BLUES TOUR - Ridin' the Road
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Eddie and Frank Thomas Traveled the Blues Highway for Three Years, recording its story.
Eddie and Frank Thomas Traveled the Blues Highway for Three Years, recording its story.
2. St. Louis Blues (Memphis)
Next up in the 61 Down the Highway Blues Tour Eddie and Frank went to great heights. With permission and some good supervision, they were escorted to the top of the Falls Building in Memphis, where Eddie played the opening refrain from W. C. Handy's St. Louis Blues on a hundred year old cornet. Handy first performed St. Louis Blues here in 1914 at an open air dance floor called the Alaskan Roof Garden. The famous notes rang out over the river!
Watch the Clip (above) - Choose Your Stop and Listen (below)
CHOOSE YOUR STOP
(below)
- Mississippi Blues (Memphis)
- St. Louis Blues (Memphis)
- Memphis Blues (Memphis)
- Downtown Blues (Memphis)
- Mississippi Bottom Blues (Peabody Hotel, Memphis)
- Rocket 88 (Memphis)
- Memphis Jug Blues (Memphis)
- Downhearted Blues (Orpheum Theater)
- That's No Way (Central Station, Memphis)
- Big Road Blues (Memphis)
- When the Levee (Walls)
- Kansas City (The Levee)
- 61 Highway (Lake Cormorant)
- Shetland Pony (Clack's Store)
- Future Blues (Robinsonville)
- Sweet Home (Robinsonville)
- Cross Road Blues
- Hollywood Rag (Hollywood)
- Born Blind
- M & O Blues (Coahoma)
- Country Blues (Stovall Farms)
- Ham Hound Crave (Mattson)
- Depot Blues (Mattson)
- Bull Frog Blues (Dublin Break)
- Poor Boy (Tutwiler, MS)
- Special Streamline (Swan Lake)
- Little Red Rooster (Swan Lake)
- Pea Vine Blues (Dockery Farms)
- Avalon Blues (the Valley Store)
- Mule Ridin' Man (Scott, MS)
- High Water (Mounds Landing)
- Catfish Blues (Greenwood)
- Yellow Dog Blues (Moorhead)
- Bright Lights (Dunleith)
- Nelson Street (Greenville)
- Vacation Blues (Hollandale)
- Mean Old 'Frisco (Midnight)
- Baby Please Don't Go (Rolling Fork)
- Kassie Jones (Vaughan)
- Cypress Grove Blues (Bentonia)
- Saturday Blues (Jackson)
- Sitting on Top (Jackson)
- Dust My Broom (Richland)
- Old Devil (Bolton)
- Vicksburg Blues (Vicksburg)
- You Can't Judge a Book (Vicksburg)
- New Someday Baby (Port Gibson)
- Mississippi River Blues (Natchez)
- Pres Returns (Woodville)
- Juke (Marksville, Louisiana)
- Midnight Special (Angola)
- Jolie Blonde (Sunshine)
- Buddy Bolden's Blues (New Orleans)
- Bamboula (New Orleans)
- Mamie's Blues (New Orleans)
- Mr. Jelly Lord (New Orleans)
- Wolverine Blues (New Orleans)
- Basin Street (New Orleans)
- Hotter Than That (New Orleans)
- Tomorrow Night (New Orleans)
- Sweet Hour of Prayer