Blues for Home and Highways: Eddie Cotton, Jr. & Willis Alan Ramsey
Jackson, Mississippi blues guitarist Eddie Cotton, Jr. takes time out from his performance at the 2019 National Folk Festival to talk to us about his gospel roots and his mission to bring Mississippi music to the world. Then we sit in on a live set from New Orleans’s Chickie Wah Wah with Texan songman Willis Alan Ramsey. Plus music from Robert Johnson, Lucinda Williams, Sister Rosetta Tharp and Willie Nelson.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Fair Weather Lover Eddie Cotton, Jr. One at a Time , DeChamp
Up Above My Head Sister Rosetta Tharp The Original Soul Sister , Proper
I Want a Tall Skinny Papa Rosetta Tharp with the Lucky Millender Orchestra The Original Soul Sister , Proper
What's So Easy for Two Is Hard for One Mary Wells Mary Wells Looking Back 1961-64 , Motown
Everything But You Jamey Johnson, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill & Ray Price Living for A Song: Tribute to Hank Cochran, Mercury
Raise Your Hand Eddie Floyd Knock On Wood , Stax
You Keep Me Hanging On Bonnie & Sheila Wardell Quezergue Strung Out: Malaco Sessions , Malaco
Instrumental: Last Night The Mar-Keys The Last Night!, Atlantic
Tupelo (Pt.1) Albert King, Pops Staples & Steve Cropper The Definitive Albert King, Stax
Spirit in This Place Prince Dixon and the Jackson Southernaires Prince Dixon with the Jackson Southernaires , Malaco
Segment: Eddie Cotton, Jr.
Instrumental: Okie Dokie Stomp Gatemouth Brown Blues Masters, Volume 3: Texas Blues , Rhino
My Home's in the Delta Buddy Guy and Jr. Wells Buddy Guy and Jr. Wells – Alone and Acoustic , Alligator Records
Guitar in My Hand Gatemouth Brown Texas Guitar Killers , Capitol
Blues Before Sunrise B.B. King One Kind Favor , Geffen
Boogie Rock B.B. King The Soul of B.B. King, Virgin
Travel On The Jackson Southernaires Down Home, Malaco
Closing Bed: Time is Tight Booker T & the MGs The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol.2, 1968-1971, Stax
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Sympathy for a Train Willis Alan Ramsey American Routes original recording from Chickie Wah Wah 2019,
Love in Vain Robert Johnson Robert Johnson – The Complete Recordings, Columbia
This Train Staple Singers Amen!, Epic
Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad Woody Guthrie This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
In the Jailhouse Now Leon Russell Hank Wilson’s Back, Vol. 1 , Capitol
Intrumental: Cherry Beat Leon Russell Looking Back, Olympic Records
Painted Lady Willis Alan Ramsey Willis Alan Ramsey, Koch
Honky Tonk Heroes Waylon Jennings Honky Tonk Heroes, Sony
Well Well Well Lucinda Williams Little Honey, UMG
Segment: Willis Alan Ramsey
Wishbone Willis Alan Ramsey American Routes original recording from Chickie Wah Wah 2019,
Watermelon Man Willis Alan Ramsey American Routes original recording from Chickie Wah Wah 2019,
Geraldine and the Honey Bee Willis Alan Ramsey American Routes original recording from Chickie Wah Wah 2019,
Closing Bed: Sympathy for a Train Willis Alan Ramsey American Routes original recording from Chickie Wah Wah 2019,