Code Blue Episode December 4, 2021

Martin Scocese Presents The Blues - The 1950s

3:00pm - 5:00pm

It's the first Saturday of the month, so it must be retrospective day on Code Blue! Today, we turn the spotlight on the box set inspired by Martin Scorceses's 7 part PBS series simply called 'The Blues' which aired in 2003, declared the 'Year of the Blues'. We will air Disc 3 from the box, which covers the 1950s, in many people's opinion the best period of post-war electric blues. Don't miss it!

Track Listing:

Code Blue
JW Jones Band · My Kind of Evil
Mother Earth
Memphis Slim · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Please Send Me Somebody To Love
Percy Mayfield · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Rocket 88
Jackie Brenston · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Dust My Broom
Elmore James · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
No More Doggin'
Rosco Gordon · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Juke
Little Walter · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Hound Dog
Big Mama Thornton · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Reconsider Baby
Lowell Fulson · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
The Thinngs That I Used To Do
Guitar Slim · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
In The Night
Professor Longhair · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Hoochie Coochie Man
Muddy Waters · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Eisenhower Blues
JB Lenoir · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Blue Monday
Fats Domino · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Hard Times
Ray Charles · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
I Hear You Knockin'
Smiley Lewis · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Mystery Train
Elvis Presley · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Don't Start Me To Talkin'
Sonny Boy Williamson II · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Smokestack Lightnin'
Howlin' Wolf · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Who Do You Love
Bo Diddley · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
I'm A King Bee
Slim Harpo · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Further Up The Road
Bobby 'Blue' Bland · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
So Many Roads, So Many Trains
Otis Rush · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
First Time I Met The Blues
Buddy Guy · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Big Boss Man
Jimmy Reed · Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Rez Blues
Murray Porter · Songs Lived and Life Played
Them Mens
Dalannah Gail Bowen · Them Mens
Who's Foolin' Who
Dalannah Gail Bowen · Them Mens
Cow Cow Boogie
David Vest · Live at Hermann's