Play List for Thursday May 22nd 2008

This morning's show consisted mostly of some of the more current popular blues artists. I tossed in a few lessser known folks that I like with Johnny Heartsmith and Al Bisil, but gennerally I think popular artists are "popular artists" for a reason, listeners enjoy listening to them. Pretty simple huh? I think it's cool to play some music that is from some unknown band, or unique artist, but a consistant run of generic mildly interesting music is not that entertaining. I try to work within a standard successful radio format, which gennerally is a mix of new, classic and popular music.

BB King / How blue can you get
Snooky Pryor / Little brown hen
Roy Milton / Early morning
Otis Rush / All your love
Earl Hooker / Sweet home Chicago
Robert Cray / Phone booth
Dinah Washington / Jailhouse blues
Toni Lynn Washington . Evenin'
JB Lenoir / I want to know
Johnny Heartsmith / Let me love you
Zora Young / Love of mine
Professer Longhair / Mean old world
Rod Piazza / Sinister woman
Ray Bonneville / Trap door spider
Alice Stuart / The man's so good
Muddy Waters / Louisiana Blues
Billy Boy Arnold / Good morning little school girl
Janiva Magness/ Fool me again
Taj Mahal / Statesboro blues
Jimmy Burns / Wait a minute
Ronnie Earl & Kim Wilson / I smell trouble
Pinetop Perkins / Look on yonder wall
Pinetop Perkins / How long
Jimmy Thackery / A shot in the dark
Tommy Castro / I'm not broken
Joe Louis Walker / Ridin' high
Al Bisile / Just wait and see
Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham / Big Bubba's back rub boogie
Duke Robbilard / Down along the cove
Duke Robbilard / The dream

Play List for Thursday May 15th 2008

One of the fun things about doing a volunteer blues show on KRVM is blowing the dust off the somewhat forgotten, or maybe lesser played great reissued blues CD’s or original vinyl records that we’re lucky enough to have on hand. Such is true with Louis Myers 1978 Testament recording “I’m a Southern Man”. Louis Myers is a true Chicago blues man, and one of the best sidemen of his era. Another record that I enjoyed playing was Robert Jr. Lockwood’s “Mr. Blues is back to stay”. It’s a classic 1980 Rounder recording featuring Mr. Lockwood and his good friend Johnny Shines. I also had fun tying artists and songs together like Fleetwood Mac doing a Jimmy Rogers politically incorrect song “World’s in a tangle”. Or Sean Costello doing a great job on Otis Rush’s “You’re killing my love”. Speaking of Jimmy Rogers, his “That’s all right” is definitely one of my favorite all time classic blues songs. I always enjoy putting it out there. I had lots of calls today, and a couple of requests which I’m always happy to accommodate if possible.

Louis Myers / Just woke up
Louis Myers / Kind hearted woman
Dave Myers / Going home tommorow
Robert Jr. Lockwood / Mister Blues
Jelly Roll Kings / It’s cold outside
Kenny Blues Boss Wayne / You can pack your suitcase
Terry Hanck / Is it true
Earl King / Going public
Boneshakers / Cold sweat
Freddy King / You was wrong
Alvin Yougblood Hart / Amazed & Amused
Big Joe Williams / Someday Baby
Dave Myers / Reconsider Baby
Jimmy Rogers / That’s all right
Fleetwood Mac / World’s in a tangle
Billy Boy Arnold / Decoration Day
Debbie Davies / 24 hour fool
JW Jones / Looking the world straight in the eye
Sean Costello / You’re killing my love
Otis Rush / Gamblers blues
Jimmy Nalls / Ain’t no stranger to the blues
Gatemouth Brown / Don’t cry sister
Paula & the Pontiacs / All these blues
James Hunter / Carina
Magic Sam / Every night and every day
Stevie Ray Vaughan / Chitlins con carne
Shakey Jake Harris / Gimme a smile
Guitar Shorty / The blues got me
James Montgomery / Sinkin’ blues
Gary Clarke Jr / Worry no more
Johnny Jenkins / Drowning on dry land
A.ron Burton / Garbage man

Play List for Thursday May 8th 2008

Another fun Thursday morning blues show. No real direction or theme this morning, just a good variety (I hope) of blues music to help cure what ails your soul. I did manage to delve into some new stuff that sounded pretty good to me. I like to take new music home to revue before playing it on the air, but sometimes it just doesn’t work out that way. I quickly scanned the new Kenny Neal CD “Let Life Flow” and found a nice version of his fathers “Starlight Diamond” I think he did a great job of putting his style into the song while maintaining his dad’s original arrangement, very nice. I also played a cut from JW Jones new album “Bluelisted”. I took a look at who he had performing with him on the album (Little Charlie Baty, Junior Watson, Larry Taylor and Richard Innis) and I knew that I could probably play any song on this CD and it would be pretty good. How does this guy get all these great guys to play on all his albums? Put me in front of this group and I could almost make something worth listening to.

Otis Rush / My jug and I
Deborah Coleman / Soft place to fall
Maurizio Pugno & Sugar Ray Norcia / It must be you
Big Joe Duskin / One dirty rat
Charles Brown / Hard times
Otis Spann / You said you’d be on time
Tab Benoit / Somebody’s got to go
Little Charlie / Hurry up and wait
Bill “Froggy” Hyland / 100% Azul
Janiva Magness / Baby every night
James Cotton / Black night
Jimmy Thackery / Anchor to a drowning man
Bruce Katz / Compared to what
Jimmy Johnson / Looking for my baby
Kenny Neal / Starlight diamond
Lonnie Mack / Stand by me
Eden Brent / He’ll do the same to you
JW Jones / Wasted life
Rusty Zinn / Lucille
Mitch Kashmar / Dirty deal
Mitch Kashmar / Becky Ann
David Maxwell / Torn tendons
Mighty Sam McClain / All we need is love
Muddy Waters / Can’t lose what you never had
Susan Tedeschi & Pinetop Perkins / Since I lost my baby
Bryan Lee / Gee, baby ain’t I good to you
Pee Wee Crayton / But on the other hand
Johnny Dyer / Country Boy
Larry Garner / Keep on playing the blues
Duke Robillard / Red dog

Playlist for Thursday May 1st 2008

This week’s show was a combination of classics, favorites with some new stuff sprinkled in. You could say that is the recipe for most of my shows. I played two from Big Mama Thornton’s “Tougher than Dirt” record, and was temped to play a few more. I had a chance to revue the Mannish Boys new CD “Lonesome Feelin'” and a new one from Clarence Spady called "Just between us"and liked them both. The Mannish Boys is an All-Star cast of blues artists, joined together by the Delta Groove label. This CD features great vocals and some of the finest playing you can find anywhere. Their selection of songs and arrangements make this a good listen. Clarence Spady was also a nice treat. It's been a while since Clarence has put out a CD, but this CD is solid from the first song, right to the end. His jazz influenced guitar style and funk style song writing makes this recording a nice change of pace. Tune in next week for some more new stuff, classics and of course songs from more of my favorite artists.

Steve Freund / Hung down head
Bonnie Lee / Baby what you want me to do
Lowell Fulson / Quicker the better
James Montgomery / The sleeper
Big Mama Thornton / Born under a bad sign
Albert King / Angel of mercy
Junior Wells / I can’t get no satisfaction
Honky Tonk Women / Taj Mahal
Lightnin Hopkins / Katie Mae
Johnny B Moore / She hit me from the blind side
Carol Fran & Clarence Holliman / Keep your hand on your heart
Clarence Spady / Won’t be this way always
John Cambelljohn / Light at the end of the tunnel
Larry McCray / I’m frustrated
Vala Cupp / Nightmare blues
Duke Robillard / Blues nightmare
Big Mama Thornton / Little Red Rooster
Big Jack Johnson / Black Rooster
Robert Cray / Nice as a fool can be
BB King / Hold that train
James Harman / School Girl
Manish Boys / The Woodchuck
Manish Boys / Reet petite & gone
Johnny Jones / Love recession
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne / Thin line
Rod Piazza / Sad Hours
Little Walter / You better watch yourself
Clarence Spady / E-Mail