NTS Guide to: Blues & The American Railroad 14th October 2023

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FRACTAL MEAT ON A SPONGY BONE

An audio scrapbook compiled by sound artist and musician Graham Dunning, comprised of sonic art and experiments, improvised music, textures and rhythms, as well as selections from Dunning's archive of found home tape recordings, and a variety of regular features.

NO ID RADIO W/ ANYSIA KYM

NYC-based producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Anysia Kym shares a monthly compilation of her favourite tracks, right now and of all time; she flips a song of her choice at the start of each hour-long episode.

Blues

From freed slaves who built the railway in the 19th Century, to men and women who rode them to escape the Jim Crow south in the early 20th Century, the blues and bluesmen were never far away.

Tracklist

0:01:35
De Ford BaileyDe Ford Bailey
Pan American Blues
0:04:24
Rev. J. M. Gates And His CongregationRev. J. M. Gates And His Congregation
The Funeral Train A-Coming
0:07:15
Sonny Terry, Sonny Terry, Woody GuthrieWoody Guthrie
Lonesome Train

Blind Teddy DarbyBlind Teddy Darby
Built Right On The Ground
Blind Joe Taggart, Blind Joe Taggart, Emma TaggartEmma Taggart
I Wish My Mother Was On That Train
Andrew And Jim BaxterAndrew And Jim Baxter
K.C. Railroad Blues
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Lucille BoganLucille Bogan
I Hate That Train Called The M. And O.
Robert JohnsonRobert Johnson
Love In Vain Blues
Gus Cannon's Jug StompersGus Cannon's Jug Stompers
Big Railroad Blues
John Lee HookerJohn Lee Hooker
Hobo Blues
The Reverend Robert WilkinsThe Reverend Robert Wilkins
Long Train Blues
Eddie Mapp And His HarmonicaEddie Mapp And His Harmonica
Riding The Blinds (1929)
Mississippi John HurtMississippi John Hurt
Spike Driver Blues
Bukka WhiteBukka White
The Atlanta Special
LeadbellyLeadbelly
John Hardy
John Lee HookerJohn Lee Hooker
Mean Old Train
Big Bill BroonzyBig Bill Broonzy
South Bound Train
Elizabeth CottenElizabeth Cotten
Freight Train
Mississippi Fred McDowellMississippi Fred McDowell
John Henry