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Here’s The WRFG Route 66 Playlist for Sunday, February 28, 2021
This week, Route 66 pays a special tribute to Gene Taylor, a master boogie-woogie piano player and a founding member of The Blasters. Taylor froze to death in his home in North Austin, Texas on February 20, 2021. The home had been without power for five days. According to Taylor’s roommate, “we both stayed in our own beds trying to stay warm. I came out of it OK, and he obviously didn’t.”
Editorial Comment: Taylor’s death was one of more than 70 fatalities linked to a collapse of the Texas power grid after the state was hit by a winter storm. The grid collapse was a man-made disaster caused by the state’s short-sighted energy
policies and refusal to prepare for extreme weather events linked to climate change.
You’ll find songs by Taylor throughout the show.
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
Honky-Tonk Train Blues
Gene Taylor
Gene Taylor 2003
Nite Life Boogie
Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy
Specialty Records 1947
Early in the Mornin’
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
Live From Austin, TX 2019
Desenroscandose
La Ruta Blues Band Primer
Tramo 2017
Don’t Leave Me Baby
T-Bone Walker
Black & White Records 1947
Rock House
Big Maybelle
Savoy Records 1957
Wooden Soldiers Swing
Eddie Chamblee
Coral Records 1952
FEATURE – LOUIS JORDAN: THE SOLO HITS FROM A TO Y – WEEK 19
G.I. Jive
Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five
Decca Records 1944
Jordan’s seventh song to appear the Billboard R&B charts, G.I. Jive was in the top five for 26 weeks including six weeks as number one following its debut in April of 1944.
Chicken Shack Boogie
James Harman & Gene Taylor Band
Live In Germany 2012
The Hucklebuck
Sean Costello
Live in Bremen 2007
This Joint’s Too Hip For Me
Betty Hall Jones
Capitol Records 1949
Tiny Strut
Bloodest Saxophone
Swing to Bop 2010
Oop-Pop-A-Da
Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
RCA Victor 1948
Stormy Monday
Johnny Rawls
Live in Europe 2020
A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO ON THE 93RD ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BIRTH
Born Antonie Dominique Domino, Jr. in New Orleans on February 26, 1928, Fats Domino was a pianist, singer, and songwriter who was a pioneer of rock’n’roll. He sold more than 65 million records and had 11 Top 10 hits between 1955 and 1960
All By Myself
Fats Domino
Imperial Records 1955
My Blue Heaven
Fats Domino
Imperial Records 1956
Going To The River
Chuck Willis
Okeh Records 1953
Ain’t The A Shame
Jerry Granelli w/ Robben Ford & Bill Frisell
Dance Hall 2017
Every Night About This Time
Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Joss Stone & Buddy Guy
Goin’ Home: a Tribute to Fats Domino 2007
I Hear You Knockin’
George Benson
Weekend In London 2020
I’m Walking
Fats Domino
Imperial Records 1957
Walking To New Orleans
Gene Taylor
Roadhouse Memories 2013
FATS DOMINO RESOURCES
biography @ wikipedia.org
discography @ discogs.com
overview @ allmusic.com
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
Little Boy
Igor Prado Band
Instrumentals, Vol.1 2010
Person to Person
Lynwood Slim
Hard to Kill 2014
Pay Attention Blues
Jeffrey P. Ross w/ Nick Curran
My Pleasure 2002
Call Before You Go Home
Memphis Slim & His House Rockers
United Records 1953
In the Dark
Shemekia Copeland
Uncivil War 2020
Shake Rattle And Roll
Gene’s Boogie
The Amos Garrett Doug Sahm Gene Taylor Band
Live in Japan 1991
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It)
Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Nine Lives 2005
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