Backbeat chugs along this week with music by Wynonie Harris, The Boswell Sisters, Barbara Lynn and a rockabilly icon who somehow got the nickname Sleepy. See the picture to figure out why. Big Fancy gives us some classic country they don't make any more. We celebrate session players like Mickey Baker, Al Casey and Floyd Cramer. We'll also hear unusual music from a Jamaican artist who re-located to Chicago in the 1950s
Artist - Title Year Wynonie Harris - Down Boy Down 1954 The Sultans - Boppin' With The Mambo 1954 Big Fancy & The Shiddy Cowboys - Forgotten But Not Gone 2024 Bar X Cowboys - When Mama Goes Out The Maid Comes In 1941 The Boswell Sisters - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 1932 The Landfordaires - Trouble of This World 1949 Mercy Dee Walton - One Room Country Shack 1952 The Emperor - Tough De Times 1957 Sleepy LaBeef - All The Time 1956 Doc Bagby - Dumplins 1957 Barbara Lynn - Stranger 1965 Badeaux & The Louisiana Aces - The Back Door 1962 The Cats And The Fiddle - The New Look Blues 1948 Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson - John Hardy Was A Desparate Little Man 1967 Sister Wynona Carr with Brother Joe May - I See Jesus 1950 Lil Green - I Won't Sell My Love 1941 Jean Shepard - Got You on My Mind 1961 Joe D. Johnson - Rattlesnake Daddy 1963 The Midnighters - Let 'Em Roll 1957 Jesse Allen - Goodbye Blues 1958 Artie Shaw Gramercy Five - Dr Livingstone I Persume 1940