James Cotton
American harmonicist and singer-songwriterWikipedia
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Nov 3, 2026
Alec BaldwinHOST
as?
Todd RundgrenGUEST
Well, such as Ian and Sylvia and James Cotton.
Todd RundgrenGUEST
But the first project that I got put on was an artist called Jesse Winchester.
Todd RundgrenGUEST
And he was a conscientious objector who lived in Canada from whence the band came.
BullfrogHOST
And mostly, we keep it to ourselves, but today, here is who we have for you to listen to in the Bullfrogs Roadhouse Long Song Bracket.
BullfrogHOST
First up, you're going to get some money, Johnny Winter and James Cotton.
BullfrogHOST
And of course, tune number two is the Bullfrogs Roadhouse Long Song of the Week.
BullfrogHOST
And we're going to go with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood.
38 MINS LATER
BullfrogHOST
Friends, I'd like to thank you for hanging with us as we brought you this week's Bullfrogs Roadhouse Long Song Bracket here on Bullfrogs Roadhouse.
BullfrogHOST
You did get a bit of a heads up today with what we had planned for this week's Bullfrogs Roadhouse playlist, so let's get straight into it.
BullfrogHOST
Some classic Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter and James Cotton doing Muddy Boy.
BullfrogHOST
live that came from an album live in new york that only came out in 2023 so that is not that old froggers and the other week we played steve winwood with his solo version of voodoo child and we kept the steve winwood component going and we added eric clapton to the mix and And that version of Voodoo Child came from the duos live from Madison Square Garden.
Dick ShurmanGUEST
So I went up there with a friend and did buy some records.
Dick ShurmanGUEST
But when I got there at the counter, were Mike Bloomfield and Bob Kester from Delmark, and they were bragging to each other about the relative success of Magic Sam's West Side Soul and Pure Cotton by James Cotton, which Bloomfield had worked on.
Dick ShurmanGUEST
And I mean, to put it in some perspective, their bragging was Bloomfield was telling Bob that the Cotton album had sold 3,000 copies, and Bob said, oh, that's nothing.
Dick ShurmanGUEST
West Side Soul sold 4,000 copies.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
And I want to be clear about what Sun was at the start, because people forget Sun was a blues label.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
Rufus Thomas, Roscoe Gordon, Little Milton, James Cotton, Bobby Bland, Junior Parker.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
The label's first hit came in 1953 when Rufus Thomas, a Memphis disc jockey, recorded Bearcat, an answer record to Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
It went to number three on the rhythm and blues chart.
Matthew James DerzikHOST
The bass sounds good.
Matthew James DerzikHOST
James Cotton does a great job on the harp.
Matthew James DerzikHOST
And Johnny Winter is having the time of his life playing guitar, screaming randomly.
Matthew James DerzikHOST
He is in heaven on this song.
Jim SamariaHOST
that and name come on
Mark PlotnickHOST
top who i'm i'm glad i was able to see people like uh freddie pine top uh sam lay and and so forth um those i was young but i was able to get to the north side bars also james cotton is on harp bob margolin is on guitar bob knows uh our friend jerry portnoy played with money and uh So let's play two cuts from Hard Again, okay? Everybody seems to know what that title means.
Mark PlotnickHOST
We're going to play Walking Through the Park, and then we're going to play I Want to Be Loved, number two.
Mark PlotnickHOST
I'm not sure why it's called number two, but don't we all want to be loved, Jim? Yes, we do.
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Jim SamariaHOST
And for all you youngsters out there, if you never have seen Muddy Waters, which you probably haven't, his son, Mud Morganfield, is out there and playing all Muddy Waters music, and I highly suggest going to see him.
Mark PlotnickHOST
Yeah, it's the next best thing.
Mark PlotnickHOST
I also want you to know that incredible harmonica playing was James Cotton.
Mark PlotnickHOST
There's a documentary.
Sean BindleyHOST
Well, some of us at least.
Sean BindleyHOST
And previous to that, Harold Davenport with what sounds very much like his instrumental tribute to the great James Cotton, Night Creepin'.
Sean BindleyHOST
The young man's debut album, thanks to the Little Village Foundation, and Kit Anderson and the good folks at Greensland Studios, is called Young Row.
Sean BindleyHOST
Still to come, this week's classic album feature, Lazy Lester's 2001 Antones Records release, Blues Stop Knockin'.