WESN Show #32 - Oct 3, 2019

Concert Series: The Country Blues Comes To Central Illinois

Memphis Blues Caravan

March 22, 1974  Illinois Valley Community College  Oglesby, Illinois

• Memphis Piano Red - "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie"
• Memphis Piano Red - "Home At Last"
• Memphis Piano Red - "You Don't Have To Go"
• Memphis Piano Red - "Mother-In-Law Blues"
• Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon - "Corrina Corrina"
• Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon - "Yellow Yam Blues"
• Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon - "President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long"
• Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon - "Rats In My Kitchen"
• Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon - "Holy Spirit, Don't You Leave Me"
• Furry Lewis - "Mary Tell Blues"

The Memphis Blues Caravan performed two shows in downstate Illinois in 1974:
March 20: Illinois State University & March 22: Illinois Valley Community College 
(The performances heard on the show were recorded by Greg Steil at IVCC.  Some of Greg's recordings were used on the Memphis Blues Caravan Vol. 1 CD however Greg was not credited and the date and venue info in the liner notes was incorrect.)
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Larry Johnson

May 21, 1971  Illinois State University Normal, Illinois

• "Ragged and Dirty"
• "How Long Blues"
• "Got The Blues (Can't Be Satisfied)"
• "Nobody's Business If I Do"
• "Saturday Blues"
• "Pick Poor Robin Clean"

For more information on the New Friends of Old Time Music concerts at Illinois State University see the NFOTM page.