BLUES TOUR - Ridin' the Road
THE SCOOP
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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.
34. Bright Lights, Big City (Dunleith)
Eddie and Frank's recording of Jimmy Reed's Bright Lights, Big City couldn't have been more memorable. Details could be strung out for pages but they involve harmonicas, a low flying crop duster, pigeons, an empty cotton gin and lots of smiles.
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