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Moo's Blues

Hum 1: A Cultural history of the blues

MUSIC ASSIGNMENTS

January 7: Robert Johnson, “Malted Milk”; Joe Bonamassa, “I Don’t Believe”

January 9: Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Texas Flood”; Eric Clapton, “Blues Before Sunrise”; Muddy Waters, “(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man”

January 14: Big Bill Broonzy, “Plow Hand Blues”; Texas Alexander, “Levee Camp Moan Blues”; Scrapper Blackwell, “Penal Farm Blues”

January 16: “Satisfied,”* “Mississippi Sounding Calls,”* “Roustabout Song,”* Louis Armstrong, “West End Blues,” and “St. James Infirmary”

January 23: Bessie Smith, “In the House Blues,” Ma Rainey, “Don’t Fish in my Sea,” Ethel Waters, “I’m No Man’s Mamma Now”

January 28: Lonnie Johnson, “Nothing But Trouble”; Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Match Box Blues”; Son House, “Death Letter”; Charley Patton, “Pony Blues”

January 30: Big Bill Broonzy, “Key to the Highway”; Sonny Boy Williamson, “Bring It On Home”; Memphis Minnie, “Me and My Chauffeur Blues”

February 4: Robert Johnson, “Terraplane Blues,”; “Me and the Devil Blues”; “Cross Road Blues”; “Hellhound on my Trail”; “Kind Hearted Woman”

February 6: Ali Farka Toure, “Penda Yoro”; Amadou and Miriam, “Mon Amour, Ma Cherie”; Baba Djan, “Sabari”

February 13: Jimmy Rogers, “Walkin’ By Myself”; Little Walter, “Juke”; Howlin’ Wolf, “Little Red Rooster”

February 20: Muddy Waters, “Can’t Be Satisfied”; “Rollin’ Stone”; “Long Distance Call”; “Mannish Boy”

February 25: Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti,” Chuck Berry, “Johnny B. Goode,” B.B. King, “Sweet Little Angel,” Albert King, “Born Under a Bad Sign”

February 27: Freddie King, “Have You Ever Loved a Woman”; T-Bone Walker, “Call It Stormy Monday”; Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Pride and Joy”

March 5: Mississippi John Hurt, “Richland Women Blues,” Mississippi Fred McDowell, “Baby Please Don’t Go,” Lightnin’ Hopkins, “Mojo Hand,” Cream, “Crossroads,” The Allman Brothers Band, “Statesboro Blues,” Hot Tuna, “Uncle Sam Blues”

March 10: Derek Trucks, “Death Letter”; Susan Tedeschi, “Friar’s Point”; Jonny Lang, “Matchbox”; Shemekia Copeland “My Kind of Guy”; Nick Moss and the Fliptops, “Check My Pulse”

March 12: Sugarhill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight”; Grandmaster Flash, “Turntable Mix: Flash Tears the Roof Off”; Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “The Message”; Public Enemy, “Bring the Noise”; Queen Latifah, “U.N.I.T.Y.”; Beastie Boys, “Eggman”

March 17: Son House, “Walking Blues”; Robert Johnson, “Walking Blues”; Bonnie Raitt, “Walking Blues”; Paul Butterfield, “New Walkin’ Blues”

*recommended but not required

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