Playlist for Tuesday 1/27/14

Played a couple to celebrate the life of Mr. Elmore James, King of the Slide guitar!! Ended up having a Two-for-Tuesday.....

1.      Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death    
2.      Junior Wells- Better Off With the Blues                                                                     
3.      Junior Wells- It Hurts Me Too    
4.      Sylvia Embry- Going Upstairs    
5.      Sylvia Embry- Please Let Me Stay    
6.      Lurrie Bell- I Feel So Good    
7.      Lurrie Bell- My Little Machine    
8.      Muddy Waters- She Moves Me    
9.      Muddy Waters- Trouble No More    
10.      Elmore James- Something Inside Me    
11.      Elmore James- Dust My Broom
12.      Duane Allman- Happily Married Man    
13.      Duane Allman- No Money Down
14.      The Sons of Blues- Have You Ever Loved A Woman?
15.      The Sons of Blues- Prisoner of the Blues    
16.      Magic Slim & The Teardrops- Someone Else is Steppin' In    
17.      Magic Slim & The Teardrops- Hard Luck Blues    
18.      Etta James- I'd Rather Go Blind    
19.      Etta James- Your Good Thing Is About to End    
20.      Jimmy Johnson- Your Turn To Cry    
21.      Jimmy Johnson- Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home
22.      John Lee Hooker- Dimples    
23.      John Lee Hooker- Ain't No Big Thing    
24.      Willie Dixon- Pain In My Heart    
25.      Willie Dixon- Walkin' The Blues    
26.      Luther Allison- The Sky Is Crying    
27.      Luther Allison- Help Me    
28.      Fleetwood Mac- I'm Worried
29.      Fleetwood Mac- I Got The Blues    

Playlist for Tuesday 1/20/2015

Whoa! Can you imagine Janis Joplin at 72 years old? Yesterday would have been her birthday, so we celebrated her music with a few classics....

1.      Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death
2.      Muddy Waters- Nineteen Years Old    
3.      John Primer & Bob Corritore- Going Back Home    
4.      Magic Slim & The Teardrops- Look Over Yonder's Wall    
5.      Dave Specter- Jefferson Stomp    
6.      Janis Joplin- One Good Man    
7.      Janis Joplin- Hesitation Blues    
8.      Bill Rhoades and the Party Kings- Early In The Morning    
9.      Charlie Musselwhite- Cadillac Women    
10.      Linsey Alexander- Too Old To Be A New Fool    
11.      Big Time Sarah- Little Red Rooster    
12.      Big Time Sarah- The Sky Is Crying    
13.      Hubert Sumlin- Come Home Baby    
14.      Koko Taylor- Let the Juke Joint Jump    
15.      Gary Clark, Jr.- Next Door Neighbor Blues    
16.      Kenny Neal & Billy Branch- Mannish Boy    
17.      Luther Allison- Give Me Back My Wig    
18.      Gov't Mule- Gonna Send You Back to Georgia    
19.      Junior Wells- Blues For Mayor Daley    
20.      Willie "Big Eyes" Smith- Can't Rest For Worry
21.      Ana Popovic- Blues For Ms. Pauline/Leave My Boy Alone
22.      Zora Young- Come On Home    
23.      Janis Joplin- What Good Can Drinkin' Do?    
24.      The Allman Brothers Band- Old Before My Time    

Playlist for Tuesday 1/6/15

Started off the new year with a soulful show full of hard biting blues, and a tip of the hat to harpmaster extrordinaire Kim Wilson who celebrated his 64th birthday today........

1.      Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death    
2.      Little Milton- Can't Quit You Baby    
3.      Mud Morganfield & Kim Wilson- Nineteen Years Old             
4.      The Fabulous Thunderbirds- Painted On    
5.      Delaney & Bonnie- Come In My Kitchen    
6.      Johnny Jenkins- Walk On Gilded Splinters    
7.      John Mayall- So Many Roads    
8.      Roy Buchanan- Delta Woman    
9.      Tinsley Ellis- Rockslide    
10.      Linsey Alexander- My Mama Gave Me the Blues    
11.      Ike Turner & The Kings Of Rhythm- Catfish Blues
12.      Shirley Johnson- As The Years Go Passing By    
13.      Ruth Brown- Too Little Too Late
14.      Ruth Brown- Good Day For The Blues
15.      Luther Allison- You're Gonna Make Me Cry    
16.      Magic Slim & The Teardrops- Spider In My Stew    
17.      Buddy Guy- Country Boy    
18.      Junior Wells- Goin' Home    
19.      Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite- Get Up!    
20.      John Lee Hooker- Just You and Me    
21.      Son Seals- Sadie    
22.      Michael Hill's Blues Mob- She's Gone    
23.      Pinetop Perkins- Gambling Blues
24.      Jim Liban- I Say What I Mean    

Playlist for Tuesday 12/30/14

Closed out the year with a nice selection of recordings that came out this year, both old and new....lots of great music came out in 2014, let's hope 2015 is just as sweet!!

1.     Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death
2.     The Rolling Stones- Champagne and Reefer    
3.      Jimmie Vaughan & Charlie Musselwhite- Bad Boy    
4.     Albert King- Blues Power    
5.      Magic Slim & The Teardrops- Love Somebody
6.      Gary Clark, Jr.- Three O'clock Blues    
7.      Magic Sam- It's All Your Fault Baby    
8.      Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues- Boom Boom    
9.      Dave Specter- This Time I'm Gone For Good    
10.      Jim Liban- Real Good Deal
11.      Tinsley Ellis- Kiss Of Death    
12.      Mississippi Heat- Come To Mama    
13.      Johnny Winter- Where Can You Be
14.      Linsey Alexander- Things Done Changed    
15.      Widespread Panic- Just Ain't Easy    
16.      John Primer & The Teardrops- You Can Make It If You Try             
17.      Billy Boy Arnold- Work Song    
18.      Luther Allison- Luther's Blues
19.      Muddy Waters- Sad Sad Day    
20.      The Allman Brothers Band- Done Somebody Wrong
21.      Alabama Mike- Death Letter Blues    
22.      Billy Branch & Lurrie Bell- Help Me    
23.      The Paul Delay Band- I'll Quit You Tomorrow    
24.      The Paul Delay Band- Remember Me    

Playlist for Tuesday 12/23/14

A nice selection of rockin' Blues, and a tribute tune to the finest Blues/Soul singer that ever came out of Great Britain, Mr. Joe Cocker.....

1.     Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death
2.      Little Milton Campbell- Merry Christmas Baby
3.     Joe Cocker- Let's Go Get Stoned    
4.      Buddy Guy- You Give Me Fever    
5.      John Primer & The Teardrops- Love In Vain    
6.      Mike Bloomfield- Medley: Sweet Little Angel/Jelly,Jelly         
7.      Carey Bell- Teardrops    
8.      Gregg Allman- Floating Bridge    
9.      Sharon Lewis- Mother Blues    
10.      Rory Block- 32/20 Blues    
11.      Taj Mahal- You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond    
12.      Bryan Lee- Evil Is Going On    
13.      Son Seals- Frigidaire Woman    
14.      Bob Margolin- Going Down Slow    
15.      Chuck Leavell- Evening Train
16.      Dave Specter- What Love Did to Me    
17.      Junior Wells- Little By Little    
18.      Albert King- Driving Wheel    
19.      Ron Hacker & The Hacksaws- Death Letter Blues    
20.      Steve Freund- A Dollar A Mile    
21.      B.B. King- Sweet Sixteen    
22.      Alan Wilson- On The Road Again    
23.      Alan Wilson- Mean Old World

Playlist for Tuesday 12/16/14

Had a nicely rounded set this morning....hard to believe, but we celebrated the 70th birthday of the ol' bluesman Mr. Keith Richards, who will hit that number on Thursday!!

1.      Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death    
2.      Etta James- Smokestack Lightning
3.      Etta James- Spoonful    
4.      Z Z Top- Just Got Back From Baby's    
5.      Luther Allison- Cat Blues    
6.      The Rolling Stones- Mannish Boy    
7.      John Lee Hooker- Boogie Chillen #2    
8.      Magic Slim and The Teardrops- Please Don't Dog Me    
9.      Magic Slim and The Teardrops- Still A Fool    
10.      Shawn Murphy- Gonna Buy Me a Mule    
11.      The Rolling Stones- You Got The Silver    
12.      Muddy Waters- Little Girl    
13.      The Tedeschi Trucks Band- Rollin' and Tumblin'    
14.      Fleetwood Mac- Every Day I Have the Blues
15.      Roy Buchanan- Pete's Blue    
16.      Dave Specter- This Time I'm Gone For Good    
17.      Linsey Alexander- I Got A Woman    
18.      Gary Clark, Jr.- Catfish Blues    
19.      Johnny Winter- Short Fat Fannie    
20.      Eddie Taylor- Trouble No More    
21.      Carey and Lurrie Bell- Low Down Dirty Shame    
22.      Jimmy Rogers- Big Boss Man    
23.      Big Head Blues Club- Last Fair Deal Gone Down      
24.      The Rolling Stones- You Gotta Move

Playlist for Tuesday 12/9/14

If you are a regular listener to my show you know I like to feature folks having a birthday....Every once in a while I luck out-- Tuesday will hit smack-dab on one of my hero's birthdays. Well, today was one of those days, and I had a gas!! Celebrated Gregg Allman's 67th  and what would have been Junior Wells' 80th birthday...Also, a very heartfelt tribute to the great Rolling Stones' saxophone player Bobby Keys who passed away last week........

1.      Doyle Bramhall ll & Erykah Badu- Oh Death    
2.      Lindsey Alexander- Too Old To Be A New Fool    
3.      Gregg Allman- Wasted Words
4.      Junior Wells- Trouble Don't Last Always    
5.      Junior Wells- Snatch It Back And Hold It    
6.      The Rolling Stones- You Can't Always Get What You Want    
7.      Lovie Lee- Nobody Knows My Troubles    
8.      Queen Sylvia Embry- Going Upstairs
9.      Junior Wells- I'm Gonna Move To Kansas City    
10.      Gary Clark, Jr.- If Trouble Was Money    
11.      Gregg Allman- Come and Go Blues    
12.      Koko Taylor- Get It While You Can    
13.      Lynn Jordan - Turtle Blues    
14.      Junior Wells - Today I Started Loving You Again    
15.      Lindsey Alexander- I Can't Quit You Baby    
16.      Carey Bell & Junior Wells- Second Hand Man    
17.      Jimmy Dawkins- Back To School    
18.      Junior Wells- Ships on the Ocean    
19.      Junior Wells- Stop Breakin' Down    
20.      Susan Tedeschi- Little By Little    
21.      Susan Tedeschi- Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean    
22.      Junior Wells- Help Me    
23.      Marty Sammon & Tom Holland- Cut You Loose    
24.      Luther Allison- You're Gonna Miss Me