The Breakaways: New Plymouth, 1966 (Dave Orams, Bryan Beauchamp, Midge Marsden and Dave Hurley) Photo: AudioCulture
New Zealand musicians embraced the blues boom of the 1960s, inspired mostly by British R&B groups emulating their heroes from the Southern United States and Chicago. In this episode of Blue Smoke, Chris Bourke celebrates our early advocates of the blues in Aotearoa.
More to explore:
- AudioCulture: The Blues Down Under, by Nick Bollinger
- AudioCulture: Good News Blues – New Zealand Zines of the Late 60s Blues Boom
- AudioCulture: Blues, a New Zealand playlist, by Nick Bollinger
- Midge Marsden in Session at RNZ
Music Details
Artist: Capel Hopkins
Track: Work Song
Composer: Sleepy John Estes
Album: In the Blue Vein
Label: Ode
Artist: Eddie Howell
Track: Kansas City (K C Loving)
Composer: Leiber-Stoller
45 rpm: Z45 1014
Label: Zodiac
Artist: Dinah Lee
Track: Hallelujah, I Love Him So
Composer: Ray Charles
Album: Introducing Dinah Lee
Label: Viking
Artist: La De Da’s
Track: I’ve Got My Mojo Working
Composer: Preston Foster & Muddy Waters
Album: La De Da’s
Label: Philips
Artist: Librettos
Track: My Babe
Composer: Willie Dixon
Album: Let’s Go With the Librettos
Label: EMI
Artist: Underdogs Blues Band
Track: Mary Anne
Composer: Murray Grindlay/Lou Rawnsley
Album: Underdogs Blues Band
Label: Zodiac
Artist: Val Murphy
Track: Fixing to Die
Composer: Bukka White
Album: A Time to Sing
Label: HMV
Artist: Dave Miller & the Byrds
Track: Help Me
Composer: Sonny Boy Williamson II
EP: Dave Miller & the Byrds
Label: Zodiac
Artist: The Breakaways
Track: I Ain’t Got You
Composer: Calvin Carter
Album: Album Two
Label: HMV
Artist: Lynne Pike
Track: See You Later Baby Blues
Composer: Pike
Album: In the Blue Vein
Label: Ode
Artist: Gutbucket (with Rick Bryant)
Track: Wild About You
Composer: Rick Bryant
Album: In the Blue Vein
Label: Ode
Artist: Midge Marsden
Track: Another Man Done Gone
Composer: Vera Hall
Album: The Midge Marsden Connection
Label: SDL Music
Artist: Bill Lake and the Right Mistake
Track: Grown Out of the Blues
Composer: Bill Lake
Album: As is Where Is
Label: Melrose Records
With thanks to AudioCulture NZ
