Play List for Thursday June 26th 2008

This morning’s show was fun, a bit frantic at times, but fun none the less. I enjoyed playing a few new ones: Marcia Ball, Dennis Gruenling, Sugar Pie Desanto and Delta Highway. A few classics: Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson and Howlin’ Wolf. And some of my favorites: all of them. I want to nominate Delta Highwy for having the best CD cover of 2007! Be sure to tune in next week, and keep an eye out for my soon to be released top 10 blues CD list.

Billy Boy Arnold / Last night
Debbie Davies / Just stepped in the blues
Marcia Ball & Dr. John / I’ll never be free
Dennis Gruenling & Gina Fox / Up the line
Sugar Pie Desanto / Blues hall of fame
Little Walter / Thunderbird
Little Walter / Aw Baby
Alice Stuart / Down to earth man
Larry Davis / Help the poor
Ray Bonneville / So long blues
Sonny Boy Williamson / Got to move
Delta Highway / Somebody’s got to go
Toni Lynn Washington / We don’t see eye to eye
Paul Rishell / Mamie
Sonny Terry & Johnny Winter / So tough with me
Kirk Fletcher & Finis Tasby / Rivers invitation
Kim Wilson / Lowdown
Kim Wilson / I’ve been searching
Keb Mo / Whole nutha thang
Junior Parker / Sweet home Chicago
Jimmy Burns / Country boy in the city
Carey Bell & Lurrie Bell / I need you so bad
Long John Hunter / Arkansas
Freddy King / Living on the highway
Howlin’ Wolf / Hidden Charms
Steve Freund / Fine looking woman
Sue Foley & Lucinda Williams / Empty cup
Taj Mahal / Dhow countries
Taj Mahal / Zanzibar
Jimmy Johnson / Black & White wall
Johnny Lang / Red light

Play List for Thursday June 19th 2008

I thought today’s show was a good mix of music that seemed to have a pretty good flow to it. I’m not a real big Buddy Guy fan, but I know he’s well liked and in an effort to always play a wide variety of artists each week I pulled a 1987 vinyl record called “This is Buddy Guy” which was recorded at a Berkley, CA club called House of New Orleans. The record has some great live Buddy Guy on it featuring AC Reed on Sax, and it sounded like everyone was having a lot of fun. I also played two songs from a couple of CDs that I recently picked up. One was the great sax man “Jimmy “Houserocker” Cavallo”, and the other was a recent re-release self title album by “Mighty Joe Young”. I like them both a lot. You can count on hearing more from both of these CDs on future Thursday’s "Breakfast with the blues" shows.

Johnny Adams / My heart is hanging heavy
Ronnie Earl / O’yeah
Michelle Wilson / Pleasing you
Mississippi Heat / Soft hearted woman
Ian Siegal / Butter side up
Charlie musselwhite / Cha cha the blues
Home Cookin’ / Brick house in Memphis
Tommy Castro / Can’t quit the blues
Gatemouth Brown / Jelly Jelly Jelly
Jimmy Cavallo / Franny Brown
Janiva Magness / Do I move you
Kid Ramos / Country woman
Mighty Joe Young / Sweet kisses
Lavelle White / Why young men go wild
Buddy Guy / (You give me) Fever
Otis Clay / Thanks a lot
William Clarke / I feel like jumping
Paul Delay / I know you got another man
Jimmy Dawkins / I wonder why
Sugar Ray Norcia / Picture
Debbie Davies / Picture this
James Cotton / Set a date
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith / Dreamin’
Johnny Dyer / Listen up
Kathy Walker / Good Thing
Tab Benoit / The killing floor
Johnnie Johnson / Blues #574
Rod Piazza / Sea of fools
James Harman / Clown
Lynwood Slim / Not your clown
Joe Louis Walker / 2120 S. Michigan Ave

Play List for Thursday June 12th 2008

A fun show that tended to be a little guitar heavy with the likes of BB King, Kirk “Eli” Fletcher, Eric Clapton and Son Seals. I played a cut form Tony Joe White’s new CD “Deep Cuts” it’s great that he’s still putting out good quality music 40 years after “Polk Salad Annie”. I played the title track from the late Gary Primich’s “Company Man” CD, I really like that song & CD. I recently checked out Gary’s website and there was an interesting write up about the old Lefty’s Pizzeria in Salem in the Lore section of the website. Tune in next week for more post war blues!

Sam Myers / I got the blues
Freddie Hughes / I know it’s hard but it’s fair
Little Milton Blind Man
Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers / Deep Fried
Albert King / She caught the Katy
Marcia Ball / That’s what I get
Matt Guitar Murphy / Gonna be some changes made
Charlie Musselwhite / Cold grey light of day
Lowell Fulson / Blue Shadows
Lloyd Glenn / Levee Blues
Geraldine Carter & Lloyd Glenn / Advice to a fool
BB King / How blue can you get
BB King / Ask me no questions
Koko Taylor / Nitty Gritty
Kirk Fletcher / Hip Hug Her
Keb Mo / Rita
Shawna Snyder Black mountain blues
Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughan / You made me laugh
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers / Hideaway
Eric Clapton & John Mayall / Torn down
John Mayall / Blues for the lost days
Muddy Waters / Mean black spider
Angela Strehli / Stranger blues
Etta James / Feel like breaking up someone’s home
Son Seals / Four seasons of love
Tony Joe White / As the crow fly’s
Melvin Taylor / Even Trolls like to rock n roll
Jeremy Spencer / Psychic waste
Gary Primich / Company man
Big Maybelle / Going home baby
Taj Mahal / Corinna
Taj Mahal / Going up the country
Maurice John Vaughn / Everything I do has got to be funky

Play List for Thursday June 5th 2008

I did some pre-planning for this morning's show and pulled about 10 CD's from my personal collection to share with the listeners. When I got to the station I noticed that I had forgot to put the CDs into my bag, so I was pretty much scambling from the first song on. Fortunatly I was getting a few more calls than I normally do from folks that were liking the show, and requesting for a song or an artist to be played. Quite often when I'm doing a show, one song or music style will inspire another one and it goes from there. It was nice to have the requests to lay the ground work for the direction of my show. I think we did good. Be sure to tune in next week. I'm planning on bringing in the CDs that I left on the counter, and I hope you like them.

James Cotton / 23 hours too long
John Primer / A woman needs to be loved
Billy Branch & Lurrie Bell / Have you ever loved a woman
Julian Fauth / Will the circle be unbroken
James Hunter / Class Act
Bobby Blue Bland / I wouldn't treat a dog like that
Jimmy Thackery & David Raitt / Watch your back
Shannon Curfman / That's how it feels
Fenton Robinson / Somebody loan me a dime
Magic Slim / 1823 S. Michigan Ave
Savoy Brown / Stay while the night is young
Nighthawks / Little Quennie
John Hammond / Who do you love
Walter Horton & Sugar Ray Norcia / I cry for you
Teeny Tucker / Ramblin' Blues
Bo Diddley / I'm a man
Bo Diddley / Mona
Billy Boy Arnold / I ain't got you
Lester Davenport / Knocked on every door
Clarence Spady / Enough of you
Duffy Bishop / Change your address
John Fohl / I won't be ready
John Fohl / Rope Strechin' Blues
Gary Primich / Good-bye little girl
Paul Delay / What's coming next
Homemade Jamz / Who you real friends aer
Fabulous Thunderbirds / Twist of the knife
Mark Hummel / Before the beginning
Dr. John / Time for a change
Bo Diddley / Can't judge a book by it's cover.