Playlist for Tuesday 4/26/11

Celebrated the 98th birthday of the late great Albert King with a few of his tunes......

1. Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death
2. Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan- Blues At Sunrise
3. The Rolling Stones feat. Buddy Guy- Champagne & Reefer
4. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers feat. Mick Taylor- Blues For Lost Days
5. David Lindley & Wally Ingram- Cat Food Sandwiches
6. Junior Wells & Buddy Guy- Pleading the Blues
7. Sonny Boy Williamson- All My Love Is In Vain
8. Rory Block- Write Me A Few Of Your Lines
9. Bryan Lee- Blues Singer
10. Charlie Musselwhite & Jimmie Vaughan- Bad Boy
11. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers- Hoochie Coochie Man
12. Savanna Coen- The Thrill Is Gone
13. Billy Branch & Lurrie Bell- Don't Start Me To Talkin'
14. Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan- They Call It Stormy Monday
15. Shaun Murphy- It Feels Like Rain
16. Karen Lovely- Boom Boom
17. Karen Lovely- Never Felt No Blues
18. Fiona Boyes- The Good Lord Made You So
19. Jimmy Rogers- Blue & Lonesome
20. James Cotton Band- Mean Old World
21. John Primer- Change Your Evil Ways
22. Kenny Neal- It Hurts Me Too

Playlist for Tuesday 4/19/11

1. Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death
2. Back Alley Players- I've Got The Blues
3. Mike Bloomfield- Sweet Little Angel/Jelly Jelly
4. Eddie & Vaan Shaw- Me And My Boy
5. Lucky Peterson- Four Little Boys
6. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells- Help Me
7. Big Mama Thornton- Little Red Rooster
8. Big Mama Thornton- Gimme A Penny
9. Blue Times Blue- Bill's Blues
10. The Paul DeLay Band- Leave Me Alone
11. Big Head Blues Club- Last Fair Deal Gone Down
12. Billy Boy Arnold- Ten Million Dollars
13. Robin Rogers- Baby Bye Bye
14. Debbie Davies- Better Off With The Blues
15. Freddie King- Palace Of The King
16. Lurrie Bell- I've Got Papers On You Baby
17. Buddy Guy- Key Don't Fit
18. Hubert Sumlin- Iodine In My Coffee
19. Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm- Don't Just Sing The Blues
20. Lonnie Brooks- Stranger In My House
21. Gregg Allman- Floating Bridge
22. Luther Allison- I Need A Friend
23. Koko Taylor- Born Under A Bad Sign
24. David Jacobs-Strain- Traveling Riverside Blues
25. Larry McCray- Worried Down With The Blues

Playlist for Tuesday 4/12/11

Had a nice solid set of old school blues, featuring the tunes of birthday boy Hound Dog Taylor.

1. Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death
2. Gov't Mule- Worried Down With The Blues
3. Lucky Peterson- Brown Can't Be Bad
4. Luther Allison- Give Me Back My Wig
5. Son Seals- Sadie
6. Hubert Sumlin- Long Distance Call
7. Hubert Sumlin- I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love
8. James Cotton- Blues For Koko
9. Hound Dog Taylor- Gonna Sent You Back To Georgia
10. Big Head Blues Band feat. David "Honeyboy" Edwards- If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
11. Hound Dog Taylor- It Hurts Me Too
12. John Mayall- Force Of Nature
13. Charlie Musselwhite- Cadillac Women
14. Gregg Allman- Devil Got My Woman
15. Little Milton- My Dog And Me
16. Liz Mandeville- Life Sentence Of The Blues
17. Pamela Betti Band- Little By Little
18. Hound Dog Taylor- What'd I Say?
19. Tail Dragger- Baby Please Don't Go
20. Taj Mahal- Leaving Trunk
21. Taj Mahal- Lovin' In My Baby's Eyes
22. Buddy Guy- Done Got Old
23. B B King & Eric Clapton- Three O'Clock Blues
24. Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan- Match Box Blues
25. John Primer- Going To New York
26. Sultans of Swing- Lightning Strikes
27. Junior Wells- Worried Life Blues

Playlist for Tuesday 4/5/11

Felt like running a string of the old school stuff and never quit!......featured a couple by birthday boy Larry McCray...

1. Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death
2. John Lee Hooker- Boom Boom
3. John Lee Hooker- Red House
4. Muddy Waters- Deep Down In Florida
5. Muddy Waters- Bus Driver
6. Muddy Waters- I Want To Be Loved
7. Willie Dixon- Back Door Man
8. Junior Wells- Yonder Wall
9. Canned Heat- Little Wheel
10. Carey Bell- Five Long Years
11. James Cotton Blues Band feat. G E Smith- Blues In My Sleep
12. Mick Fleetwood Blues Band- Hole In My Shoe
13. Elmore James- Standing At The Crossroads
14. Buddy Guy- Sweet Black Angel
15. Lucky Peterson- I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
16. John Lee Hooker- Mr. Lucky
17. The Kinsey Report- Down In The Dungeon
18. Elvin Bishop & Little Smoky Smothers- Slow Down
19. B B King- The Thrill Is Gone
20. Big Head Blues Band feat. David "Honeyboy" Edwards & Charlie Musselwhite- Sweet Home Chicago
21. Bob Dylan- 32/20 Blues
22. Larry McCray- Blues Is My Business
23. Billy Branch & Lurrie Bell- Help Me
24. Willie Dixon- The Same Thing
25. Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland- Bring Your Fine Self Home
26. Magic Slim & The Teardrops- Crosseyed Cat
27. Larry McCray- Believe It

Playlist for Tuesday 3/29/11

Featured a few tunes from the wonderful Miss Karen Lovely, who will be headlining KRVM's Women In Blues program this Saturday night....if you can't make it, tune in at 7pm PST and hear the show at krvm.org.

1. Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death
2. Luther Allison- Cherry Red Wine
3. Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan & Hubert Sumlin- Killing Floor
4. Bill Rhoades & Alan Hager- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
5. Boz Scaggs feat. Duane Allman- Loan Me A Dime
6. Johnny Jenkins feat. Duane Allman- Rollin' Stone
7. John Primer- Look At Little Sister
8. James Cotton- Since I Met You Baby
9. Karen Lovely- Boom Boom
10. Big Mama Thornton- Unlucky Girl
11. Koko Taylor- That's Why I'm Crying
12. Roy Buchanan- Drowning On Dry Land
13. Big Walter Horton- Trouble In Mind
14. Pinetop Perkins- Blues After Hours
15. Gregg Allman- I Can't Be Satisfied
16. Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter & James Cotton- I Done Got Over It
17. Otis Rush- Cut You A Loose
18. Albert King- I'll Play the Blues For You
19. Lucky Peterson- Death Don't Have No Mercy
20. Henry Cooper- Baby Please
21. Karen Lovely- Never Felt No Blues
22. Karen Lovely- Rock Me
23. Fiona Boyes- High Cotton
24. The Blues Brothers- "B" Movie Boxcar Blues

Playlist for Tuesday 3/22/11

Played a bunch of straight up solid blues; concentrated on the music of blues great Pinetop Perkins who sadly passed away yesterday at the ripe old age of 97. Pinetop will certainly be missed.

1. Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death
2. Buddy Guy- Five Long Years
3. Lucky Peterson- Statesboro Blues
4. Johnny Jenkins- It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues
5. Little Milton- Right To Sing The Blues
6. B B King- Little By Little
7. Susan Tedeschi- Voodoo Woman
8. Ruth Brown- I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
9. Magic Slim & The Teardrops- Spider In My Stew
10. Gregg Allman- Floating Bridge
11. Pinetop Perkins- Got My Mojo Working
12. Lucky Peterson- Ask Me Nothing 'Bout The Blues
13. Pinetop Perkins- Since I Fell For You
14. Taj Mahal- Big Legged Mamas Are Back In Style Again
15. Koko Taylor- Blues Hotel
16. Big Mama Thornton- Ball n' Chain
17. Bryan Lee- Ain't Nobody's Bizness
18. Pinetop Perkins- Chicken Shack
19. John Primer- Double Trouble
20. Luther Allison- Cut You A-Loose
21. Billy Boy Arnold- Low Down Thing Or Two
22. Muddy Waters- Rock Me
23. Big Head Blues Club feat. B B King- Cross Road Blues
24. Omar Kent Dykes- Up Side Your Head
25. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Gonna Lay My Body Down
26. Pinetop Perkins feat. Elvin Bishop- How Long

Playlist for Tuesday 2/15/11

Continued with the "Two for Tuesday" theme--mixed up some old with some new. Also saluted Mr Lightnin' Hopkins on the occasion of what would have been his 99th birthday...

1. Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death
2. Luther Allison- The Thrill Is Gone
3. Luther Allison- Messin' With The Kid
4. Jimmy Johnson- Can't Go No Further
5. Jimmy Johnson- Dead Or Alive
6. James Cotton- Buried Alive In The Blues
7. James Cotton- Sad, Sad Day
8. B B King- Blues Before Sunrise
9. B B King- I Got Some Outside Help That I Don't Really Need
10. John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat- Sittin' Here Thinkin'
11. John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat- Peavine
12. Lightnin' Hopkins- Gotta Move
13. Lightnin' Hopkins- Everybody's Down On Me
14. The Fabulous Thunderbirds- Hard Knock
15. The Fabulous Thunderbirds- Paint It On
16. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells- Sweet Black Girl
17. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells- Cut You Loose
18. L A Blues Alliance- Death Letter Blues
19. L A Blues Alliance- Who's Been Talking
20. Etta James- You Can Leave Your Hat On
21. Etta James- Rock Me Baby
22. Koko Taylor- Gonna Buy Me A Mule
23. Koko Taylor- Black Rat
24. Susan Tedeschi- Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
25. Susan Tedeschi- It Hurts Me, Too
26. Roy Buchanan- I'm A Ram
27. Roy Buchanan- I'm Evil
28. Junior Wells- Ships On The Ocean
29. Junior Wells- Hound Dog