The Blues Trail Jonny Gee

The Blues Trail podcast features early country blues artists who were performing before the Second World War, and who's music has influenced many current artists. It is derived from The Blues Trail website which can be found at www.thebluestrail.com. Each episode will include a short vocal biography of a featured artist or artists, interspersed with illustrative tracks.


This episode features Memphis blacksmith and Beale Street Sheik, the “father” of the Memphis acoustic blues scene, Frank Stokes.

The tracks in this episode are:

How Long
Nehi Mamma Blues
Right Now Blues
Ain’t Nobody’s Business But Mine (Part 2)
Frank Stokes Dream

The Blues Trail podcast features early country blues artists who were performing before the Second World War, and who's music has influenced many current artists. It is derived from The Blues Trail website which can be found at www.thebluestrail.com. Each episode will include a short vocal biography of a featured artist or artists, interspersed with illustrative tracks.

The fifth episode features Atlanta bluesman Barbecue Bob Hicks.

The tracks in this episode are:

Easy Rider Don't You deny My Name
Mississippi Heavy water Blues
It Won't Be Long Now (with brother Charley [Lincoln] Hicks
Diddle Da Diddle (Georgia Cotton Pickers)
Motherless Chile Blues

The Blues Trail podcast features early country blues artists who were performing before the Second World War, and who's music has influenced many current artists. It is derived from The Blues Trail website which can be found at www.thebluestrail.com. Each episode will include a short vocal biography of a featured artist or artists, interspersed with illustrative tracks.

This fourth episode features New Orleans songster Richard "Rabbit" Brown.

The tracks in this episode are:

Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice
I'm Not Jealous
Sinking Of The Titanic
Where He Leads Me I Will Follow (is this Rabbit Brown performing as Blind Willie Harris?)
James Alley Blues

The Blues Trail podcast features early country blues artists who were performing before the Second World War, and who's music has influenced many current artists. It is derived from The Blues Trail website which can be found at www.thebluestrail.com. Each episode will include a short vocal biography of a featured artist or artists, interspersed with illustrative tracks.

This second episode features Texas gospel blues artist Blind Willie Johnson.

The tracks in this episode are:

It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
If I Had My Way
Lord I Just Can't Keep From Cryin'
When The War Was On
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground

The Blues Trail podcast features early country blues artists who were performing before the Second World War, and who's music has influenced many current artists. It is derived from The Blues Trail website which can be found at www.thebluestrail.com. Each episode will include a short vocal biography of a featured artist or artists, interspersed with illustrative tracks.

This episode features Indianapolis based artist Scrapper Blackwell.

The tracks in this episode are:

Penal farm Blues
Blue Day Blues
I Believe I'll make A Change (with Leroy Carr)
It's Too Short (with Leroy Carr & Josh White)
Kokomo Blues

The Blues Trail podcast features early country blues artists who were performing before the Second World War, and who's music has influenced many current artists. It is derived from The Blues Trail website which can be found at www.thebluestrail.com. Each episode will include a short vocal biography of a featured artist or artists, interspersed with illustrative tracks.

This first episode provides a short background to the series - followed by a biography of Mississippi blues artist Bukka White.

The tracks in the first episode are:

Black Train Blues
Strange Place Blues
Special Stream Line
Shake 'Em On Down
Fixin' To Die Blues