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Here is a summary of the previous ten Backbeat shows that can be streamed on-demand for free. Streaming service is provided by Mixcloud, clicking on the link will take you to their site.
This week we've got the Swanee River Boys (pictured) giving us a surprisingly hip gospel boogie, David Vest does a rollicking update on a song that's over a hundred years old, and there's the usual mix of blues, country jazz and gospel that you don't hear on the radio.
Back to normal on Backbeat this week, whatever that is. All over the musical map featuring some well-knowns like Joe Turner and unknowns like Buck Griffin (pictured) as well as a band with what has to be the longest name in music history.
I've got some unusual records cued up for Backbeat this week, as well as the usual mix of gospel, blues, country jazz and rock 'n' roll. We'll have a black vocal group backed up by a white clarinet player, one of Hoagy Carmichael's weirder songs, a novelty number about playing piano and a lively number by the Todd Rhodes Orch., a band whose story line stretches from 1930s jazz to 1950s rock 'n' roll to 1960s Motown.
It's our annual listener favourites year-end show this week. We feature the songs and artists that listeners around the world have reacted to. We have requests and reactions from Newfoundland and Labrador, British Columbia, Tokyo, Mexico and California. It's a New Year's party not to be missed
It's our annual Holiday Edition of Backbeat this week, all kinds of festive music guaranteed to please even people who don't like festive music. From Hank Snow (of course) to Big Maybelle, to the Stanley Brothers to Chris Isaak to fun-loving group Hey, Wow to Stompin' Tom Connors, there's something for everybody. Have fun but don't over do it, or you might spend Christmas in jail.
This week has lots of blues, by blues singers this time, that just the way it goes. We'll also hear some movie music, a Zydeco Queen who got into playing music professionally in mid-life, records with star back-up singers (made before they were stars) and a new record from country singer Jeff Beadle that doesn't sound very country.
Check out this week's show to hear a lot of country musicians singin' the blues, early records by Little Anthony and Rockin' Sidney made before they hit it big, a great Little Richard B-side and Carole King does a Neil Sedaka song.
On this show you'll hear a mandolin-playing Chicago bluesman, a great band lead by a man who wasn't a musician but used music to promote his career in politics, a rare African swing record, along with New Orleans classics and Blue Moon Marquee is back with a track recorded in New Orleans this past summer.
On this week's show you'll hear some blues classics, a professional baseball player leading a vocal group, Helen Humes telling her man in no uncertain terms who is the boss, an early Philly Sound track produced by Kenny Gamble and a soulful b-side from Fontella Bass.
This week we've got drinkin' songs, redemption songs, blues songs, boogie songs and country chestnuts. We'll hear a Canadian group trying to sound British, who later pivoted to sound very American and a song from Brad Strang who doesn't sound like anybody else.