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GUITAR BOSSES: LES PAUL & HONEYBOY EDWARDS
Tune in and pay witness to over 150 years of guitar experience between this week’s nonagenarian guests. Les Paul, the Wizard of Waukesha, talks about his leap from taking up the instrument to inventing the guitar heard ‘round the world that bears his name. And Delta guitarist and walking blues encyclopedia Honeyboy Edwards comes by our studio and remembers Robert Johnson, the 1927 flood, and recording for Alan Lomax along the way.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Wabash Blues Les Paul
Bye Bye Blues / Les and Mary, Collectables - Boss Guitar Duane Eddy
Twang Thing: The Duane Eddy Anthology, Rhino - Guitar Boogie Shuffle The Virtues
Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar - Rock: The ‘50s, Vol. 1, Rhino - No Particular Place to Go Chuck Berry
His Best, Volume 2, MCA/Chess - Sugarfoot Rag Junior Brown
Junior High, Curb - Instrumental: Spanish Fandango Mississippi John Hurt
Avalon Blues 1963, Rounder - My Creole Belle Mississippi John Hurt
Avalon Blues 1963, Rounder - Shake it, Baby Jessie Mae Hemphill
Feelin' Good, HMG/High Water - Shake, Rattle and Roll Elvis Presley
The King of Rock ‘n' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, RCA - My Babe Bo Diddley
Chess Blues Guitar: Two Decades of Killer Fretwork, MCA/Chess - Vida Lee T-Bone Walker
The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954, EMI - Instrumental: Nola Les Paul
Les Paul and Mary Ford, Collectibles - INTERVIEW: Les Paul
Listen - Haunted House Lonnie Johnson with Elmer Snowden
Blues & Ballads, Bluesville - Strange Things Happening Every Day Fern Jones
The Glory Road, Numero Group - Don't Let the Devil Ride Sonny Treadway
Sacred Steel, Arhoolie - Right Off Miles Davis
A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Columbia
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Apron Strings Honeyboy Edwards, Floyd Jones, Kansas City Red, Sunnyland Slim, Big Walter Horton
Old Friends, Earwig - You and My Old Guitar Jimmie Rodgers
The Early Years, 1928-1929, Rounder - Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar) Jean Shepard
Only Country, 1960-1964, JCI - Sugar Magnolia Grateful Dead
Europe '72, Warner Bros - Chuco's Cumbia Los Lobos
The Town and the City, Hollywood - Guitar Rumba Earl Hooker
Chess Blues Guitar: Two Decades of Killer Fretwork, MCA/Chess - Baby You Can Get Your Gun Earl King
Earl's Pearls, West Side - Instrumental: Funk-Shun Albert King
King of the Blues Guitar, Atlantic - INTERVIEW: Honeyboy Edwards
Listen - Someday Baby Bob Dylan
Modern Times, Columbia - She's Gone Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers
Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers, Alligator - Instrumental: Windy & Warm Doc Watson
Foundation: Doc Watson Guitar Instrumental Collection, 1964-1998, Sugar Hill - Worried Man Blues The Carter Family
Worried Man Blues, Rounder - Balfa Waltz David Doucet
Quand J'ai Parti, Rounder - Confessin Django Reinhardt
Reinhardt & Christian: Members Edition, TKO - Basin Street The Mills Brothers
The Best of the Early Mills Brothers: 1931-1942, Allegro - End Bed: Radio Hula Led Kaapana & Friends
Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters Collection Volume 2, Dancing Cat
