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Mike Rugel and the Delta Blues Museum take a raw look at the early history of blues music. Each show includes a series of pre-war blues tracks along with context and exposition. | |
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Songs about presidents and the White House. |
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Songs about the Works Progress Administration |
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Songs about U.S. highways |
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Songs that tell the stories behind the nicknames of blues musicians. |
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Songs about the Illinois Central Railroad and Cannonball train. |
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Songs about paying the furniture man. |
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Songs about dogs in conjunction with the Delta Blues Museum Delta Dogs exhibit. |
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Music recorded at the Fort Valley College Folk Festival between 1941 and 1943. |
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A tour of songs about Mississippi towns. |
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Songs about the prison experience. |
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Songs about experiences with the police, lawyers, judges, jails, and prison. |
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Blues songs with lyrics that seem weird to the modern listener. |
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Blues songs about playing policy, the popular lottery game. |
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Some great versions of songs about the legendary steel driving man. |
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Blues songs about skin tone and the stereotypes around high yellow, brown, or black. |
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Bluesmen from the Depression sing about Hard Times and struggling just to get by. |
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A look at some blues songs featuring that black snake. |
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An appreciation of bluesman Henry Townsend who died Sunday, September 24, 2006 at age 96. |
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Blues songs with lyrics about ethnicity and nationality. |
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Blues musicians create songs to acknowledge their recently passed friends and mentors. |
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