Show #277--4/10/11

We Will All Go Together When We Go—Tom Lehrer

Shake ‘Em on Down—Mississippi Fred McDowell

Hats Off to (Roy) Harper—Led Zeppelin

China Girl—Roy Harper

A Million Years—Alexander

Candlelighter Man—Fanny

Thunder and Lightning—Chi Coltrane

The Mama Papa—Plants and Animals

More Than You—Laki Mera

Better Than Nothing—Jennifer Trynin

I Do Not Play No Rock ‘n’ Roll—Dangerman

Library of Congress National Recording Registry 2011 Selections

Hour 2—You Don’t Know Me, I Don’t Know You

You Don’t Know Me—Ray Charles

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out—Nina Simone

Who Was That Man?—Nick Lowe

Walk on By—Leroy Van Dyke

Daylight Stranger—Gary Puckett & the Union Gap

Take Time to Know Her—Percy Sledge

Danger! She’s a Stranger—The Five Stairsteps

People Are Strange—The Doors

She is Still a Mystery—The Lovin’ Spoonful

Beautiful People—Melanie

The Stranger—Billy Joel

Stranger in My Home Town—Foghat

Eyes of a Stranger—The Payola$

No One Here Knows Jane—Warren Zanes

Stranger to Himself—Traffic 

My name is Fred McDowell. They call me Miss'ippi Fred McDowell. But it, my home's in Ro[ss]ville Tennessee. But it don' make any different, it soun' good to me. I seem like I'm at home in there when I'm in Miss'ippi? An' I do not play no rock'an'roll y'all. I jus' play jus' straight an' natchel blue? An' whenever you get somebody, y'know, want to plo:w for you, just call for Fred McDowell, yeh. I wa[s] raised on the farm, y'unnerstan'? Now only way you can rock Fred, you have to put him in a rocking chair, or either lay me down, y'unnerstan, yeh. Heh, that's my type of rockin', yeh heh heh. [plays a line]

An' my type of blue? I play it with a bottleneck? I first got this style from a beef bone, y' understan' me. Rib wha' come out of a steak? My uncle, when I was a small boy in the country. He ground this bone down, and filed it with a file, and put 't'on his little fi[ae]nger. But I play't on my ri[ae]ng finger, y' understan'? An' nis a- dis here bottleneck sound better'n the bone, cause you get more clar- clear sound outa it. [plays a chord]

An' I, I would like for you to, you- who's never listen to me. [Come] over here an' buy one of the tape, a album, anything. I like for, I like for you to listen at what I'm saying. I'd make the guitar say what I say, y'understan'. [plays line] If I say 'Our Father'? it'll say 'Our Father'. [chord] If I give out a hymn? it'll say it. [chord] If I play '[A]mazin' Grace'? it'll si[ae]ng that too. [plays line] Now that's my style, what you hear me doing there. [plays line] I hope y'all like it, who's never git it.