fuller
Elizabeth Cotten
Blind Blake
Lonnie Johnson
Robert Johnson/ Willie Brown

Lightnin' Hopkins
Skip James
Mississippi John Hurt
Charley Patton
Pink Anderson

Mississippi Fred McDowell
Blind Willie McTell
Mance Lipscomb
Memphis Minnie/ Kansas City Joe
Lead Belly

Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Willie Johnson
Bessie Smith
Furry Lewis/ Frank Stokes
Son House

Mississippi Sheiks/ Bo Carter
Sonny Terry/ Brownie McGhee
Sonny Boy Williamson II
Henry Thomas
Charley Jordan/ Petey Wheatstraw



HONORABLE MENTION

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
John Lee Hooker
Bukka White
Ma Rainey

Muddy Waters
Howlin' Wolf /Little Walter/ Hubert Sumlin/ Otis Spann
Odetta
Joseph Spence
Blind Blake Alphonso Higgs


A FEW ARTISTS WE LIKE WHO WERE INFLUENCED BY COUNTRY BLUES

Billie Holiday
Nina Simone
Sam Cooke
Wilson Pickett
Otis Redding

Jimmie Rodgers
Dick Justice
Woody Guthrie
Hank Williams
Johnny Cash

Elvis
Carl Perkins
Fred Neil
Michael Bloomfield
Paul Butterfield