Blues & Music After Hours with Famous Coachman 02

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
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Blues & Music After Hours with Famous Coachman 02
WDET-FM, Detroit, circa 1990-91 [FCVV-0008]

Famous Coachman was one of Detroit’s leading blues disc jockeys from the mid-1970s until his death near the end of the 20th century, hosting and producing his Saturday night Blues After Hours show from 2:00-5:00 am and then adding a gospel segment and going from 2:00 until 6:30 or 7:00 am with Blues & Music After Hours on WDET-FM, Public Radio in Detroit. I hosted the show before Coachman from midnight to 2:00 am during 1989-91 and became very good friends with the veteran deejay, record man and blues promoter, the proprietor of Coachman’s Records at 9222 Charlevoix on the far east side of the city. One of his steady listeners, “DJ in Mt. Clemens,” contacted me and then sent a batch of Coachman cassettes he’d taped off the air in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Mike Boulan converted them to digital sound files at No Cover Studio and I started editing them into one-hour episodes for broadcast on Radio Free Amsterdam, of which this is the second installment with music by Erskine Hawkins, Eddie Burns, A.C. Reed, Joe Hunter, Little Milton, Otis Rush, Lynn White, Jimmy Forrest, Dorothy Moore, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Denise LaSalle, Albert Collins, the Butler Twins, Little Joe Blue, Willie D. Warren, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

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[01] Famous Coachman Intro, ID & Comments over Erskine Hawkins: After Hours >
[02] Famous Coachman Conversation with John Sinclair (July 1991)
[03] Eddie Burns: Detroit (fragment)
[04] Famous Coachman Comments
[05] A.C. Reed: I’m in the Wrong Business
[06] Famous Coachman Comments over >
[07] Joe Hunter: After Hours
[08] Famous Coachman Comments
[09] Little Milton: The Blues Is Alright
[10] Famous Coachman Comments
[11] Otis Rush: I’m a Fool for You (fragment)
[12] Lynn White: Blues in My Bedroom
[13] Famous Coachman Comments over Jimmy Forrest: Night Train
[14] Famous Coachman Comments
[15] Dorothy Moore: Talk to Me
[16] Famous Coachman Comments
[17] Bobby “Blue” Bland: Stormy Monday
[18] Denise LaSalle: If You Can’t Do Me Right
[19] Famous Coachman Comments
[20] Albert Collins: Winter in Chicago
[21] Famous Coachman Comments over After Hours
[22] Famous Coachman Comments
[23] Butler Twins: Long Distance Love
[24] Famous Coachman Comments
[25] Little Joe Blue: You Got My Nose to the Grindstone
[26] Famous Coachman Comments
[27] Butler Twins: Butler Boogie
[28] Famous Coachman Comments
[29] Willie D. Warren: My Baby Loves to Boogie
[30] Famous Coachman Comments
[31] Closing Music: Sonny Boy Williamson: Fattening Frogs for Snakes

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by Famous Coachman for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced by Famous Coachman for WDET-FM, Detroit, circa 1990-91
WDET airchecks recorded to cassette by DJ of Mt. Clemens
Digital transfers by Mike Boulan at Straight Ahead Studio, Oak Park MI
Produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels
Special thanks to DJ of Mt. Clemens for sending the cassettes

© 2012 The John Sinclair Foundation

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