Playlist: Beilharz Blues – Looking Backward (2023)/Looking Forward (1953)





Compiled by Trevor Hogan, Christopher Robbins, and Sian Supski

40 songs featuring some of Peter Beilharz’s favourite guitarists

Spotify playlist here


  1. Memphis Minnie ‘When the Levee Breaks’
  2. Lightnin’ Hopkins ‘Little Sister’s Boogie’
  3. Amos Milburn (with Eiden McIntosh on guitar) ‘Bad, Bad Whiskey’
  4. John Lee Hooker ‘Hasting Street Blues’
  5. Sister Rosetta Tharpe ‘Strange Things Happening Every Day’
  6. Hubert Sumlin ‘Ever Time I Get to Drinking’
  7. Bo Diddley ‘Who Do You Love’
  8. BB King ‘Everyday I Have the Blues’
  9. Freddie King ‘Hideaway’
  10. Albert King ‘Born Under a Bad Sign’
  11. Junior Wells & Buddy Guy ‘Snatch It Back and Hold It’
  12. Muddy Waters with Johnny Winter ‘Cross-Eyed Cat’
  13. Mike Bloomfield (with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) ‘East-West’

  1. ‘32:20’  (one song, four versions):
  1. Robert Johnson
  2. Bob Dylan
  3. John Hammond Jnr
  4. Chain

  1. Mick Taylor/Keith Richards – Rolling Stones: ‘Can’t You Hear Me Knocking’
  2. Jimi Hendrix ‘Little Wing’
  3. Jimi Hendrix ‘The Wind Cries Mary’
  4. Peter Green (with Fleetwood Mac) – ‘Oh Well, Pt. 1’
  5. Peter Green (with Fleetwood Mac) ‘Without You’
  6. Jeff Beck (Jeff Beck Group) ‘Beck’s Bolero’
  7. Jeff Beck ‘Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers’
  8. Jimmy Page (with The Yardbirds) ‘White Summer’
  9. Jimmy Page (with Led Zeppelin) ‘Communication Breakdown’
  10.  Eric Clapton (With John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers) ‘Have You Heard’
  11. Eric Clapton (with Cream) ‘White Room’
  12. Eric Clapton (with Duane Allman) ‘Mean Old World’
  13. Duane Allman (with Dicky Betts and The Allman Brothers Band) ‘Statesboro Blues’
  14. Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal (Rising Sons) ‘If the River was Whiskey’
  15. Stevie Ray Vaughan ‘Love Struck Baby’  
  16. Roy Buchanan ‘Wayfaring Pilgrim’
  17. Debbie Davies ‘Blue and Lonesome’
  18. Dan Auerbach (with The Black Keys) ‘Nobody but You’
  19. Tedeschi-Trucks Band (Susan and Derek) ‘Anyhow’
  20. Lobby Loyde and the Coloured Balls ‘Working Man’s Boogie’
  21. Dave Hole ‘Berwick Road’
  22. Fiona Boyes ‘Party at Reds’
  23. Collard Greens and Gravy ‘Worried Now’
  24. Chris Wilson (with Shane O’Mara) ‘Landlocked’
  25. Bonnie Raitt ‘Can’t Find My Way Home’ (live with Lowell George and John Hammond jr)
  26. Gary Clark Jr – ‘When My Train Pulls In’

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