The Next Stop 207 - June 6, 2025

Sifting through the storied history of the blues, its influence on contemporary music, and its near-mythical key figures, this show feature's Ludwig Göransson's soundtrack to Sinners (2025). From Hip-hop samples and wailing Mississippi Delta masters in the first hour, to archival recordings with blues chants and songs performed with chirping cicadas and babbling brooks in the background in the second hour - we'll plunge into the blues in this densely packed episode.

 

Secret Garden	Susumu Yokota
Smokestack Twins	Ludwig Göransson
Honey	Moby
It's Bad You Know	R.L. Burnside
(Delta) Slim's Patch	Ludwig Göransson
2 Bit Blues	Kid Koala
Home	Tangle Eye
Back Door Man	The Doors
Travelling Riverside Blues (BBC Session)	Led Zeppelin
The Devil Went Down to Georgia	Jerry Reed
Grace, Bo and Lil' Lisa	Ludwig Göransson
Dark As the Night Cold As the Ground	Little Axe
Mystery Train	Junior Wells
Ella Speed	Leadbelly
Shrimp Boats	Jo Stafford
Turiya	Barn Owl
Old Corn Liquor	Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson
Goin' to Sit Down On the Banks of the River	Reverend Gary Davis
Hop Joint	Mississippi John Hurt
Black Sheep Blues	Pigmeat Terry
Hell Hound On My Trail	Robert Johnson
Black Night	Buddy Guy
Sink 'Em Low	Bessie Jones
Home On High	Walter Lee Hood and Parchman Inmates
Boogie	Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
I Know It's Wrong to Be Playin' the Blues	James Son Ford Thomas
Dust My Broom	James Son Ford Thomas
Ganges Delta Blues	Ry Cooder & Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Blues, No. 1	Loren Connors
Why You Here / Before the Sun Went Down (feat. Miles Caton) [from "Sinners" Score]	Ludwig Göransson