NCPR Playlists
The Blue Note
with Ellen Rocco
May 01, 2012
3:00PM - 4:30PM
May Day... workers, money, and bosses...
| Name | Song Title | Name of CD | Track Label | Release Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Van Morrison | Ordinary life | Hymns to the Silence | Polydor | 1991 |
| Koko Taylor | Trying to make a living | I Got What It Takes | Alligator LP | 1975 |
| Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel | Sittin' on the top of the world | Willie & the Wheel | Bismeaux | 2009 |
| Jimmy Reed | Big boss man | The Very Best of Jimmy Reed | Rhino | 2000 |
| Mike Griffin | Workin' is the curse | Celebration of Blues:Party Blues | CBL | 1999 |
| Scrapomatic | God damn job | Allligator Love Cry | Landslide | 2006 |
| Albert Collins | Cash talking: workingman's blues | Cold Snap | Alligator LP | 1986 |
| Johnny Drummer | Somebody please give me a job | Unleaded Blues | Earwig | 2000 |
| Little Charlie & Nightcats | Got to have a job | Nine Lives | Alligator | 2005 |
| Dave Alvin | Gary, Indiana 1959 | Eleven, Eleven | YepRoc | 2012 |
| Bill Morrissey | Pay day | Avalon Blues: Tribute to Miss. John Hurt | Vanguard | 2001 |
| Bruce Springsteen | Pay me my money down | Seeger Sessions | CBS | 2008 |
| Willlie Nelson | Sixteen tons | Remember Me Vol. 1 | RJR | 2011 |
| John Hammond | Get behind the mule | Wicked Grin | Pointblank | 2001 |
| Kiim Wilson | Trying to make a living | My Blues | Blue Collar | 1999 |
| Alvin Youngblood Hart | When I was a cowboy | Big Mama's Door | Okeh | 1996 |
| Delbert McClinton | Lone star blues | Room to Breathe | New West | 2002 |
| Taj Mahal | Railroad bill | The Essential Taj Mahal | Columbia | 2005 |
| Tangle Eye | John Henry's blues | Blues Lounge | Putumayo | 2004 |
| Paul Butterfield Blues Band | Work song | East West | Elektra | 1968 |
