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Fatstax 020: The Blues & Soul

We’ve done Jazz but now it’s time to explore the harder, more dogged and sexier parent of soul. From the dolorous wail of an electric guitar to the rhythmic pattern of call-and-response found in blues chorus and verse, we look at the characteristics our favourite genre inherited from its musical ancestor and how modern soul musicians keep the blues alive. 

1. B.B. King - How Blue Can You Get (Live at Cook County Jail, 1970)
2. Robert Johnson - Preachin’ Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
3. Eric Clapton - Love In Vain
4. CLIP: Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
5. CLIP: Roy Brown - Dreaming Blues
6. CLIP: Muddy Waters - Rollin’ Stone
7. CLIP: The Rolling Stones - Little By Little
8. Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Hoochie Coochie Man (Live @ The Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago, IL in 1981) 
9. Ike & Tina Turner - Three O’Clock In The Morning Blues
10. CLIP: Ray Charles - (Night Time Is) The Right Time
11. CLIP: Jill Scott - Shame
12. CLIP: Erykah Badu - Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop)
13. James Hunter - No Smoke Without Fire 
14. Otis Redding - Rock Me Baby
15. Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves - It’s Easier
16. José James - Every Day I Have the Blues
17. Keb’ Mo’ - I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

Originally aired: 22nd September 2012 on BFM 89.9

(via liy)