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This week's Backbeat features what may be the first so-called Do-Wopp record, an early Bakersfield recording from Wynn Stewart (pictured). a lovely "folk song" from Big Bill Broonzy, Li'l Andy presents a fictitious troubadour from the 1920s, and Lori Yates gives us a haunting cowboy song.
Artist - Title Year B.B. King - Please Hurry Home 1953 Four Epics - Again 1963 Joe Loco - Why Don't You Do Right? 1954 Billy Wright - Heh Little Girl 1951 Big Joe Turner - Ti Ri Lee 1953 Lil Andy - When the Fire Comes Down 2021 Dixie Hummingbirds - Ezekiel Saw the Wheel 1947 Sol Ho'opi'i - Uheuhene 1930 Louis Armstrong, The Mills Brothers - Cherry 1940 Big Bill Broonzy - The Glory of Love 1956 Bill Boyd And His Cowboy Ramblers - Evil In You Children 1935 Sunset Jubilee Singers - Rasslin' Jacob 1951 Billy Austin & The Hearts - Angel Baby 1952 Slim Harpo - Baby Scratch My Back 1962 The Maddox Brothers & Rose - Uncle Pen 1962 Lori Yates - Cowboy 2024 Wynn Stewart - Big Big Love 1961 Village Boys - Baby I Ain't Satisfied 1941 Wynonie Harris - The Deacon Don't Like It 1953 Sidney Bechet - Shag 1932