![]() They turned the lyrics around so much that original meaning of the title doesn’t make literal sense. Kicking volume 15 off with Piedmont bluesman Julius Daniels’ February 1927 recording of “Ninety-Nine Year Blues” (number 249 on the playlist) that’s followed by the version on Hot Tuna’s Burgers from 1972. This song provides symmetry, as the first song was Wynonie Harris’s “I Get a Thrill” (found in the Blues Roots on Thursday, March 16, 2017). King’s evergreen “The Thrill Is Gone” (number 372). Looks like Ed Parker did the same, closing out the playlist with Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson (Aleck “Rice” Miller), Nina Simone, the Rolling Stones, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, Cream capping it off with B.B. ![]() I try to save the best for last but that’s easy because it’s all best. I’m also taking requests-please let me know if you have a favorite I can do a little research on (or maybe I have, and can refer you to that one). The next Blues Roots will appear on Thursday, July 20, 2017, with a recap of all 15 volumes, and I’ll begin to do features on some of the other songs that I wasn’t able to get to first time around. There were more songs in his original list because there are some that he had recorded that I was unable to find on YouTube. The final volume of Ed Parker’s Yer Blues playlist is here, volume 15, with songs 349 to 372.
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