Episode #85: Cryin' Mercy

The second annual Star Time Blues Summit features indisputable classics of blues music from the years 1946 to 1963. Chicago blues. Delta blues. Country blues. City blues. Baseball blues. Mojo blues. Astrophysics blues. Blues that we'll have to bring to Jerome. Practically all the blues, except for Hill Street Blues and those blues The Who sang about on Quadrophenia. I mean we're playing the blues on this show. Keep your yellows and your ochres at home. Today we're nothing but blues.

Artist	Song	Year	Label
Set 1
Josh White	Sometime	1946	Decca
Wynonie Harris	Blow Your Brains Out	1947	King
B.B. King	Miss Martha King	1949	Bullet
Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends	I'll Get Along Somehow	1947	Capitol
Sugar Chile Robinson	The Bases Were Loaded	1950	Capitol
Mable Scott	Mr. Fine	1953	Parrot
Luther Huff	Dirty Disposition	1951	Trumpet
Little Donna Hightower	I Ain't In the Mood	1951	Decca
Set 2
Sonny Boy Williamson	Eyesight to the Blind	1951	Checker
Annie Laurie	Get Me Some Money	1952	Okeh
Geneva Vallier	You Said You Had a Woman	1955	Cash
Albert King	Be On Your Merry Way	1954	Parrot
Zola Taylor	Make Love to Me	1954	RPM
Shakey Horton	Have a Good Time	1956	Cobra
Lightnin' Slim	I Can't Be Successful	1955	Excello
Lazy Lester	I'm Gonna Leave You Baby	1956	Excello
Charles Brown	Cryin' Mercy	1954	Aladdin
Set 3
Muddy Waters	Got My Mojo Working	1957	Chess
Johnny Guitar Watson	Oh Baby	1955	RPM
Howlin' Wolf	Somebody in My Home	1957	Chess
Bo Diddley	Bring It to Jerome	1958	Chess
Eartha Kitt with Shorty Rogers & his Giants	Hesitating Blues	1958	RCA
Jimmy Rogers	My Last Meal	1959	Chess
Slim Harpo	You'll Be Sorry One Day	1959	Excello
Big Al Downing	When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again	1959	Carlton
Warren Storm	Troubles, Troubles	1959	Nasco
Set 4/Outro
Jimmy Reed	Found Love	1960	Vee Jay
Frank (Shake Aplenty) Frazier	Foot Race	1960	R Records
Bobby Bland	I Pity the Fool	1961	Duke
Jesse Fuller	Midnight Cold	1963	Good Time Jazz
Johnny Acey	I Go Into Orbit	1962	Fling
Lonnie Johnson	Lines in My Face	1961	Prestige Bluesville
John Lee Hooker	I'll Believe I'll Go Back Home	1960	Riverside
Brownie McGhee	Door to Success	1962	Prestige Bluesville