001.1994.001

Fri Apr 22 1994

41:56 - DAT Master, WAV and Mp3 on Server and Cloud

ABSTRACT: 00:26 Miner introduces Eleanor Ellis and her new cassette released on Marimac Records. Recorded with Oliver Ellis and Bill Ellis a guitar player from Ohio. Not family. 01:45 Ellis introduces a Leroy Carr / Scrapper Blackwell tune she will play entitled ‘Hustlers Blues’. 01.59 Demonstration - ‘Hustlers Blues’ 04:51 Ellis introduces a Chuck Berry song that is about a man chasing a hard to get woman. She mentions playing with a gospel player called Flora Molton who would request this song. Ellis dedicates the song ‘Nadine’ to her. 05:43 Demonstration – Ellis performs Chuck Berry’s ‘Nadine’ 09:15 Demonstration - Ellis plays a Big Joe Williams tune. 13:08 Ellis introduces a tune known informally known as ‘That Duck Song’ that her friend and Mississippi Blues musician Eugene Powell’s wife Lois would always request. 13:22 Demonstration – Ellis plays ‘That Duck Song’. 17:14 Ellis dedicates the next song to her friend Libby from Pascagoula, Mississippi. 17:57 Demonstration – Ellis plays ‘Going Back to the Delta’. 22:20 Ellis introduces her friend Hazel from the band Hazel and the Delta Ramblers, to accompany her on the Mandolin. They discuss a humorous driving incident that happened to them, whilst Ellis tunes her guitar. They talk about their twenty three year old relationship. 26:14 Demonstration – Ellis and Hazel play ‘Stop and Listen’. 29:25 Demonstration - Ellis and Hazel play ‘Worried Blues’. 33:43 Ellis introduces a Memphis Minnie tune called ‘What’s the Matter with the Mill?’ She invites audience participation with the answer that it ‘...done broke down’. 34:20 Demonstration - Ellis and Hazel play ‘What’s the Matter with the Mill?’ 39:04 Demonstration – Ellis plays ‘In My Girlish Days’ by Memphis Minnie. 41:56 End

Eleanor Ellis. Allison Miner introducing.

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