Playlist for Thursday April 17th 2008

The blues World recieved some sad news this week. Sean Costello was found dead in his hotel room in Atlanta on April 15th, one day before his 29th birthday. I don't want to speculate on his cause of death, but I will say that I have been a fan of this very talented singer / song writter / guitar player since he first grabbed my attention while playing guitar for Susan Tedeschi. I've liked all of his solo efforts and was truely saddened upon hearing this dreadful news. With that said I felt I needed to share some of his music with our listening audience and played two songs from his "Moanin' for Molasses" album and two from his latest recording "We Can Get Together". Beyond that I didn't have a lot of time to pre-plan this show. Having just seen Marcia Ball at Antones in Austin, TX, I knew that I wanted to play at least a couple cuts from her new recording, and with Smokin' Joe Kubek coming to town soon I thought it would make sense to play some of their stuff. I tried to mix it up with a wide variety of artists and styles and keep everyone, including myself off balance. I think I caught a groove here and there and had some fun.

Albert Collins / Don't mistake kindness for weakness
Marcia Ball / Miracle in Knoxville
Chris Thomas King / Soon this morning blues
Hoo Doo Kings / Hard Times
BB King / Bad case of love
Mary Flower / Black rat swing
Percy Mayfield / Crying about my baby
Ron Levy / Funk Finger
Sweet Suzi / Does your wife know
Sean Costello / Low-life blues
Sean Costello / Good advise
Ruthie Foster / Small town blues
Maurice John Vaughan / Everything I do (got to be funky)
John Littlejohn / Treat me wrong
Michael Burks / Hard come, easy go
Smokin' Joe Kubek / The pleasuer was all mine
Smokin' Joe Kubek / Bumpy ride
David Bennett Cohen / Like stars after sunrise
Eric Bibb / Step by step
Rory Block / Mama's blues
Gaye Lee Russell / Guilty
Sean Costello / Have you no shame
Sean Costello / Going Home
Nick Moss & The Fliptops / Lying for a profit
Otis Taylor & Alvin Youngblood Hart / Prophet's mission
Papa Chubby / Theme from The Godfather
Johnny Hoy / I want to see her
Bettye Lavette / The last time
Charlie Musselwhite / Sat & cried
Marcia Ball / I wish you well