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We've got blues mandolin, honkers and shouters and some deep southern gospel
17 Jan, 2021 | 1:01:05 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
In this week's Backbeat radio show we take a look behind the scenes at some of the writing and production work of Henry Glover who was responsible for countless blues, country and R&B records including some Canadian icons. We've also got blues mandolin, honkers and shouters and some deep southern gospel. Listeners can see the list at www.backbeatradio.com
17 Jan, 2021 | 1:01:05 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
In this week's Backbeat radio show we take a look behind the scenes at some of the writing and production work of Henry Glover who was responsible for countless blues, country and R&B records including some Canadian icons. We've also got blues mandolin, honkers and shouters and some deep southern gospel. Listeners can see the list at www.backbeatradio.com

10 Jan, 2021 | 1:00:27 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
This week we have everything from Art Neville New Orleans soul to the Velvets do-wop update of a New Orleans standard. In between there's The Louvin Bros., David Lindley, Molly Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and much more. Listeners can see the playlist at https://www.backbeatradio.com/.../playlists/january-10-2021.

03 Jan, 2021 | 1:00:21 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
Features great tracks by Big Maybelle, Joe Maphis, Bing Crosby and T.V. Slim. Listeners can see the full playlist at Backbeatradio.com

28 Dec, 2020 | 0:58:55 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
We've got Louis Jordan, Hard Pushin' Papa doing a Robert Johnson classic, Milton Brown, Howlin' Wolf, The Harmonizing Four - listeners can see the full playlist at backbeatradio.com

18 Dec, 2020 | 1:01:22 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
Ho Ho Ho it's time for the holiday edition of Backbeat starting with the best version of Jingle Bells ever I play the usual assortment of jazz, blues, country and gospel artists all doing Christmas/holiday/winter music, capped off with Mahalia Jackson's chilling original 1946 recording of Silent Night. Listeners can check out the playlist on backbeatradio.com

14 Dec, 2020 | 1:01:00 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
Got a few Irving Berlin tunes on Backbeat this week, a 1950s 'protest' song disguised as a novelty and some early Canadian pop. Listeners can view the playlist at www.backbeatradio.com

07 Dec, 2020 | 0:59:56 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
Among other things we get a history lesson from Louis Armstrong and Chuck Berry with conflicting views on how Venus de Milo lost her arms, a honky-tonk classic about bars and, of course, some gospel to round things out.

07 Dec, 2020 | 1:01:24 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
This show includes some Country and R&B genre-benders, what happened when rock 'n' roll came to Trinidad and a 1937 piece that (almost) needs an explicit lyrics warning. Listeners can see the playlist at backbeatradio.com

23 Nov, 2020 | 1:00:10 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
We have The Maddox Bros & Rose, Mahalia Jackson, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, new music from Toronto's Chris Bennett and much more. Listeners can see the playlist at Backbeatradio.com

16 Nov, 2020 | 1:00:51 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
Ella Fitzgerald with the Mills Bros. starts us off on our nursery rhymes set, plus we've got the Durham County Poets, gospel from The Dixieaires and the Carolina Kings, country, rockabilly, do-wop and a whole lot more. Listeners can check the playlist at Backbeatradio.com.

09 Nov, 2020 | 1:00:00 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
This Sunday's show includes the possible gospel roots of Sonny James' Young Love, the original version of Jimmy Jones' Handy Man (very different) plus a great Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges piece and music from Ken Tizzard.

02 Nov, 2020 | 1:01:20 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
We start off with a Sun rockabilly classic, a Wynonie Harris recording with Sun Ra on piano, a vocal-instrumental from The Mills Bros. and reggae from Toots & The Maytals. Lots of great Canadian music on this one too.

26 Oct, 2020 | 1:00:55 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
This week's show has 1930s and '40s songs about Rock & Roll, jazz on the bassoon, blues on the accordion and hear how the writer of a 1970s super hit interpreted his own song.

19 Oct, 2020 | 0:58:08 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
We have music from Chuck Berry and an under-appreciated country singer named Charlene Arthur, the original country recording of a blues classic and the Elvis impersonator who had a bigger hit with an Elvis song than Elvis did.

12 Oct, 2020 | 0:59:01 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
We have a gospel group that got tired of James Brown making secular covers of their gospel songs, so did a secular song - which James Brow covered, brilliantly. We hear the evolution of the country classic Sweet Dreams, an early Roy Orbison rocker, the delightful Boswell Sisters and much more.

05 Oct, 2020 | 0:59:38 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
This week we have music from Big Maybelle, Bill Monroe, Cab Calloway and the Cadillacs as well as a story how a song written by one of their members helped define Jamaican Ska.

01 Oct, 2020 | 0:58:51 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
This week's show features the story of an American who became a rock star in Europe at age 52 thanks to an obscure record he made 18 years earlier. Plus we have music from Leadbelly, Mahalia Jackson, Corb Lund, Louis Jordan and much more.

01 Oct, 2020 | 0:58:37 |
EN | Lorne VanSinclair | Backbeat
This week we start off with some nonsense from Louis Prima, a party song from Howlin' Wolf, gospel from The Trumpeteers plus some folk, Cajun, some hillbilly bop and a classic from Fats Waller