Country Boy Down In New Orleans – Downhome New Orleans Blues:
New Orleans has always been a music city, and some would say jazz was its most significant invention, formed around the dawn of the twentieth century and passed on to the rest of America and the world thereafter. That being said, anyone who's listened o the early New Orleans jazz records knows that blues was the bedrock for many of the bands such as Oscar 'Papa' Celestin, Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Louis Dumaine, The Chicago Footwarmers, Freddie Keppard and Johnny Dodds among others. Today's show documents some of the few downhome New Orleans bluesmen who made records including the pre-war blues of Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, and post-war sides by Snooks Eaglin, Boogie Bill Webb, Arzo Youngblood, Babe Stovall, Little Freddie King, Harmonica Williams and others.
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