Playlist for thursday June 3rd 2010

I bought an old magnavox stereo console and cleaned it up and got it in good playing condition. I've been taking some of KRVM's old blues records home and ejoying getting to listen some great classic blues. You just can't dupicate the deep rich sound quality that you get with records.
I started this morning's show off with a great version of I'd rather go blind from the Queen of the blues herself Koko Taylor and that kind of set the tone for this morning show which was very heavy to Chicago blues, and you can't go wrong with that. Speaking of blues Royalty we had Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and his band in town a few weeks ago for a great performance, giving the crowd a wonderful taste of Chicago blues done by a couple of the guys that helped create it. Bob Stroger is the bass player in Willie "Big Eyes" band and he is one of the best! As he put it "He is the blues". He's played with just about any great Chicago blues artist you can think of, and he along with the late Willie Kent and Willie Dixon have helped to forge the great Chicago blues syle. Bob Stroger is good enough that he could have stole the show, but like the great bass player he is he knows his role is to lay down the bottom and help hold the band together. I got to tell you Bob Stroger and drummer James Mayes laid down one of the tightest rythem sections you'll hear anywhere. With that said, I thought it would be fun to do a show that featured Bob Stroger and some of the people that he's played with through the years. So I threw about 17 songs with that theme into the middle of this mornings show.

Koko Taylor / I'd rather go blind
Eric Lindell / Lay back down
Toni Price / Poor Little Fool
Fenton Robinson / Stormy Monday
Sean Costello / All yor love
Big Foot John / Cold, cold rainy day
Leroy Pierson / Long lonesome road
Leroy Pierson / Mole's moan
Otis Rush / Rainy night in Georgia
Luther "Houserocker" Johnson / Little car blues
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith & Pinetop Perkins / Cut that out
Carey Bell / Heartaches & pain
Big Leon Brooks / Sugar Mama
Aaron Moore / Just let me love you
Memphis Slim / Lend me your love
Billy Boy Arnold / Love me baby
Mark Hummel / Out on a limb
Otis Rush / Cold day in hell
Jimmy Rogers / Why'd you do it
Pinetop Perkins / Anna Lee
Snooky Pryor / Slow down baby
Eddie C Cambell / Poision Ivy
Steve Freund / Hung down head
James Wheeler / Weaker sex
Big Bill Morganfield / Cryin' Days
Ken Saydak / Watch the river flow
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith & Pinetop Perkins / I feel good
Albert Castigila / Catfish
Eric Lindell / I got a girl

Playlist for Thursday May 27th 2010

Except for the opening song from Karen Lovely I startd the show featuring Austin TX. blues artists. I had planned to feature a lot more Austin area musicians but I got a little distracted and somehow wound up in Chicago (not that that's a bad thing) and Louisiana by way of Memphis. Lost? me too. Long story short, it doesn't matter who it is or where they're from as long as it moves you and makes you feel good.

Karen Lovely / Blues is my business
WC Clark / Got me where you want me
Doyle Bramhall / Bird nest on the ground
Gary Primach / Jenny Brown
Lavelle White / Mississippi is my home
Angela Strehli / Say it's not so
Studebaker John & The Hawks / Flame of desire
Jamie Wood / High Time
Di Ann Price / Tonight's the night
Earl Hooker / Blue Guitar
Muddy Waters / She moves me
Muddy Waters / Stuff you got to watch
Little Walter / Mellow down easy
Jimmy Rogers / Blue & Lonesome
Rod Piazza / Soul Monster
Stringbean / Couldn't stay away
Hoo Doo Kings / I've been mistreated
Raful Neal / Call me baby
Smokin' Joe Kubek / In one hand and out the other
Smokin' Joe Kubek / Got you out of my blood
Julie Black / Blues in me blood
King Curtis / Summer Dream
Janiva Magness / Bad Blood
Bettye Lavette / It don't come easy
Bettye Lavette / Nights in white satin
Stringbean / How could I be so stupid
Duke Robillard / Alimony blues
Magic Sam / I need you so bad
Junior Wells / Use me
Canned Heat / Oh Baby
Karen Lovely / Sunny Weather
King Curtis / Soul Serenade

Playlist for thursday May 20th 2010

I started this morning off with three guys named brown, and that didn't include Gatemouth or Roy. I guess I could have kept the string going and even included the great Ruth Brown in the mix, but I didn't feel inspired to do so. Hey a guy could do an entire show just using the last names of Brown, King Johnson and Taylor. Maybe another time.

Charles Brown / These Blues
Mel Brown / Woman Wanted
Nappy Brown / Every Shut Eye Ain't Sleeping
John Hammond / Clap Hands
Big Walter Horton & Carey Bell / Christine
Koko Taylor / Don't Go No Further
Albert King / Down the Road I Go
David Egan & Jennifer Nicely / If Thats What It Is
David Egan / Bourbon in My Dixie Cup
David Bromberg / Midnight Hour Blues
BB King & Eric Clapton / Help the Poor
Shemikia Copeland / Born a Penny
Ronnie Earl & Kim Wilson / I Smell Trouble
James Cotton / Blow Wind Blow
Johnny Adams / Half Awake
Lightnin' Hopkins / Everything Happens to Me
Lightnin' Hopkins / Broken Hearted Blues
Jo Ann Kelly / What's the Matter
Robert Cray / Smoking Gun
Albert Collins / The Highway is Like a Woman
Snooky Pryor / You Set Me Free
Robert Cray / Bad Influence
BB King & Mark Knoffler / All Over Again
Johnnie Johnson / Baby What's Wrong
Johnny Winter / Bad Girl Blues
Delta Moon / Stuck in Carolina
Steve Freund / My Life is Changing
Studebaker John & The Hawks / Everyday

Playlist for Thursday April 29th 2010

Toby Walker / 100 reasons to sing the blues
Toby Walker / Should have been me
Gene Taylor / Sugar Bee
DK Stewart / Eyes keep me in trouble
Muddy Waters / Elevate me mama
Muddy Waters / So glad I'm living
Big Time Sarah / Cadillac assembly line
Jimmy "Primetime" Smith / Killer Joe
Ken Syadak / My soul
Javina Magness / Walkin' in the sun
Professer Longhair / Walk your blues away
Professer Longhair / Cry to me
Cepas & Wiggins / Going down the road feeling bad
Al Rivers / I wanna be your man
Adam & Stilwagon / Biscuts & gravy
Anders Osborn / Echos of my sins
William Clarke / Soon Forgotten
Howlin' Wolf / Tell me what I've done wrong
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith / World in an uproar
Sonny Boy Williamson / My younger days
Terry Evans / Uphill climb to the bottom
Paul Delay / Life's Highway
Adam & Stilwagon / Feets too big
Albert King / Cold feet
Albert King / Cold women warm heart
Missy Anderson / I can't stand the rain
Kirk Fletcher / Natural Anthem
Henry Cooper / Automatic trouble
Super Chickan / Could have been me
Cee Cee James / Love makes change
Cee Cee James / White picket fence

Playlist for Thursday April 22nd 2010

Big John Wrencher / Lonesome in my cabin
Eddie Taylor Jr. / Stop breaking down
Junior Walker / Drivin' wheel
Motor City Pioneers / Making up for lost time
John Hammond / Everythings gonna be alright
Michael Bloomfield / It takes time
Joan Armatrading / Mama Papa
T-Bone Walker / Everyday I have the blues
Matt "Guitar" Murphy / Ungrateful woman
Lowell Fulson / Change of heart
BB King / Feeding the rock
Robin Rogers / Come on in this house
Junior Wells / Good morning little schoolgirl
Gatemouth Brown / Good looking woman
Darrel Nulisch / Lyla Tove (Good night)
Darrel Nulisch / Lonely man
Earl Hooker & Andrew Odem / You don't love me
Robben Ford & Michael Landau / Where the wind blows
Albert Collins / Cash Talkin' (Workin' mans blues)
Janiva Magness / Weeds like us
Janiva Magness / End of our road
Randy McDonald / Yard sale
Lloyd Glenn / Travlin' time
Johnny Adams / Going out of my mind sale
Ruth Brown / Cabbage head
Luther Allison / Ragedy and dirty
Rusty Zinn / sad and lonesome day
George "Harmonica" Smith / Going down slow
John Mayall / Movin' & grovin' blues
Strangetones / Mama makes more
Big John Wrencher / Honeydripper

Playlist for Thursday April 15th 2010

This mornings show was a nice mix of mostly up-tempo songs featuring a few blues songs that had a nice jazz feel to them . I thought a couple highlights of todays show were Lisa Mills doing Jimmy Hall's "Keep on Smiling", from her "Tempered with Fire" CD and Jimmy Hall doing the title track on his very fine "Rendezvous with the Blues". I'm also enjoying Jimmy Thackery's new live release and I played "Daze in May" from that CD. Also worth noting is Kirk Fletcher and Coco Montoya have new CD's out. They both sound great and I'm looking foward to playimg them both a whole bunch.

Taj Mahal / Dhow Countries
Charlie Musselwhite / Where have all the good times gone
Spencer Bohren / Look down the road
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee / People get ready
Otis Spann / Moon Blues
Eddy "Cleanhead" Vinson / Things aint what they used to be
Roy Milton / Early in the morning
Little Charlie & The Nightcats / Money must think I'm broke
Finis Tasby / Baby please
Buddy Guy / One room country shack
Sunnyland Slim / Baby how long
Miranda Louise / Who do you think you're fooling now
James Cotton / Negitive 10-40
Dave Specter & Steve Freund / Too hot at home
Lisa Mills / Keep on smiling
Jimmy Hall / Rendezvous with the blues
Freddy King / I'm Ready
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee / Bring it on home
Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne / Thin line
Kirk Fletcher / Found Love
Alvin Youngblood Hart / Jinx blues
Robert Cray / 10-40 Blues
Coco Montoya / I want it all back
Sandra Hall / Ask me no questions
Sean Costello / Low-Life blues
Jimmy Tackery / Daze in May
Little Milton / Same Old Blues
Kirk Fletcher / Natural Athem
Dave Specter & Steve Freund / Adrienne

Playlist for ThursdayApril 8th 2010

It seems I'm always playing an albums title track during the course of a usual Thusday morning blues show. So I thought "wouldn't it be kind of cool and maybe a little unique to play an entire show featuring nothing but title tracks"? As it turns out, it's not that imaginative since roughly a third of our blues library is CDs that feature a song on the album that is also the title of the album as well. So truthfully I could do numerous shows that feature title tracks and cover a lot of ground. A nice thing about doing a show this way is that it led me to play songs that I might not play otherwise. Overall I'd say it was a great experience and it turned out to be a pretty good show (if I do say so myself) and a lot of fun.

Cathy Lemons Band / Dark Road
James Cotton / Mighty Long Time
Marcia Ball / Blue House
John Mooney / All I Want
Bryan Lee / Crawfish Lady
RJ Mischo / West Wind Blowing
Eden Brent / Mississippi Number One
Shakey Jake Harris / Mouth Harp Blues
Robert Cray / Who's Been Talking
Memphis Slim / The Come Back
Pee Wee Crayton / The Things I Used To Do
Louis Myers / I'm a Southern Man
Michael Burks / I Smell Smoke
Lurri Bell / Blues Had a Baby
Janiva Magness / Blues Ain't Pretty
Paul Delay / Nice and Strong
Rod Piazza / Tough and Tender
Nathan James / This Road is Mine
Ray Bonniville / Roll It Down
Michael Osborn / What Goes Around
Johnny B Moore / Rockin' In the Same Old Boat
James Harman / Lonesome Moon Trance
Deborah Coleman / Soft Place to Fall
Paul Rishell & Annie Raines / Moving to the Country
John Cambelljohn / Weight of the World
Magic Slim / Highway is My Home
James "Thunderbird" Davis / It's Checkout Time