The Eastside Sound

Music for your Monday Afternoon

from the KBOO archive

 Doc Watson and Merle Watson in Concert

Reed College   -  February 14th, 1971 -  Portland, Oregon

1st Set

-Introduction  -Traveling Man  -Good Old Rough and Rowdy Ways  -Black Mountain Rag  -Going Down the Road Feeling Sad  -A'roving on a Winter's Night  -Georgie  -Open Up the Pearly Gates for Me  -The Streamlined Cannonball  -You Gonna Be Sorry For What You Done -Brown's Ferry Blues

2nd Set

 The women we heard on the show and linked below were all but lost until Rosetta Reitz, a feminist and jazz historian, started the record-label Rosetta Records. Brad talks about how the self-image of Blues as a male-dominated genre was shook up in 1979 when Rosetta re-released many of these women for the first time after having been lost in record collections and the public domain. Rosetta died in 2008. However, an unfortunate accident caused us to lose Brad's connection in the last minute of the interview.

1. Blue Lu Parker - "Don't You Feel My Leg"

  Today's Old Mole, hosted by Joe Clement shown to the left, features an ongoing discussion about the Egyptian revolution, a review of the film Biutiful, an article about the revolutionary arab spirit, and the almost forgotten women of blues and the jazz historian who rescued them.