This week we'll hear records by a jazz guy with no hair, a pianist with a lot of hair, the Soul Stirrers with their original lead singer (and Sam Cooke's mentor), Brad Strang shows off his vintage tricone National Steel guitar and one of the most successful rock 'n' roll songwriters ever makes a rare vocal appearance.
Artist - Title Year Sister Rosetta Tharpe - All Over This World 1942 Merl Lindsay - Mop Rag Boogie 1950 The Davis Sisters - Rag Mop 1953 Louis Prima - Paper Doll 1954 Otis Blackwell - Daddy Rollin' Stone 1952 The Stanley Brothers - The Fields Have Turned Brown 1949 The Soul Stirrers Featuring R.H. Harris - My Loved Ones Are Waiting For Me (Waiting and Watching) 1950 Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Shavetail 1947 Professor Longhair - Between the Night and Day (In the Wee Wee Hours) 1950 The Jamaicans - Ba Ba Boom 1967 Mahalia Jackson - What Could I Do 1948 Carl Story & The Rambling Mountaineers - My Lords Keeps a Record 1948 Jerry Irby - Drivin' Nails In My Coffin 1945 Brad Strang - Nickle of Wine 2024 Little Willie John - Need Your Love So Bad 1955 Allen Toussaint - Whirlaway 1958 The Hornets - Lonesome Baby 1953 Janis Martin - Good Love 1958 Meredith Howard & Maxwell Davis and His Orchestra - Goodbye 1949 Bill Doggett - The Madison