They know was Robert Johnson and it sort of parallels the same story as Billie Holiday Billie Holiday was a great artist but the thing that people really embrace her for it's not the singing as much as it is the story of her tragic life and the same thing with Robert Johnson there's this music and then there's the mystic tale of Robert Johnson's selling of the double for the ability to play and how is life was cut short so but in any case we're here we won't go into that we'll just play the music and you can take it for what it is is are a couple of classics if you listen to him at all you probably know this from 36 rambling on my mind from 37 breaking down. How dare. You. To. Eat. Meat in the. Evening and. That when you get him out. To. Dinner. I think. I'm an accountant. I don't find. Anything to do that I'm going to. Play with. Anything. To. Do that. I need. To. Do that I need. That mom got me. There to. Go back on the. The I. Am going. To conquer lead mama. Somebody's mama not pregnant. Rincon the. Brick in. The field but instead of another bone read out of it and. It'll make you lose your. Game of 7 live down the Goblin mama. Wasn't dumb pregnant break it down. Up really give. The devil got a better man I mean if. You don't make it good you might. Do. You none of that in mind when 911 they think. Of the nominee. Robert Blendon not reckoned. From reg in the. First vote a vote in red and maybe I'm. Going to make it in your mind boom boom. Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom now Damn I believe. That man and man in green. Government don't build no family meet up broken down a. Problem Reagan. Did better I know that burn a bridge and move. That I'm a huge a man. Who. Played in our youth rather moaners both. That's all my different crowd. Maybe you know it don't go above a going down. From Reagan that. Never got a bird of bread out of anything. Going to make it emerged. It's so. It's so. It's so. Get it. Gives you that. These. Are becoming. The sound. Of you and I ran. Them out and you know would you. Go. That is going to. Go. Going to rule out of. A road not a coming. Down and you know you. Get . It was. BELIN. Jim Jackson from February 19th 30 and the hesitation blues rounding out our set we started out with a couple by Robert Johnson 1st rambling on my mind from November of 1936 and then we listen to breaking down from a session in June of 1937 Robert Johnson guitar and vocal then we listened through our pioneering how monicker player our smart police and high sheriff on the Jemmett label from August of 1927 we listened to ramble and Thomas. That sound checks Louisiana way brought up to Chicago to record for the Paramount label Rambling Man Blues from November of 1928 that brought us around to General Jackson and hesitation February 19th 30. We're sorting through the pre-war recordings during this hour and up next we've got Freddie Nicholson Freddie Nicholson I think singing here Charles Avery play piano for March of 1930 it's called dirty no good or. I. Am. I. Am not. Not all the. Way you. Know am no doubt in. Fact. There are. think you got the other head really foster on piano and vocal from a 1930 and the corner blues words he was set on Paramount almost all of these were Yeah that was one Paramount before we had best method she was the singer Well we Wallace was the pianist and he was the guy who held up the other end of that running dialogue on a song. From October of 1929. And we start of the set with Freddie Nicholson he did the singing Charles Avery played piano a great piano too there from March 19th 30 and the dirty no good or your to no blues before sunrise and I'm Steve Cushing this hour we're listening to pre-war recordings how many of you are familiar with Professor Thomas a Dorsey the guy who is regarded as the father of gospel music if you wasn't the innovator he was certainly one of the popularizers and I guess it's no secret that for years before that Georgia Tom had been involved in secular music he recorded blues teamed up with camper read together they were for a number of years and also made records under his own name and accompanied people like Kansas City p.d. And Janie Lucas who may have been the same person but at a certain point there was a crisis in his life I think it was both his wife and his daughter took ill and passed away and it brought a change. In him his personality he decided he no longer wanted to sing blues he wanted to do things in a religious nature and he still had a recording contract with the folks at Voe Kelley and so. Before returning entirely to the world of the church he recorded a handful of recordings that were religious in nature something I should discuss because for many years it confounded me you're that Georgia Tom Dorsey was the father of gospel music and he did all these traditional hits things like Precious Lord I think he was responsible for a little wooden church and there's a whole list of great. Compositions that he did he wrote the tunes but the thing I did not understand was that in most cases these were not made into records at least not by him I kept looking for years for his religious recordings and they really didn't exist the medium at that point when you wrote a good gospel hit was music and the various churches would go out and buying you know however many copies they needed for their congregation and that's really where the money was made that kept the industrious afloat with sheet music not recordings. So there weren't really any commercial recordings to speak of after this. Before in the years before the war later on they found them in managed to make records of some of his best known hits what we're about to listen to are the religious recordings that he did before he quit recording the date from 1930 to a couple in 1932 and a couple in 1934 so check these out and. Again this was all predicated on. The death of his wife and his daughters the thing that turned him around. are. Faint. And. Very. Brave. All. Told. You. All to. And. The. Very brave. Lady. It's all. Our. Excuse. To say I. Am I. Live. Just so. Lives. Now. Are either. Side. By Thomas a Dorsey of a religious nature. Actually before he left the field the blue joined the church and quit recording we had how about you and if I could hear my mother. Praying for March 19th 32 it's thought that maybe scrapper Blackwell was on guitar there and then apparently singing in my soul and if you see my Savior which were done in March of 1934 there actually were I think. These last 2 were done in March of 34 and I think like the 22nd or the 23rd and then the very next day they did 2 more titles that were not issued so there were there were 2 more religious recordings that never saw the light of day but these are the final 4 recordings that he did for the folks at Voe Kalyan and then turned his attention entirely to the to the field of religious music you're tuned to blues before sunrise I don't know why but. You know something that we very seldom do I usually spend the time that we have playing vintage recordings that were done before the war just because so few people play them but every once in a while you turn our attention to recordings that were done by then. That were done much later how about. That originate on record an LP I don't do that very much anymore on the Blue Label Tom Shaw who was a stylus much in the style they say of the wind Lemon Jefferson Let's play it and see what you think this is called Stop in the valley from 1972. Thank you there's. On guitar and vocal stomp in the valley is the name of the recorded in April of 1972 and you can tell just by the production the liner notes. A new production same template. And Tony recordings and it says that he was the engineer here Cole wrote the liner notes here but he's still here blowing lemons but he apparently he was influenced highly by Blind Lemon Jefferson though in listening to this I hear a lot more melody and the playing of time as John than I ever hear. Him lemons playing. We've got the records let's try this one here's hacksaw Harney. Thanks. There's. Room in the room to eat me. To eat. And. Well I guess we better break in here there's Frank Covington from Delaware recorded in July 975 by Bruce Baskin and Dick sponsored Lonesome Road Blues was the name of it before that we listened to Memphis piano Red October 19th $69.00 Me and my pal was the name of it we also heard hacksaw Harney and hex. Blues also recorded an October 19th 69 this is blues before sunrise. Then you're listening to k k r s. Point 5 f.m. . Support for blues before sunrise provided in part by Victoria amplifier Victoria captures the sound of the glory of post-war Chicago telephone number as 630-820-6400 Victoria amplifier. Choice Well hi everybody blues. Blues heritage Ok. The hour that we step down into the alley Frank proves that right now. I am.