I’m writing about the Big Mo Pod Show from Big Mo’s blues show that was aired on November 7, 2025. I’m a little late, but it doesn’t matter that much because Big Mo will be recorded tonight (Friday, November 14, 2025). He’ll be at the Beaker Street Live show instead.
I think I might have dozed off while listening to his blues show last Friday night because I didn’t remember 3 songs from the list on the pod show:
Luther Dickinson & Datrian Johnson – “Sitting on Top of the World”
John “papa” Gros – “Crazy”
Dr. John – “Food For Thot”
Contributing to my memory loss is this: the 3 songs are not on the list of the songs played that night. So, I can’t say much about the discussion Big Mo and Noah had about the songs, based on what I don’t remember hearing. However, I can take it on faith in Big Mo’s extensive blues knowledge about his idea that the broad spectrum of American music has more blues in it than not.
On the other hand, I can say from reminiscence that I think I first heard Mississippi John Hurt’s song “Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor” many years ago when I first started listening to Friday night blues show. I tried to recall what I was doing in 1966 when Hurt died. I was just a kid.
While I can say I think I wasn’t listening to the blues, I think I can pick out popular songs from 1967 that tend to confirm Big Mo’s statement about most music having threads of the blues: “When a Man Loves a Woman” is just one example I think might fit.
I think I found a Wikipedia article about Mississippi John Hurt that might fit nicely with Big Mo saying he read the story about how Hurt was rediscovered back in the early 1960s. The detail of Avalon being his hometown is mentioned in the section “Rediscovery and death.” Just like Big Mo says, he wasn’t making it up.
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