The Piedmont Report

06/20/2024

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page for Sycamore Place Gallery, Decatur, GA!

06/17/2024

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06/16/2024

Specializing in music, past and present, from the Piedmont region, along with tips for vegetable gardening and sustainable living, with your host Mudcat.

06/16/2024

Gospel BluesFreeman Vines Guitar and lead Vocal/ Shelton Powe Jr.Mandolin/ Sam DuffyBack ground Singers/KeAmber Daniels, Anthony Daniels and Johnny Ray Daniels

06/11/2024

May 31, 1997 - Etta Baker and John Jackson perform and talk about their music at the Seedtime on the Cumberland festival in Whitesburg, KY.00:59 - Step It Up...

06/09/2024

05/27/2024

05/22/2024

Justin Robinson is combining his love of music with ethnobotany, teaching the routes and roots of traditional southern cooking from Africa. You can follow him on IG

https://aahc.nc.gov/resources/preserving-north-carolina-african-american-history-culture/justin-robinson

L to R: Kathryn & Daniel "Mudcat" Dudeck, Dom Flemons, Justin Robinson. Photo by Vincent Tseng.

05/21/2024

NEW EPISODE!

Piedmont Report #141 featuring Tinsley Ellis
02-13-2024

LINK: https://mudcatblues.com/podcast/?name=2024-02-13_piedmont_report_141.mp3

** Jontavious Willis – The World is in a Tangle / Spectacular Class 2019 produced by Keb Mo
** Cora Mae Bryant and JJ – No No Blues / Born with the Blues [Music Maker]
** Tinsley Ellis – Alcovy Breakdown
**Cootie Stark – U-Haul / Raw Sugar [Music Maker]
** Ross Pead – Trouble When it Starts / Trouble When it Starts
** Chicago Bob Nelson and Ross Pead – Bad Boy / Live at Fat Matt's 2009 / Tell Me Mama [Music Maker]
** FARM REPORT ** Tinsley Ellis Story (with Silver Mountain)
** Tinsley Ellis – Window Pane / Easter Song / Tallahassee Blues / Horseshoes and Hand Grenades / Devil in the Room
** Ed Bell – Mamlish Blues
** Ed Bell – Shake Me Like a Dog [Recorded for Paramount in Chicago 1927; Ed Bell was born in May 1905, in Fort Deposit, Alabama on the Davis Plantation, the third of seven children. In the early 1920s, Bell did a little farming and a lot of playing and travelling, honing his technique with a small group of seven to ten friends and acquaintances, of which only he and Pillie Bolling were recorded.]
** Elizabeth Cotton – Aint Got No Honey Baby Now / Freight Train and other North Carolina Folks Songs and Tunes Folkways 1958
** Tinsley Ellis - Zeppin

05/09/2024

Jontavious (Quon) Willis was born May 9; 1996 in LaGrange Georgia

05/09/2024

Tidewater Virginia blues musicians - guitarist John Cephas and harmonica player Phil Wiggins - play a version of Richmond Blues (circa 1989). Video is court...

05/09/2024

Phil Wiggins

05/09/2024

(Bowling Green John) John Cephas - Phil Wiggins 1981

© Copyright: Jan Scheffner Fotografie

05/09/2024

two new episodes all about Piedmont virtuoso Phil Wiggins
https://mudcatblues.com/podcast/?name=2019-01-17_pt1.mp3

Piedmont Report # 104

Interview: I was lucky when I was young

Flora Molton and the Truth Band – Get Right With God (Living Country Blues USA, Vol. 3, recorded at her home in 1980 for L+R Records)

Chief Ellis and the Barrelhouse Rockers – Louise Blues (Classic Appalachian Blues, Smithsonian Folkways, 1976)

Interview: Archie Edwards setup

Archie Edwards – Baby Please Me a Break (Living Country Blues USA, Vol. 6, recorded in 1980 for L+R Records)

Interview: L+R Records

Bowling Green John Cephas – Richmond Blues (Living Country Blues, Vol. 1, L+R Records, 1981)

Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins – Pony Blues (Living Country Blues, Vol. 1, L+R Records, 1981)

Interview: Lay out a fat rhythm

Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins – I Saw the Light (Dog Days of August, Flying Fish, 1986)

Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins – Reno Factory (Dog Days of August, Flying Fish, 1986)

Interview: If you could dance to it

Cephas & Wiggins – A Shanty in Old Shanty Town (Bluesmen, Chesky, 1993)

Cephas & Wiggins – Piedmont Rag (Sweet Bitter Blues, L+R Records, 1984)

Interview: John Cephas the farmer and elephant dung

Cephas & Wiggins – Highway 301 (Sweet Bitter Blues, L+R Records, 1984)

Cephas and Wiggins – Bye Bye Baby, Take 1 (Sweet Bitter Blues, L+R Records, 1984)

05/09/2024

Piedmont Report #105 Phil Wiggins pt 2

http://mudcatblues.com/podcast/?name=2019-01-16_pt2.mp3

Sol Roots featuring Phil Wiggins – Forgiveness (single, 2018)

Interview: I was lucky

Cephas & Wiggins – Sounds of the Blues (Homemade, Alligator Records, 1999)

Interview: Young players

Cephas & Wiggins – Meeting the Mule (Homemade, Alligator Records, 1999)

Cephas & Wiggins – A Lot of Them Blues (Homemade, Alligator Records, 1999)

Interview & Recipe: Habanero Jerk Sauce

Interview: Ramps

Cephas & Wiggins – Pigmeat Crave (Richmond Blues, Smithsonian Folkways, 2008)

Cephas & Wiggins – John Henry (Richmond Blues, Smithsonian Folkways, 2008)

Interview: Blues Week

Nat Reese – Black and Blue Blues (Always Lift Him Up, 2007)

Phil Wiggins & the Chesapeake Sheiks – Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’ (No Fools No Fun, 2015)

Phil Wiggins & the Chesapeake Sheiks – Do You Call That a Buddy (No Fools No Fun, 2015)

Interview: Junious

Interview: House party and Chesapeake Sheiks

Phil Wiggins House Party – Roberta (Live at National Folk Festival, 2018)

special thanks to Stephen Winick, Jamie Katz of Pinecone, and of course Phil Wiggins

05/07/2024

05/07/2024

Blind Willie Mctell was born May 5, 1903 in Happy Valley, Mount Auburn District near Thomson, McDuffie County, Georgia

05/07/2024

Jesse Fuller at kibitzeria, Canada - May 6

Photo by Barry Philp

05/03/2024

Since tomorrow afternoon and evening's forecast is looking so unpredictable, we are making the call to move the music inside our backup location. Join us in the Capitol Theatre for the same blues lineup and times!
👉Seating inside the Capitol Theatre is somewhat limited in comparison to the Pedestrian Plaza, so come on down to shop and dine with our local businesses, then come find a place in the theatre!
📅 May 4th
⏰ 2:00-8:00 P.M.
📍The Capitol Theatre - 104 South Public Square

05/01/2024

Cora Mae Bryant

05/01/2024

05/01/2024

Happy Sweet Petunia Day! Cora Mae Bryant born May 1st 1926 in Newton County, GA

04/29/2024

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