Cause and Effect presents:
Cause and Effect – The British Blues
This week’s episode of Cause and Effect, hosted by Dr Jay, focuses on The British Blues. When one thinks of the blues, England isn’t the first place most people think of but they definitely latched onto the blues in the mid-to-late 1950’s and started to make it their own. An electrified visit by Muddy Waters in 1958 set the younger generation on their ear and they never looked back. They kept speeding it up, cranking it up, and sent it back to America as part of the British Invasion. Any genre that includes The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix is pretty much an influence on much of the music we hear today.
We’ll dig into some of the tracks that introduced the blues to England, some of the American blues legends that brought it over in person, the bands that started by playing legendary blues tracks but then began writing their own, bands that started with the blues but branched out in many different directions, and some recent music that calls the British Blues an influence.
There’ll be nearly 100 years of music on this show so I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I loved pulling it together and doing the research. If you’re familiar with my usual show, Alternative Milestones which airs every Thursday from 1-3 PM, you know that digging into music history is kinda my thing.
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Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson, “Have To Change Keys To Play These Blues”
from Pioneers of the Jazz Guitar
Yazoo - 2005
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Josh White, “Evil Hearted Me”
from Josh White Comes A-Visitin', Big Bill Broonzy Comes A-Singin'
Life Series - 1958
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Big Bill Broonzy, “Baby Please Don't Go”
from Josh White Comes A-Visitin', Big Bill Broonzy Comes A-Singin'
Life Series - 1958
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![R&B from the Marquee (feat. Cyril Davies, Dick Heckstall-Smith & Long John Baldry) [Remastered]](https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music126/v4/99/d6/ad/99d6ad2c-aec7-cf0d-2f2f-d47b2a2f18c3/5056321622143.png/170x170bb.jpg)
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, “Rain Is Such a Lonesome Sound (feat. Cyril Davies, Dick Heckstall-Smith & Long John Baldry) [Remastered]”
from R&B from the Marquee (feat. Cyril Davies, Dick Heckstall-Smith & Long John Baldry) [Remastered]
RevOla - 2010
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Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, Willy Dixon,Otis Span, “Bye Bye Blues”
from American Folk Blues Festival 1963
Fontana - 1963
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Sonny Boy Williamson II & The Yardbirds, “Out on the Water Coast (Live at The Crawdaddy Club, 1963 - 2015 Remaster)”
Charly Digital - 1984
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The Animals with Sonny Boy Williamson, “Night Time is the Right Time”
from The Animals Live with Sonny Boy Williamson
Decal - 1988
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The Yardbirds, “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (feat. Eric Clapton) [Live at the Marquee Club, 1964 - 2015 Remaster]”
from Five Live Yardbirds (Live at the Marquee Club, London 1964 - 2015 Remaster)
Charly Digital - 1964
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John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, “Double Crossin' Time”
from Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (Deluxe Edition)
Decca Music Group Ltd. - 1966
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Jethro Tull, “Stormy Monday (John Peel Session: 5th November 1968)”
from John Peel Top Gear Session: Jethro Tull (5th November 1968) - EP
Parlophone UK - 2010
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Led Zeppelin, “Sunshine Woman (14/4/69 Rhythm & Blues Session)”
from The Complete BBC Sessions (Live)
Rhino Atlantic - 2016
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John Mayall, “Can't Take No More (feat. Marcus King)”
Forty Below Records - 2022
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