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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Favoriting May 2, 2018: The Rhythm and The Blues In Many Forms

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3 
Jimmy McCracklin  The Walk   Favoriting Get On the Right Track Baby  Fantastic Voyage  1958  CD 
The Megatons  Shimmy Shimmy Walk   Favoriting Get On the Right Track Baby  Fantastic Voyage  1962  CD 
Elmore James  Shake You Moneymaker   Favoriting Get On the Right Track Baby  Fantastic Voyage  1962  CD 
John Lee Hooker  Dimples   Favoriting Get On the Right Track Baby  Fantastic Voyage  1964  CD 
Muddy Waters  You Need Love   Favoriting Get on the Right Track Baby  Fantastic Voyage  1962  CD 
 
Blind Lemon Jefferson  Matchbox Blues   Favoriting Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Atlanta and Chicago 1926  Proper Box UK  1927  CD 
Blind Lemon Jefferson  See That My Grave Is Kept Clean   Favoriting Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Atlanta and Chicago 1926  Proper Box UK  1928  CD 
Blind Willie McTell  Stomp Down Rider   Favoriting The Definitive Blind Wilie McTell  Columbia  1931  CD 
Riley Puckett  A Darkey's Wail   Favoriting A Darkey's Wail  Sony  1927  CD 
Blind Willie Johnson  If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down   Favoriting Dark Was the Night  Columbia  1928  CD 
Blind Willie Johnson  Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground   Favoriting Dark Was the Night  Columbia  1928  CD 
 
Dave Van Ronk  Come Back Baby   Favoriting Folksinger  Prestige  1962  LP 
Dave Van Ronk  Dink's Song   Favoriting Dave Van Ronk Sings  Folkways  1961  LP 
Dave Van Ronk  Cocaine Blues   Favoriting Folksinger  Prestige  1962  LP 
Dave Van Ronk  Talking Cancer Blues   Favoriting Inside Dave Van Ronk  Prestige  1964  LP 
 
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters  Alley Oop   Favoriting Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters  Verve  1967  LP 
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters  Chelsea Morning   Favoriting Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters  Verve  1967  LP 
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters  Head Inspector   Favoriting Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters  Verve  1967  LP 
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters  New Dreams   Favoriting Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters  Verve  1967  LP 
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters  Clouds (Both Sides Now)   Favoriting Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters  Verve  1967  LP 
Dave Van Ronk  Hesitation Blues   Favoriting Dave Van Ronk Sings  Folkways  1961  LP 
Dave Van Ronk  Just a Closer Walk With Thee   Favoriting Dave Van Ronk Sings  Folkways  1961  LP 
Dave Van Ronk  Sunday Street   Favoriting Sunday Street  Philo  1999  CD 
Dave Van Ronk and Frankie Armstrong  Alabama Song   Favoriting Let No One Deceive You - Songs of Bertolt Brecht  Aural Tradition  1989  CD 
Dave Van Ronk and Frankie Armstrong  Tango Ballad   Favoriting Let No One Deceive You - Songs of Bertolt Brecht  Aural Tradition  1989  CD 
Dave Van Ronk  Garden State Stomp   Favoriting Going Back to Brooklyn  Reckless  1985  CD 
 
Bobby Darin  If I Were a Carpenter   Favoriting If I Were a Carpenter  Atlantic  1966  CD 
Bobby Darin  Don't Make Promises   Favoriting If I Were a Carpenter  Atlantic  1966  CD 
Bobby Darin  Me About You   Favoriting Inside Out  Atlantic  1967  LP 
Bobby Darin  Darling Be Home Soon   Favoriting Inside Out  Atlantic  1967  LP 
Bert Jansch  Poison   Favoriting Birthday Blues  Transatlantic  1969  LP 
The Yardbirds  White Summer   Favoriting Little Games  Epic  1967  LP 
Roy Buchanan  Down By the River   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atlantic  1978  45 
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45 


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Funky16Corners:

Helloooooooooooo!!!
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Jeff Ash:

Why, hello again, sir!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

Fancy seeing you here!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:07pm
Funky16Corners:

It seems like it was only this afternoon...
  10:09pm
little danny:

Hey Larry, hey all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:09pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Danny!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:10pm
Funky16Corners:

I really feel like I ought to be drinking something stronger than lemon seltzer.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:10pm
Jeff Ash:

That NF Porter finisher still pleasantly rattling around in my head.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Such a great record!
  10:16pm
still b/p:

In a few months of using this phone and its keypads and corrects and weird-ass behaviors, I’ve come to harbor a hot hot hate for it. The first comment I was trying and retrying to type, I gave up on.... and almost this one too. This is my testimony.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:17pm
Little Danny:

Such a pitch-perfect encapsulation of the UK mod blues aesthetic, that Right Track compilation
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:18pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey SBP, my large thumbs are perpetually at war with my iPhone.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:19pm
Funky16Corners:

@Danny - Yeah, that's one that I had to pick up even though I had a bunch of it on vinyl already, Really well done
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:24pm
Parq:

Hi, Larry. Welcome back. (Or should you say that to me?) In the interim, I listened to Drummer-Stream alum Matt Fiveash's birthday tribute to Little Walter, so it's a blues evening.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:24pm
Funky16Corners:

I want to check that out. Love Little Walter!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:39pm
Little Danny:

Annnnd "Dark Was the Night..." was the inspiring force behind Ry Cooder's soundtrack to "Paris, Texas"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:39pm
Funky16Corners:

I did not know that!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:48pm
Parq:

Was Dave Van Ronk the coolest human being ever to walk the face of the earth? I say he's definitely in the running.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:48pm
Funky16Corners:

I would certainly put him up there. Have you read his autobiography?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:50pm
Parq:

No, I didn't even know he had done one! Post a link if you've got it handy.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:51pm
Funky16Corners:

www.amazon.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:51pm
Funky16Corners:

It's amazing.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:55pm
Jeff Ash:

Dave Van Ronk used to play a dive bar in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a couple of times a year when I was going to college there in the late '70s. I confess I had no idea who he was at the time.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:55pm
Funky16Corners:

i never got to see him in person, much to my great regret.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:59pm
Jeff Ash:

I never saw him, either. It seemed like a place, and a gig, I just wasn't cool enough to be part of it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:00pm
Funky16Corners:

I missed out on some cool things for the very same reason. I don't think we had to worry.
  11:01pm
Doctorjazz:

I saw Van Ronkonkoma in some Village dive years back, though I don't think I knew much more about him than he was somehow connected to Dylan.
  11:02pm
Doctorjazz:

Van Ronkonkoma, like that spell check error!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:02pm
Funky16Corners:

One of the problems is that the stylistic breadth of his career has not been well served by reissues.
  11:06pm
Doctorjazz:

Missed the first half of the show, it was a goodn, have to check it out Tomorrow.
Love his Clouds take! What a great/bad voice, love it!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, I love to play this for people. It's so emotional, and so different from most of the famous versions.
  11:08pm
Doctorjazz:

He always sounds like he's battling his vocal cords to hit his notes, but he gets it right in the end.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:09pm
Funky16Corners:

The sound of whiskey and cigarettes
  11:14pm
rw:

Hey! Just got here. Damn, I missed a lot.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey rw!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:15pm
Funky16Corners:

Listen to the lyrics on this one
  11:16pm
rw:

Did hear most of Clouds. Man, that version is amazing.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:16pm
Funky16Corners:

Yeah, a big fave
  11:22pm
Doctorjazz:

Take that, Jim Morrison!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:24pm
Funky16Corners:

Brecht/Weill is one of my personal obsessions. Some night I'm going yo let it rip here on Testify
  11:26pm
Doctorjazz:

I think I need this album...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:27pm
Funky16Corners:

I think you can still find it around. I love it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:27pm
Funky16Corners:

This is one of those CDs that I lost between apartments and had to repurchase
Avatar ♥ 11:29pm
northguineahills:

Well, I made it! Good to hear you again, twice in the same day!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:30pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey NGH! Good to be heard!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:30pm
Funky16Corners:

In case anyone from out of the area is wondering what's going on, these are all New Jersey town names
  11:31pm
Doctorjazz:

Yup, it's in my Amazon carr
Avatar ♥ 11:37pm
northguineahills:

How am I not familiar w/ Van Ronk? (although I believe I've heard Garden State Stomp before on WFMU).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:38pm
Funky16Corners:

I guess it depends on your proximity to/interest in the NYC folk scene of the early 60s, from whence he emerged
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:38pm
Funky16Corners:

Or if you'd seen Inside Llewyn Davis which borrows a lot of his life
  11:44pm
Dean:

Van Ronk gets a lot of play on a longstanding KPFA folk music show, Across the Great Divide. (Kate Wolf, props!)

Just played a bunch of Jimmy LaFave at home tonight. Would love to hear him on WFMU now and then.
  11:45pm
Doctorjazz:

The retooled hip Darin.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:45pm
Funky16Corners:

It always amazes me that there's only 6 or seven years between that stuff and Splish Splash
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:46pm
Funky16Corners:

Just checked, more like 9 years
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:46pm
Funky16Corners:

Still, a pretty big spread
Avatar ♥ 11:46pm
northguineahills:

That's the problem, Larry, I know and own plenty of the artists Greenwich Village folk scene, and have biographies. How did I miss him???
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:47pm
Jeff Ash:

Thanks, Larry, I'm out!
  11:47pm
Dean:

And very happy to hear Testify! twice in a day!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:47pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite Jeff!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:47pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks Dean!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:48pm
Funky16Corners:

@NGH - I don't know. I guess he was kindof left behind by history, but there's a lot of stuff out there. Unfortunately the only career spanning collection was put out in 1992 on a really small label
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:52pm
Funky16Corners:

I also posted a link above to his autobiography, 'The Mayor of Macdougal Street. A great read.
  11:54pm
Doctorjazz:

Thanks Larry, great show! Isn't Testifying twice some kind of Double Jeopardy?
Night all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:55pm
Funky16Corners:

Nite Doc!
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northguineahills:

One of my favorite covers of Down By the River is by Low. This one hits well too.

Thanks for the link, Larry, and if I don't get back in time, thanks for the double duty today!
  11:58pm
Dean:

I'm pretty sure that "White Summer" is taken from a public domain folk tune.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:58pm
Funky16Corners:

Thanks NGH!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:59pm
Funky16Corners:

It is indeed, as were the other twp songs I mentioned, but Page picked them right out of Jansch's basket
  11:59pm
rw:

Thank you F16C! Sleep well tonight. You deserve it!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:00am
Funky16Corners:

Nite rw! I will sleep well tonight!
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