This Song: Delbert McClinton // Carrie Rodriguez

Summary

Delbert McClinton has spent his life in music paying homage to American blues music. In this episode of This Song he tells the story of the first time he heard Big Joe Turner’s “Honey Hush” wafting out of a window. As he tells Taylor Wallace “The pulse was right where my heart beat.” From that moment on, he was driven to give everything he had to the blues

Then Carrie Rodriguez tells the story of the first time she heard Bill Frisell while touring in Europe. His version of “Cluck Old Hen” opened her up to the idea that traditional music need not be played in a traditional way, and helped inform her latest record “Lola.”

Listen to Delbert McClinton’s Studio 1A Session

Listen to Carrie Rodriguez and the Sacred Hearts Studio 1A session

Listen to Carrie Rodriguez’s MyKUTX Guest DJ session

Watch Carrie Rodriguez perform “Frio en al Alma” on Vuhaus

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