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01/18/2024

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01/16/2024

Here's the playlist from Sunday, January 7th.
Victoria Spivey- Black Snake Blues (Live in Europe on the American Folk Blues Festival Tour, 1963)
Blind Lemon Jefferson- Black Snake Moan
Texas Alexander- Penitentiary Moan Blues
Son House- Death Letter Blues (Live television session, 1967)
Joe Cocker- The Letter (Live at the Fillmore East, 3/28/70)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble with Johnny Copeland- Look at Little Sister (Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 7/16/85)
Shemekia Copeland- Never Going Back to Memphis (Live at the Funky Biscuit, Boca Raton, FL, 5/5/23)
Johnny Winter- Highway 61 Revisited (Live in Central Park, New York City, 7/27/80)
James “Son” Thomas- 61 Highway Blues
John Lee Ho**er- Highway Blues
Big Joe Williams- 49 Highway Blues
Howlin' Wolf- Highway 49 (Live at the Washington D.C. Blues Festival, 11/6/70)
Son Seals- Call My Job (Live at the Wise Fools Pub, Chicago, 1978)
John Lee Ho**er- Lost My Job
Ramblin' Thomas & the Dallas Blues Singers- No Job Blues
Buddy Guy- Five Long Years (Live at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, 9/25/94)
Arc Angels- Shape I'm In
Free- Trouble on Double Time
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Double Trouble
The Elvin Bishop Group- So Fine
Johnny Shines- No Name Blues
Mississippi Fred McDowell- Worried Blues (Live at the Gaslight, New York City, 11/5/71)
Jorma Kaukonen- Death Don't Have No Mercy (Live at Merlefest, Wilkes Community College, Wilkesboro, North Carolina, 4/26/08)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Merle Travis- I Am a Pilgrim
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Walking By Myself (Live at the Fenway Theater, Boston, 12/10/71)
John Lee Ho**er- Boom Boom (Live on the Blues Brothers Set, 1979)
Wynona Carr- What Do You Know (About Love)
Howlin' Wolf with Jeffrey Carp, Hubert Sumlin, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts- Highway 49 (Olympic Studios, London, 5/6/70)
Taste- Eat My Words
John Lee Ho**er- Kick Hit 4 Hit Kix You (Blues for Jimi and Janis)
Junior Kimbrough- Leave Her Alone
AC/DC- Night Prowler
Buddy Moss- Prowlin' Gambler Blues
Gov't Mule with Chuck Leavell- Gambler's Roll (Live at the Roxy, Atlanta, 12/31/98)
Jeff Beck Group- The Hangman's Knee
Jimi Hendrix with Curtis Knight- Wha Wha
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (Live in Texas, July 1986)
John Mayall- Harp Man
Blind Blake- Hey Hey Daddy Blues
Victoria Spivey- How Do They Do It That Way

01/14/2024

No show today due to the weather. I'll be live next Sunday at 5.

01/13/2024

Here's the playlist from Sunday, December 31st.
Lightnin' Hopkins- Happy New Year
Lonnie Johnson- New Year's Blues
The Two Charlies (Charley Jordan and Charlie Manson)- Happy New Year Blues
Smokey Hogg- New Year's Eve Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Happy New Year's Blues (Live at the Fox Theatre, Atlanta, 12/31/86)
Albert King- As the Years Go Passing By
Noah Lewis Jug Band- New Minglewood Blues
Grateful Dead- New New Minglewood Blues
Eric Lindell- Lay Back Down
The Meters- Ease Back
Blind Boy Fuller- Heart Ease Blues
John Lee Ho**er- Heart Trouble Blues
Wanda Jackson- Heart Trouble
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram- Trouble
The Allman Brothers Band- Trouble No More (Live at the Fillmore West, 1/31/71)
Big Joe Turner- Boogie Woogie Country Girl
B.B. King- Country Girl
The Rolling Stones- Country Honk
Hank Williams- H***y Tonk Blues (Demo 1947)
Albert King- H***y Tonk Woman
Ten Years After- Stoned Woman
Big Head Todd and the Monsters- It's Alright
The Allman Brothers Band- Whipping Post (Live at the Fillmore East, 6/27/71)
The Band of Heathens- Hurricane
Dan Melchior- New Pair of Trousers Blues
Johnny Winter- Ain't Nothing to Me
Rag’n’Bone Man- Human
The McCoys- Human Ball Blues
Ry Cooder- Cherry Ball Blues
Tab Benoit- Cherry Tree Blues
The Paul deLay Band feat. David Vest- Try Not to Kill Me (Live at the Triple Door, Seattle, 2006)
The Paul deLay Band - Fourteen Dollars in the Bank
Playing for Change Band with Keb' Mo', Roberto Luci and Chris Pierce- Walking Blues
The Blues Brothers- Shot Gun Blues (Live at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, 9/9/78)
Howlin' Wolf- Forty-Four
John Mayall with Mick Taylor and Sugarcane Harris- Full Speed Ahead
J. J. Cale- One Step Ahead of the Blues
The White Stripes- 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues
John Lee Ho**er- Tupelo Blues
Elvis Presley- Big Boss Man
Jimmy Reed- Take Out Some Insurance
Sonny Boy Williamson II- Insurance Man Blues
Edgar Winter with Kenny Wayne Shepherd and John McFee- Highway 61 Revisited
B.B. King & Bobby Bland- I Like to Live the Love (Live at Western Recorders Studio 1, Hollywood, 1974)
Ten Years After- Bad Scene
Jimi Hendrix- Red House (Live at the Isle of Wight, 8/31/70)
Blind Lemon Jefferson- Happy New Year Blues

01/13/2024

Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan, two of my heroes.

01/12/2024

Here's the playlist from Sunday, December 24th.
Motörhead- Hoochie Coochie Man (Live at the Manchester Apollo, 6/10/83)
Howlin' Wolf- Back Door Man (1969 Version)
Cactus- Rumblin' Man
Link Wray- Studio Blues
Lynyrd Skynyrd- I Know a Little
Lenny Breau- Studio Blues
Little Walter- You Better Watch Yourself
Fleetwood Mac- Watch Out
Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield- One Way Out (Live at the Fillmore East, 12/13/68)
Rita Coolidge- Out of the Blues
Motörhead- I'm Your Witchdoctor
Memphis Minnie- Doctor, Doctor Blues
Otis Spann- Doctor Blues
Casey Bill Weldon- Lady Doctor Blues
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- The Wind Cries Mary
Leroy Carr- Christmas in Jail (Ain't That a Pain)
Big Maceo- County Jail Blues
David Allan Coe- Buckstone County Blues
Rory Gallagher- Going to My Hometown (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, 1/29/77)
John Lee Ho**er and the Groundhogs- I'm Leaving (Live on the Beat Room, BBC, 10/5/64)
JD McPherson- Socks
El Watson- One Sock Blues
B.B. King- One Shoe Blues
Bo Carter- Old Shoe Blues
Fleetwood Mac- Madison Blues (Live at the Boston Tea Party, February 1970)
Motörhead- Boogeyman
Redbone- The Witch Queen of New Orleans
Neil Young and Promise of the Real- Vampire Blues (Live 2015
Joe Cocker with Tony Joe White- High Lonesome Blue
Alexis P Suter- Let It Be (Live at Don Odell's Legends, 2014)
Dion- The Wanderer (Live at Madison Square Garden, 10/29/09)
Johnny Winter- Third Degree
Shemekia Copeland- Never Going Back to Memphis (Live at the W. C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival, Henderson, KY, 6/18/10)
Doc Watson- Never No More Blues
Mighty Mo Rodgers- Black Coffee and Ci******es (Live at Studio City Sound, Los Angeles, 8/26/11)
Humble Pie- Black Coffee
Little Johnny Clark- Black Coffee
Motörhead- Limb from Limb
Louisiana Drifter- Couch Glue
John Lee Ho**er and Canned Heat- Drifter
Men in Blues- Battered and Bruised
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss- Killing the Blues
Motörhead- Lost Woman Blues
The Yardbirds- Lost Woman
Fleetwood Mac- One Sunny Day
Black Maracas- Eleven Girls
Roy Milton and His Solid Senders- R.M. Blues
Lightnin' Slim- Nothin' But the Devil
Johnny Winter- Help Me
Motörhead- Train Kept A-Rollin'

01/09/2024

A young JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL enjoys a drink, in Senatobia, Mississippi, circa 1967.

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Photo, with big thanks, by George Mitchell.

01/09/2024

Here's the playlist from Sunday, December 17th.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Blues with a Feeling
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble with Jeff Healey- Look at Little Sister (Live on CBC-TV, Toronto, 6/16/87)
John Lee Ho**er- Mama You Got a Daughter
Big Joe Turner- Farmer's Daughter Blues
Homesick James- Farmer's Blues
Muddy Waters- Burr Clover Farm Blues
Robert Pete Williams- Farm Blues
Mississippi Fred McDowell- Down on Dankin's Farm
Led Zeppelin- Jennings Farm Blues
Bukka White- Parchman Farm Blues
Scrapper Blackwell- Penal Farm Blues
Bo Carter- The County Farm Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins- Prison Farm Blues
Son House- Country Farm Blues
Farm- Statesboro Blues
J. J. Cale and Eric Clapton- Dead End Road
Tommy Johnson- Big Road Blues
Muddy Waters- Lonesome Road Blues
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Walkin' Blues
Johnny Winter with Edgar Winter's White Trash- To***co Road (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 4/17/70)
Jerry Garcia Band- Tangled Up in Blue (Live at Campbell Hall, University of California Santa Barbara, Goleta, CA, 2/5/77 (Late Show))
John Kay and the Sparrow- Hoochie Coochie Man
Taj Mahal- She Caught the Katy (Live at Skyville Live, Nashville, 12/11/15)
Jason Ricci and New Blood - I'm a New Man
Rory Gallagher- A Million Miles Away
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Dirty Pool
Paul Rodgers- Midnight Rose
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Mary, Mary
Slim Harpo- Boogie Chillun
Johnny Winter- She Likes to Boogie Real Low
Hot Tuna- Hesitation Blues (Live at the New Orleans House, Berkeley, CA, September 1969)
UFO- Loving Cup (Live at Hibiya Park, Tokyo, 9/25/71)
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Driftin' and Driftin'
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers- Drifting Blues
Townes Van Zandt- Blaze's Blues
Johnny Winter- You Must Have a Twin
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Drivin' Wheel
Free- Waitin' on You (BBC Top Gear Session, 7/15/68)/Guy Stevens Blues
Jason Ricci and New Blood- My Head Is a Bad Neighborhood
Derek and the Dominos- I Don't Know Why (Live at the Marquee Club, London, 8/11/70 (Second Show))
Doctor Sausage and His Five Pork Chops- Doctor Sausage's Blues
Sippie Wallace with Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings- Bedroom Blues
ZZ Top- Bedroom Thang
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Look Over Yonder Wall

01/07/2024

Hit Factory, 1969

01/06/2024

Here's the playlist from Sunday, December 10th.
Big Mama Thornton and the Muddy Waters Blues Band- I Feel the Way I Feel
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble with Jimmie Vaughan- Look at Little Sister (Live at the Austin Opera House, 7/17/86)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe- Shout Sister Shout/Rock Daniel
Humble Pie- Rollin' Stone
Robert Johnson- Stones in My Passway/I'm a Steady Rollin' Man
Pine Top Smith- Jump Steady Blues
John Lee Ho**er- Rock Steady (Live at the Keystone, Palo Alto, CA, September 1977)
Buddy Guy- Slow Blues (Live at the New Orleans House, Berkeley, CA, 1968)
ZZ Top- Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell
Guitar Slim and Jelly Belly (Alex Stewart and Louis “Fat Boy” Hayes)- Snowing and Raining
John Lee Ho**er and Van Morrison- Rainy Day
Guitar Slim and Jelly Belly- Crooked Wife Blues
Memphis Minnie- Killer Diller Blues
Blind Boy Fuller- Crooked Woman Blues
Tommie Bradley- Window Pane Blues
Fenton Robinson- The Getaway
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Texas Flood (Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 7/16/85)
Otis Rush- It Takes Time
Louisiana Red- Rock Me Mama
The Beatles- Johnny B. Goode (Live on BBC Saturday Club, 2/15/64)
Bumble Bee Slim- If the Blues Was Whiskey
Kokomo Arnold- Grandpa Got Drunk
Harvey Hill- When I've Been Drinking
Ma Rainey- Those All Night Long Blues
Lewis Black- Gravel Camp Blues
Otis Spann- Great Northern Stomp
Johnny Winter- Highway 61 Revisited (Live at Madison Square Garden, 10/16/92)
Ralph Rush- Chump Man Blues
Juzzie Smith- Harmonica Solo (Live 2022)
Indiara Sfair and Ricardo Maranhão- Old Love
Tony Joe White- Polk Salad Annie (Live on Austin City Limits, 12/5/80)
Buddy Guy- Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
Mance Lipscomb- Rock Me Mama
Christmas- Blues on an Iceberg
Jefferson Airplane- Blues from an Airplane
Brenda Bell with Danny Russo- You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
Snooky Pryor and Homesick James- Crying Shame (Live in Germany 1973)
Memphis Slim- Everything I Do Is Wrong
Sunnyland Slim- Slim's Shout
Guitar Slim- Well I Done Got Over It
Little Joe Blue- Don't Tax Me In
Big Bill Morganfield- Stop This Mess
Mad Guz & the Mojos- She's Dynamite
Little Walter- That's It
Lonnie Johnson- Be Careful
Victoria Spivey- Closed Door
Brooklyn Blues Busters- Talk to Me Baby
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble with Jimmie Vaughan- Life Without You (Live at the Austin Opera House, 7/17/86)

12/31/2023

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12/31/2023

“A long time ago, Lightnin' was playing a local bar in Houston, and one of the frats came up and said, 'Do you mind playing something by John Lee Ho**er?' And he said, 'I'm Lightnin' Hopkins. I don't play nothin' else.'” – Johnny Winter

12/30/2023

Here's the playlist from Sunday, December 3rd.
John Mayall with Harvey Mandel and Larry “The Mole” Taylor- Television Eye
Johnny Winter- TV Mama
Tom Jones- Talking Reality Television Blues
Masters Of Reality- Ants in the Kitchen
Jay Smith- Fire Ant Blues
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Fire (Live at the Hollywood Bowl, 8/18/67)
John Mayall- Fan the Flames
Canned Heat- Let's Work Together (Live on Beat Club, Bremen, Germany, 1/30/70)
John Lee Ho**er- Homework
Fleetwood Mac- Homework (Chess Records, 1/4/69)
Muddy Waters- I Feel Like Going Home (Live at Manchester Free Trade Hall, 10/26/58)
John Mayall- Country Roads (Live at the Boston Music Hall, 11/18/71)
The Blues Brothers- Soul Man (Live at Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, 9/9/78)
Victor Wainwright with Tony Holiday- She's Tough (Live on the Internet, 2021)
Johnny Winter- You Must Have a Twin
J. J. Cale- Call Me the Breeze
Tampa Red and Georgia Tom- You Can't Get That Stuff No More
The Mississippi Sheiks- Bootlegger's Blues
Lead Belly- Where Did You Sleep Last Night?/When I Was a Cowboy
Rory Gallagher- Out on the Western Plain
Stevie Ray Vaughan- Life by the Drop
Sonny Landreth- Z. Rider (Live at Grant Street Dancehall, Lafayette, LA, 4/24/04)
Johnny Winter- Fast Life Rider
Climax Blues Band- All the Time in the World (Live at the Marquee, London, 1973)
Albert Castiglia- Unhappy House of Blues
Tampa Red- Green and Lucky Blues
Justin Townes Earle- The Saint of Lost Causes
FUGI- I'd Rather Be a Blind Man
Victor Wainwright & The Train- I'll Start Tomorrow (Live at Don Odell's Legends, 2018)
J. Geils Band- Whammer Jammer/Hard Drivin' Man (Live at the Cinderella Ballroom, Detroit, 4/21/72)
Faces- Too Much Woman (For a Henpecked Man) (Live at BBC Studios, London, 10/26/71)
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Walter Trout and Coco Montoya- Rolling with the Blues (Live in Szeged, Hungary, 6/6/85)
The Arcs- Stay in My Corner
arc angels- Shape I'm In
Savoy Brown- Going Down South
R. L. Burnside- Going Down South (Too Bad Jim Version)
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown- My Time Is Expensive (1950 Version)
John Lee Ho**er- High Priced Woman
Black Sabbath- The Wizard
Eddie Boyd Trio- The Big Beat (Live in Helsinki, 4/9/70)
Susan Tedeschi- Just Won't Burn (Live at Red Rocks, 7/28/23)
John Mayall- Got to Be This Way (Live at Hunter College, New York, 12/3/71)

12/29/2023

RY COODER and TAJ MAHAL in July of 1965, during recording sessions for the Rising Sons album.

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Photo by Jerry Fitzgerald for the Sony Music Archives.

12/27/2023

Here's the playlist from Sunday, November 26th.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Hear My Train a Comin' (Record Plant, New York, 4/7/69)
Muddy Waters- Train Fare Home Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson I- Train Fare Blues
John Jackson- The Devil He Wore a Hickory Shoe
Townes Van Zandt- Delta Momma Blues
Loudon Wainwright III- Hometeam Crowd
Cephas & Wiggins- Richmond Blues (Live 1989)
John Lee Ho**er- Wobblin' Baby
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Red House (Olympic Studios, London, 2/17/69)
Gregg Allman- House of Blues
The Doors- Who Scared You
The Louvin Brothers- Scared of the Blues
Band of Gypsys with Juma Sultan- Bleeding Heart (Record Plant, New York, 5/21/69)
Bessie Smith- Bleeding Hearted Blues
The Band- Crying Heart Blues
Bukka White- Bukka's Jitterbug Swing
Muddy Waters- Jitterbug Blues
Shakey Jake- Jake's Blues
Tommy Johnson- Alcohol and Jake Blues
Henry Thomas- Texas Easy Street
John Martyn- The Easy Blues
Gypsy Sun & Rainbows- Easy Blues (Hit Factory, New York, 8/28/69)
Mississippi Fred McDowell- 61 Highway (1969 Version)
Lightnin' Hopkins and Billy Bizor- Where She Used to Lay (Live 1967)
Big Mama Thornton- Let Your Tears Fall Baby
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers- All Your Love
Otis Rush- Double Trouble
Johnnie Temple- The Evil Devil Blues
Blind Boy Fuller- Truckin' My Blues Away
Big Joe Williams- Baby Please Don't Go
Little Walter- Blue and Lonesome
Blind Willie McTell- Dying Crapshooter's Blues
Tedeschi Trucks Band with Trey Anastasio and Doyle Bramhall II- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Live at Lockn', Oak Ridge Farm, VA, 8/24/19)
Savoy Brown- Take It Easy/Sitting an' Thinking
Bessie Smith- Thinking Blues
John Lee Ho**er- Thinking Blues
Lowell Fulson- Thinking Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Couldn't Stand the Weather (Live on Austin City Limits, 10/10/89)
Band of Gypsys- Once I Had a Woman (Record Plant, New York, 1/23/70)
Robert Johnson- When You Got a Good Friend
Elester Anderson- Black and Tan
Fleetwood Mac- My Baby's Sweet (Live in Paris, 12/31/68)
Beck, Bogert & Appice- Livin' Alone/I'm So Proud (Live at Koseinenkin Hall, Osaka, 5/19/73)
Shemekia Copeland- Why Why Why
Robert Cray- Time Makes Two
Mad Season- Artificial Red
Jimi Hendrix with Albert Allen and James Booker- Mojo Man (Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals, AL, June 1969)
Band of Gypsys- Villanova Junction Blues (Record Plant, New York, 5/21/69)

12/26/2023

"Everybody got to know Duane and Gregg, so they were just like one of the guys. They were known as 'Those white boys who can play that funky music.' Duane could just play it all. Even if you call the jazz tune, he did jump right on it. Gregg was a long-haired musician, so back then he was a freak. And I'm black. So we both knew what it was like to be discriminated against, which is probably why we got along so well. We had each other and we had the music." Floyd Miles, bandmate and friend from Daytona Beach

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12/25/2023

Here's the playlist from Sunday, November 19th.
Aretha Franklin- The Weight
The Allman Brothers Band- Trouble No More (Live at the Fillmore East, 2/11/70)
Hound Dog Taylor- Talk to My Baby (I Can't Hold Out)
The Black Keys- Everywhere I Go
Junior Kimbrough- I Feel Alright
John Lee Ho**er- How Long Blues
Elmore James- Every Day I Have the Blues
Cinderella- Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams
The Allman Brothers Band- It's Not My Cross to Bear
John Mayall- The Bear
Canned Heat- I'm Her Man
Johnny Jenkins- I Walk on Guilded Splinters
Joe Krown- Gumbo Boogie
Spooky Tooth- Evil Woman
The Allman Brothers Band- Black Hearted Woman
Monroe Walker- Black Heart Blues
Robert Johnson- Kindhearted Woman Blues
Robert Petway- Catfish Blues (Alternate Take)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Catfish Blues (Live at the Hollywood Bowl, 8/18/67)
The Yardbirds- Train Kept a' Rollin (Live in France, 6/27/66)
Jeff Beck Group- Beck's Bolero
The Duck and the Bear (Johnny Sandlin and Eddie Hinton)- Goin' Up the Country
Johnny Winter with Billy Branch- You Must Have a Twin
Sam Samudio- Goin' Upstairs
The Allman Brothers Band- Dimples (Live at Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati, 4/11/70)
John Lee Ho**er- Bottle of Wine
Freddie King with Eric Clapton- Sugar Sweet
Little Junior Parker- Sweet Home Chicago
Dion with Sonny Landreth- Cryin' Shame
Tommy Emmanuel with J. D. Simo- (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
Vanessa Collier & Laura Chavez- Whiskey & Women (Live at Don Odell's Legends, 2019)
Luther Allison- Evil Is Going On
Bo Diddley- Better Watch Yourself
T-Bone Walker- Stormy Monday Blues (1967)/Call It Stormy Monday (1947)
The Allman Brothers Band- Stormy Monday (Live at A&R Studios, New York, 8/26/71)
Taj Mahal- Leaving Trunk
Johnny Winter- Leavin' Blues
Delaney & Bonnie with Duane Allman- Come on in My Kitchen (Live 1971)
Buddy Guy with Junior Mance- Five Long Years
Duane Allman- Happily Married Man
Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band- We're Ready
Nina Simone- Feeling Good
Derek and the Dominos- Anyday
The Allman Brothers Band- In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Live at the Fillmore East, 2/14/70)

12/24/2023

The Blacklight Blues Show will be live today from 5-9 PM. Call 309-659-7608 with your requests.

12/18/2023

The Blacklight Blues Show is live until 9:45. Paul Butterfield is the artist of the day. Send a message or call 309-659-7608 with your requests.

12/16/2023

Here's the playlist from Sunday, November 12th.
Mississippi Fred McDowell- What's the Matter Now?
Frank Stokes- What's the Matter Blues
Jimmy Rogers- What's the Matter
Memphis Jug Band- What's the Matter?
Charlie Burse and His Memphis Mudcats- What's the Matter with the Well
W. C. Handy- The Memphis Blues
King Oliver- Dippermouth Blues
Junior Wells- Checkin' on My Baby (Live in Europe 1966)
Louisiana Red- Rock Me Mama
Gary Moore, Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell- Hey Joe (Live at the London Hippodrome, 10/25/07)
Rory Gallagher- Calling Card
John Brim- Ice Cream Man
Billy Roberts- Hey Joe
Shemekia Copeland- Never Going Back to Memphis
Jason Ricci and The Bad Kind- Baked Potato
Sonny Boy Williamson II- Help Me
Junior Wells- Help the Poor (Live at Theresa's Lounge, Chicago, January 1975)
Doc Watson- Poor Boy Blues
Neil Young- Vampire Blues
Blue Öyster Cult- O. D.'d on Life Itself
Ten Years After- I'm Going Home (Live at Woodstock, 8/17/69)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Killing Floor (Live at the Hollywood Bowl, 8/18/67)
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers- Killing Time
Snowy White Blues Agency- The Time Has Come
Billy F Gibbons- My Baby She Rocks
Mississippi Fred McDowell- My Baby
Mose Allison- My Brain
Merle Haggard- Brain Cloudy Blues
Tedeschi Trucks Band- Anyhow (Live at Swamp Raga Studio, 2015)
Dion and Paul Simon- Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America)
Dion and John Hammond- My Baby Loves to Boogie
John Lee Ho**er- Hoogie Boogie
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Hootin' the Blues (Live 1952)
Shemekia Copeland- Should Have Come Home
Clayton Love- Blues Come Home
Anthony Gomes- Blues in the First Degree
Larry Johnson- Worried Life Blues
Harvey Hill- When I've Been Drinking
Little Joe Blue- Lonesome Feeling
T. Rex- Bolan's Blues
Albert Collins- I Got That Feeling (Live at Wise Fool's Pub, Chicago, 1979)
Fleetwood Mac- Sunny Side of Heaven
Sunnyland Slim- Troubles of My Own
Lucille Spann- Meat Ration Blues
Homesick James- I Got to Move

12/14/2023

Robert Crumb

12/11/2023

Here's the playlist from Sunday, November 5th.
Sonny Boy Williamson II- Good Evening Everybody
John Lee Ho**er- Wednesday Evening Blues
Junior Wells- In the Wee Wee Hours
P*e Wee Crayton- Blues After Hours
Chuck Berry- Wee Hour Blues
Big Bill Broonzy- Wee Wee Blues
B.B. King- Wee Baby Blues
Bonnie Raitt- Angel from Montgomery
Wes Montgomery- D-Natural Blues
Walter Horton- Skip It
Evelyn “Champagne” King- Shame
Shirley & Company- Shame, Shame, Shame
R. L. Burnside- Chain of Fools
Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers- Sitting at Home Alone
Buddy Guy- Sit and Cry (The Blues)
Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Otis Spann, Frank Kirkland, Hubert Sumlin and Buddy Guy- The Red Rooster (Tel Mar Studios, Chicago, September 1967)
Johnny Winter- Third Degree
The Rolling Stones- Susie Q
Charlie Musselwhite- Chicago Sunset
Howlin' Wolf- How Many More Years
Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Buddy Guy and Otis Spann- You Don't Love Me (Tel Mar Chicago, January 1967)
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith with Kim Wilson and Pinetop Perkins- WSKW Special
ZZ Top- Mexican Blackbird
Son Seals- Call My Job (Live at Wise Fools Pub, Chicago, 1978)
The Black Keys- Have Mercy on Me
Lee Richardson- My Old Blue Chevy
Canned Heat- That's All Right (Mama)
Jimmy Dawkins- Night Rock
Eric Clapton- Layla (Live in Asia 2014)
Omar Kent D***s & Jimmie Vaughan- Baby What You Want Me to Do/Bright Lights Big City
Robben Ford- Talk to Your Daughter (Live at the Bottom Line, New York City, 1990)
Muddy Waters- Champagne and Re**er (Live at Harry Hope's, Cary, IL, 8/25/78)
Bessie Smith- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
John Lee Ho**er- One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Taking Care of No Business
Lurrie Bell- All Over Again
The Graham Bond Organisation with Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker- Wade in the Water (Live at Klook's Kleek, London, 10/15/64)
Howlin' Waters Band Band- Leave My Girl Alone (Live at the Dam Red Barn, Canyon Lake, TX, 9/23/23)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience with Steve Winwood and Jack Casady- Voodoo Chile
Mississippi Fred McDowell- Baby Please Don't Go
Bukka White- New Orleans, Streamline
Gov't Mule- Streamline Woman
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Lonnie Mack- Oreo Cookie Blues (Live at the Orpheum Theater, Memphis, August 1986)

12/09/2023

Delta blues icon SON HOUSE, and an unknown woman, in 1929. This may be his earliest known photo.

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Photo from the book "American Epic."

12/08/2023

Here's the playlist from Sunday, September 17th.
B.B. King- Help the Poor (L.A. Midnight Version)
James Davis- Instrumental #1 (George Mitchell Recording)
Freddie King- Side Tracked
Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King- Texas Flood (Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 4/22/88)
Casey Bill Weldon- Flood Water Blues (1 & 2)
Hank Williams- Move It On Over
Seasick Steve- Dog House Boogie
Humble Pie- Red Neck Jump
B.B. King- I've Got a Mind to Give Up Living/Lucille (Live on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, 9/9/86)
Son Seals- Sadie
Hank Williams- Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Gov't Mule- Gonna Send You Back to Georgia
Primitive Radio Gods- Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand
Buddy Guy- Five Long Years ('60s Version)
Lizzi Neal Band- Movin' On
Rhoda Scott- Movin' Blues
Cyndi Lauper with Allen Toussaint and B.B. King- Early in the Mornin'
Steve Miller Band- Sweet Maree
B.B. King with Taj Mahal and Randy California- Can't You Hear Me Talking to You?
David Bromberg Band- Will Not Be Your Fool (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 4/17/76)
B.B. King, Gary Moore and Luther Allison- Blues Instrumental (Live in Antibes, France, 7/21/96)
Roosevelt Sykes- Miss Ida B.
Boo Boo Davis- East St. Louis
Freddie King- Lowdown in Lodi
Albert King- Down Don't Bother Me
Ry Cooder- Feelin' Bad Blues
Grandpa Elliott- Baby What You Want Me to Do
Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon- Bye Bye Blues (Live on the American Folk Blues Festival Tour)
John Lee Ho**er and Bonnie Raitt- I'm in the Mood
Hank Williams- Lovesick Blues (Live on the Health and Happiness Show, October 1949)
Darondo- Don't Understand It
B.B. King with Jesse Ed Davis and Joe Walsh- Midnight
James Davis- Instrumental #4 (George Mitchell Recording)
Jeff Beck Group- Beck's Bolero
THE STEEPWATER BAND- Remember the Taker
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Tin Pan Alley (Roughest Place in Town) (Alternate Version)
Doyle Bramhall- Sugar (Where'd You Get Your Sugar From)
Great White- House of Broken Love
Quicksilver Messenger Service- Mona
Led Zeppelin- I Gotta Move (Live at Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhangen, Denmark, 3/16/69)

12/06/2023

Bo and the Duchess:
“Norma-Jean was my first sidekick. We did everything together.” – Bo Diddley, 2005

One of the first female rock ‘n’ roll guitarists was a tall, stunning black woman with a towering bouffant hairdo, a skintight gold lame dress (or black leather pants), high heels, and a custom Gretsch electric guitar, designed by the man usually standing next to her onstage, Bo Diddley.

Technically Norma-Jean Wofford, nicknamed “The Duchess” by Bo, was the second female guitarist in Diddley’s backing band. She replaced “Lady Bo” (Peggy Jones) in 1962, with Bo hiring her first and then teaching her how to play rhythm guitar. Lady Bo had been Bo’s lead guitar player from 1957 to 1961, leaving to form her own group The Jewel, later called Lady Bo and The Family Jewels, and work as a session musician. Bo’s audiences’ disappointment in not seeing Lady Bo with the band prompted him to hire Norma-Jean.

12/05/2023

Here's the playlist from Sunday, September 10th.
Mississippi Fred McDowell- Going Down the River
R. L. Burnside- Goin' Down South (Worried Blues Version, Independence, MS or Memphis, 1969)
Furry Lewis- Blues Around My Bed
Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas- Over to My House
Charley Patton- Shake It and Break It
Mississippi John Hurt- Keep on Knocking
Lazy Lester- Blues Stop Knockin'
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Scuttle Buttin'/Couldn't Stand the Weather
Jimmy Reed- Can't Stand to See You Go
The Allman Brothers Band- Trouble No More (Live at the Fillmore East, 3/12/71 (First Show))
John Lee Ho**er- Trouble Blues
Johnnie & Verlina Woods- Live in Mississippi, 1975
Marilyn Monroe- Happy Birthday, Mr. President/Thanks for the Memory (Live at Madison Square Garden, 5/19/62)
Robert Palmer- Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley
Richard “Rabbit” Brown- James Alley Blues
Bob Dylan- Railroad Boy/James Alley Blues (Live in Minneapolis, May 1961)
Robert Brown (Smoky Babe)- Rabbit Blues
Charley Booker- Rabbit Blues
Mississippi Fred McDowell- 61 Highway
Lightnin' Hopkins- Highway Blues
John Lee Ho**er- Going on Highway 51
Molly Nova & The Hawks- Biggsville Train
Rick Berthod- Driftin'
Albert King- Drifting Blues (Live at the Fillmore West, 6/27/68)
Bobby “Blue” Bland- Driftin' Blues
Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band- Ships on the Ocean
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Ships Passing Through the Night
Blues Image- Ride Captain Ride
Shemekia Copeland- Walk Until I Ride
John Németh and the Blue Dreamers- I Can See Your Lovelight Shine/Elbows on the Wheel (Live at the Fallout Shelter, Norwood, MA, 4/16/22)
Håkan Ehn (Harmonica Hawk)- Going Down
Champion Jack Dupree- Sharp Harp
Harmonica Fats- Driveway Blues
Big Jay McNeely feat. George “Harmonica” Smith- You Don't Have to Go
Darondo- Didn't I
The Record Company- Rita Mae Young
The Allman Brothers Band- Stormy Monday (Live at the Fillmore East, 3/13/71 (Second Show))
If- Stormy Every Weekday Blues
Muddy Waters- Champagne & Re**er
Stevie Ray Vaughan- Riviera Paradise
Cream- Born Under a Bad Sign
Bukka White with Howlin' Wolf- World Boogie (Live at the Newport Folk Festival, July 1966)
Three Dog Night- Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)
Mississippi Fred McDowell- Mississippi Fred's Shakedown (Live in Tacoma,WA, 4/4/71)

12/03/2023

John Mayall is the artist of the day on today's Blacklight Blues Show. Listen from 5-9 PM on wqudfm.com and 107.7 FM, and call 309-659-7608 with your requests.

11/29/2023

11/29/2023

Here's the playlist from Sunday, September 3rd.
Freddie King- Big Legged Woman (Live at the Sugar Bowl, South Carolina, 9/22/72)
Mississippi John Hurt- Big Leg Blues (1928 Version)
The Mississippi Sheiks- Jake Leg Blues
Rory Gallagher- The Mississippi Sheiks (Live at the Bottom Line, New York City, 11/11/78)
ZZ Top- Mexican Blackbird
Leona Williams & Her Dixie Band (The Original Memphis Five)- Mexican Blues
Lonnie Johnson- Blackbird Blues
Tommy McClennan- Bluebird Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson I- Blue Bird Blues
John Lee Ho**er- Bluebird
Freddie King- Little Bluebird (Live in the '70s)
R. L. Burnside- Just Like a Bird Without a Feather (George Mitchell Recording)
Jimmy Buffett- Wheel Inside the Wheel
Albert King- Drivin' Wheel
Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe- Pile Drivin' Blues
Sylvester Weaver- Rock Pile Blues
Jabbo Smith and His Rhythm Aces- Michigander Blues
Dave Van Ronk- Michigan Water Blues
B.B. King- Backwater Blues
Bessie Smith- Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
Robert “Guitar” Welch- Electric Chair Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson- Lectric Chair Blues
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Mr. Banker
Jake Holmes- Dazed and Confused
Freddie King- Ain't Nobody's Business (Live at the Sugar Bowl, 9/22/72)
Big Maybelle- Gabbin' Blues (Don't Run My Business)
Snooky Pryor with Mel Brown- Ain't Nobody's Business
Little Freddie King- Messin' Around Tha House
Joe Louis Walker & the Blues Rebels ( Hammer, Andy Watts & The Hillels)- Ain't That Cold (Live at Zappa, Tel Aviv, 4/4/13)
Victor Wainwright & The WildRoots- Walk Away My Blues
John Németh- Hoodoo Man Blues (Live at the Bluesfestival, Östersund, Sweden, 2006)
John Hammond- Ride Till I Die
The Blues Mystery- Back to the Dirty Town
Freddie King- I'm Tore Down (Live at the Sugarbowl, 9/22/72)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Look at Little Sister (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 9/21/85)
Albert Cummings- Let Me Be
Jimi Hendrix and Gypsy Sun and Rainbows- The Star-Spangled Banner/Purple Haze (Live at Woodstock, 8/18/69)
John Mayall- Harp Man
Walter “Shakey” Horton- Easy
Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters and Junior Wells- That Same Thing (Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 6/28/74)
The Neville Brothers- Yellow Moon
Tab Benoit- Muddy Bottom Blues
Freddie King- Going Down (Live at the Sugar Bowl, 9/22/72)