Highway 61 takes us to Chicago this week, to the Maxwell Street Market that was a blues center for years, now torn down but well documented in a film called And This Is Free in 1964, with Maxwell Street Market performances by Robert Nighthawk, Big Mojo Elem, Carey Bell, Big John Wrencher, Johnny Young, Arvella Gray, Blind James Brewer, and Fanny Brewer.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
MAXWELL STREET MARKET
HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 43
Scott Barretta, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, July 26, 2008 [18327]
Robert Nighthawk: Annie Lee >
Robert Nighthawk: Sweet Black Angel
Big Mojo Elem: Mama Talk to Your Daughter
Carey Bell: I’m Ready
Big John Wrencher: Can’t Hold Out Much Longer
Big John Wrencher: Lucille
Carey Bell: Cruisin’ in a Cadillac
Johnny Young: The Sun Is Shining
Johnny Young: All I Want For My Breakfast
Robert Nighthawk: Cheating & Lying Blues
Arvella Gray: There’s More Pretty Girls Than One
Blind James Brewer: Hair Like Drops of Rain
Fanny Brewer: I Shall Overcome
Robert Nighthawk: Honky Tonk
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by Scott Barretta for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced & recorded by Joe Yorke at the University of Mississippi
Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
© 2008, 2018 Scott Barretta. Used with permission.