Play List for Thursday December 18th 2008

I had the chance to revue a new CD from Dave Egan. I’m listening to this thing and thinking, wow this is good. Who is this guy? Come to find out after looking into it a little (thanks to Boogie King Steve) Dave Egan happens to be one hell of a prolific songwriter, and has written songs for scores of famous people. He has a terrific laid back style and his CD features great song and great musicianship. I also threw in a song off of Keith Crossan’s (Tommy Castro Band) new CD and a couple Christmas tunes from Ecko Records Christmas compilation CD. You have to be a little careful with Ecko’s stuff; sometimes they can get a little too suggestive for morning drive time play, but generally it all good. Boogie King Steve will be filling in for over the Holidays, so have a great Holiday and we’ll be throwing some more tunes at you next year.

David Egan / You don’t know your mind
Susan Tedeschi / You got the silver
Eric Bibb / Diamond Days
Muddy Waters / Diamonds at your feet
Susan Tedeschi / Evidence
Mannish Boys / Just to be with you
Robert Jr. Lookwood / CC Rider
Keith Crossan / Clemency
OB Buchana / Santa, bring my baby back
Toni Price / Foolin’ Around
Luther Allison / Same Thing
Jamie Wood / High Time Baby
Johnny Nocturne Band / Come Love
Home Cookin’ / Brown sugar baby
Otis Rush / You’ve been an angel
Lynwood Slim / Obdacious
Son Seals / Friday again
David Egan / Love honor & obey
Barbara Carr / I need a man down my chimney
Johnny Nichols / You can’t be lucky all the time
Robin Rogers / Come on in this house
Carl Weathersby / Leap of faith
Paul Delay / Merry way
David Egan / Bourbon in my cup
Jenifer Nicely & David Egan / If it is what it is
John Cambelljohn / Light at the end of the tunnel

Play List for Thursday December 4th 2008

I honestly didn’t have a plan for this show or have a lot of time to put much foresight into what I was going to play on the air. I generally try to come in better prepared because I think we owe to our listeners to put some effort into supplying them with a quality show. Unfortunately Thursday morning kind of snuck up on me. I did get a few positive calls and a nice e-mail, so the show must not have been a total debacle. With the recent news that Odetta had passed away, I knew that I needed to play some of her music. She was such a great person, and a huge influence on so many people. Bob Dylan credits her for turning him onto folk music. Think about that. Her voice and her music is so moving. Beyond that it was a fun morning of playing music from some of my favorites, thank goodness I have so many favorites to choose from.

Robert Cray / I guess I showed her
Charles Brown / Not so far
Danny Caron & Charles Brown / ESP Blues
Angela Strehli / Deja Blue
BB King / Darlin’ what happened
King Curtis / Soul serenade
Eden Brent / Nobody knows you when you’re down and out
Robben Ford / Mystic mile
Luther Tucker / Mean old world
Vaughan Brothers / Hard to be
Stevie Ray Vaughan / Riviera Paradise
Sue Foley / Me and my chauffer blues
Gatemouth Brown / Early in the morning
Cedric Burnside & Lightnin Malcolm / So much love
Joe Louis Walker / I’m not coming over
Odetta / Hard o Lord
Odetta / Believe I’ll go
Memphis Slim / Ridin’ on the blues train
Robin Rogers / Conjur man
Robin Rogers / Long John blues
Maria Muldaur / One hour mama
Eric Clapton / Love in vain
Dave Specter & Steve Freund / Too hot at home
Roxy Perry / Bed of blues
Johnnie Bassett / I’m gonna do what I’m gonna do
Craig Horton / Chest pain blues
Arthur Adams / Who does she think she is
Etta James / Wet match
Sean Costello / Have you no shame
Taj Mahal / zanzibar

Play List for Thursday November 27th 2008

This morning’s show happened to fall on Thanksgiving Day. Since my blues show takes place on Thursday morning, this week’s show is my 7th or 8th Thanksgiving Day breakfast with the blues. I generally like to occasionally tie one song to another or match related artists together on occasion, but I’m not huge on running long extensive play sets with common themes. But I generally try to play a fair amount food related songs on the Thanksgiving Day shows. Today’s show was no exception. In today’s computer age, and the art of googling it’s really fairly easy to piece theme shows together. I also played a couple songs as a personal tribute to Robert Lucas. Robert passed away this past Sunday. It’s truly sad to see someone so young (46) and so talented die at such an early age. I’ve been a fan of Robert Lucas, and I am truly sad that I won’t have a chance to see Robert perform live again, or get to check out new material from him. He will certainly be missed, but his music legacy will live on with songs we play on KRVM. Lastly I had a chance to revue a new CD from Glen Terry. His CD “Soul Searchin’” is really good. He is a great guitar player / songwriter and I’m looking forward to playing more songs from this CD on upcoming shows. Hope you had a great Holiday!

James Cotton I ain’t doing too bad
Ron Thompson / Walkin’ Blues
Glen Terry / All I need is you
Eddy “Cleanhead” Vinson / Kidney stew is fine
Robert Lucas / Built for comfort
Toni Price / 99 pounds
Bill Wharton / Great big fanny
Albert Collins / Too many dirty dishes
The Nighthawks / Lickin’ Gravy
John Mayall / One in a million
Rufus Thomas / Mom’s apple pie
Gina Sicilia / Plain apple pie
Glen Terry / Maurice
Ray Charles / Hey good looking
Jimmy Thackery / Eat it all
Candye Kane / All you can eat
Mighty Joe Young / Chicken heads
Janiva Magness / Eat the lunch you brought
David Bennett Cohen / Cookin’ with Cohen
Junior Wells / Broke & Hungry
Robert Lucas / 50lbs of bone
Howlin Wolf / 300lbs of joy
Jimmy Rogers / Last meal
Little Milton / Grits ain’t groceries
Marcia Ball / 300lbs of hungry
Duke Robillard / I may be ugly but I sure can cook.
Big Joe Turner / Christmas Boogie
Liz Mandeville / Home cookin’
Lil’ Ed Williams / Chicken gravy & biscuits
Delta Moon / Slow Country Boil
Guy Davis / Thanksgiving Day
Albert Collins / Don’t go reach across my plate

Play List for Thursday November 20th 2008

I've ben a bit busy lately, what playing in two bands (rehearsing really) and working in the wood product business. With todays woeful economy any job, be it stessful or not, is a good thing. But if you really want a good time try selling an endless supply of building products in a market when these very little building going on. Anywho this set list was basily another installment of good songs (at least I thought so) for some of my favorite, and I have lots of farorites which make this DJ thing most enjoyable. I played a song fror Carolyn Wonderland's new disc, she tends to scream too much for my taste, but she is an amazing artist. I also threw some new Lil' Dave Thompson in there and finished with two songs from Susan Tedeschi's new CD. I love Susan, she could sing the newspaper (even in today's tough times) and I would love her. Hope you caught the show, and be sure to check out my Thanksgiving Day show where I'll be playing songs about food, eating too much and that sort of thing.

Duke Robillard / This Dream
Carolyn Wonderland / I live alone with a stranger.
William Clarke / Letter from home
Big Time sarah / Don’t make me pay
Johnny B Moore / Why do you wanna treat me like that
Earl King / Seduction
Michelle Wilson / Wake up call
Ronnie Earl / Mother Angel
Rusty Zinn / Ain’t that some shame
Luther Guitar Jr. Johnson / I’m ready
Shirley Johnson / Killer Diller
Maggie Burrell / Pride & Joy
James Harman / Love Stuff
Duffy Bishop / Bath of love
Coco Montoya / Fool
Dave Gross / Baby, won’t you please come home
Pat Boyack / Mexican Vodka
WC Clark / Snatch it back and hold it
Lil’ Dave Thompson / The feeling is gone
Charlie Musselwhite / Sat & cried
Little Lynn and the Smoking Souls / Don’t cry when we’re dancing
Johnny Dyer / Aw Baby
Junior Wells / Little by Little
Floyd McDaniel / Blue Mood
Detroit Jr. / Call my job
Johnny Adams / Up & down world
Jimmy Thackery / Buford’s Bop
Susan Tedeschi / Learning the hard way
Susan Tedeschi / Butterfly
Lluis Coloma & Bob Seeley / Swanee River

Play List for Thursday October 2nd 2008

I started the morning off with a half hour of Portland / Eugene based blues artists, and could have rolled into a full hour quite easily. The amount of talented musicians that have called Eugene home is extraordinary.
We have been getting so much new music in so I thought I should try to spin a fair amount of new stuff into my show this morning.
Kudos go out to our Sunday morning host Boogieking Steve for his relentless efforts in making sure KRVM is on the cutting edge of new blues music and deserving artists world wide. Thanks Steve! This morning some of the new stuff that I played and really enjoyed was Irma Thomas’s “In Grand Style”, Rory Block’s “Blues Walking like a Man” and Clarence Spady’s “Just Between Us. So much music, so little time. Tune in next week for more blues music, it’s good for you soul!

Paul Delay / Ocean of tears
The Strange Tones / I idolize you
Curtis Salgado / Little Charmer
Lloyd Jones / Don’t call me today
Linda Hornbuckle & Janice Scoggins
Terry Robb / Fahey at Bush Park
Irma Thomas / Early in the morning
Buddy Guy / Skin deep
Chris James & Patrick Rynn / Stop and think about it
Clarence Spady / Won’t be this way always
Phillip Walker / How long must I wait
John Mayall / Please Mr. Lofton
Sunnyland Slim / She’s so mellow
Alex Schultz / Let’s start again
Caroline Wonderland / I found the lions
Carlos Del Junco / Dull blade
Pinetop Perkins / Sweet home Chicago
Muddy Waters / Too young to know
Muddy Waters / Land lady
Irma Thomas & Norah Jones / Thinking about you
Mike Morgan / What do that mean
Roxy Perry / Goodbye Honey
Darrel Nulisch / Feel like ramblin’
Paul Rishell / Devil got my woman
John Cambelljohn / Weight of the world
Tinsley Ellis / Wanted man
Rory Block / Depot blues
Joe Louis Walker / Rollin’ & Tumblin’
Guitar Slim / Later for you baby
Otis Taylor / My soul is in Louisiana
John Cambelljohn / Autobahn John
Clarence Spady / E-mail

Play List for Thursday September 18th 2008

It seems we spend a lot of time searching for the next hot young artist, or the next undiscovered talent. When in fact there are so many great artists that we already know about that have recorded so many great songs. The funny thing is that all this great old stuff is what has inspired so many of the artists that are trying to be the next big thing. Sometimes it’s just fun to build a show around some of the many staples of this great music we call the blues.

Jimmy Thackery / Hit the big time
Delta Moon / Blind Spot
Omar & the Howlers / Muddy springs road
Robert Ward / Something good .. driving the devil nuts
Sam Taylor / Back against the wall
Charles Walker / Nothing a young girl can do
Lavay Smith / I want a little boy
Magic Slim / Let me love you
Magic Slim / Going down the road feeling bad
Toni Price / Out the front door
Robert Johnson / Crossroad blues
Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie / When the levee breaks
Memphis Minnie / I hate to see the sun go down
Son House / Preachin’ Blues
John Mooney / Son’s Blues
Floyd Miles / No life at all
Snooky Pryor / My baby been gone
Stevie Ray Vaughan / Ain’t gonna give up on love
Smoking Joe Kubek / Mellow down easy
Susan Tedeschi / Sweet Forgiveness
Ruthie Foster / Heal yourself
Eric Bibb / Destiny Blues
Guy Davis / Come Back Baby
Hubert Sumlin & Darrel Nulish / Just like I treat you
Byther Smith / This little voice
Junior Wells / Shaky ground
Rusty Zinn / Talkin’ ‘bout you
Sean Costello / Hard luck woman
Delta Moon / Jessie Mae
Little Charlie & The Nightcats / My next ex-wife
Jimmy Thackery / XXX Wife

Play List for Thursday September 4th 2008

There was really no pre-planning involved in putting this mornings show together. I knew I would start with the song “black-eyed peas” from Carey Bell’s very fine “Heartaches & Pain” CD, but beyond that I was flying by the seat of my pants so to speak. All in all I did manage to mix in some new material from the likes of Pinetop Perkins, James Hinkle, Fiona Boyes and Buddy Guy. I threw in some classic artist like Albert King, Charles Brown and Mississippi Fred McDowell. I Featured a few songs by some lesser know artists like Kathy Walker Gary Allegretto and Cathy Lemmons. Then I finished the show with some guitar laden songs from Lil’ Dave Thompson, Jimmy Thackery and Duke Robillard. I had fun, and judging from some listener feedback we did okay. Tune in next week. Who knows what we’ll be up to.

Carey Bell / Black-eyed peas
Big Bill Morganfield / Hoochie Coochie girl
Johnny Dyer / Don’t know why
Pinetop Perkins / Bad luck baby
James Hinkle / Some Day
Francine Reed / I have the right to sing the blues
Charles Brown / Every little bit hurts
Paul Oscher / Work that stuff
Sherrie Williams / I’m here to stay
The Boneshakers / Part time man
Albert King / I can’t hear nothing but the blues
Victoria Spivey / You’re my man
Buddy Guy / I found happiness
Mississippi Fred McDowell / 61 Highway
Mississippi Fred McDowell / Worried mind
Eric Deaton / When I see you
Fiona Boyes and Mookie Brill / Early in the morning
Kathy Walker / Fat Daddy
Gary Allegretto / Tattoo of truth
Cathy Lemmons Band / Good morning little school boy
Mitch Woods / Parchman farm
Tommy Castro / Sho’ enough
Deanna Bogart / Baby you got what it takes
Mississippi John Hurt / Stack o Lee
Mr. B / My Sunday Best
The Strangetones / Sweet spot
Lil Dave Thompson / Got to get over you
Jimmy Thackery / Empty arm hotel
Duke Robillard / Fishnet
Jimmy Thackery / Hobarts blues

Play List for Thursday August 28th 2008

Another fun Thursday morning breakfast with the blues show on KRVM 91.9. This week I showcased a really great new album from Lloius Coloma. Llouis is quite an accomplished piano player and he has rounded up about 10 other piano players including Mitch Woods, Bob Seeley and Carl Sonny Leyland. This album cooks with great dual grand piano instrumentals. Every song on this CD would fit nicely into my Thursday morning play lists. This show’s song list covered a lot of popular artist, from the past and present.

Charlie Musselwhite / Little Star
Etta James / At last
Guitar Shorty / I don’t know why
George “Harmonica” Smith / I left my heart in San Francisco
Paul Delay / Brave woman
Llouis Coloma & Mitch Woods / Red Beans Cookin’
John Fohl / High & Lonesome clouds
Taj Mahal / Checkin’ up on my baby
Memphis Slim / Call before you go home
Bob Margolin / Falling star
Sonny Boy Williamson / Stop right now
Llouis Coloma & Bob Seeley / Swanee River Boogie
Lowell Fulson / Just one more time
Doug Sahm / You never get too big, you never get too heavy…..
Little Walter / Hate to see you go
Gatemouth Brown / Long way home
Charlie Musselwhite / Walking alone
Carolyn Wonderland / I live alone with someone
Llouis Coloma & Carl Sonny Leland / CC Rider
Too Slim & the Taildraggers / Chicken shake
Muddy Waters / Lonesome road blues
Mary Flower / Raise the devil
Sweet Angel / Hard times were the good times
Tab Benoit / Good to ya baby
Big Joe Turner & T-Bone Walker / T-Bone Special
T-Bone Walker / I gat a break baby
Eddy “Cleanhead” Vinson / I need to be be’d with
Robben Ford / Indianola
James Hinkle / Ball & Chain
Delta Generators / All good things must come to and end
David Brinston / Sometimes you win
Canned heat / Looking for a party.

Play List for Thursday August 14th 2008

Back from a week away from my Thursday morning Breakfast with the blues show. I’d like to give Chef Gail & Boogie King Steve a big thanks for filling in for me. I’m sure that they did me proud with a marvelous blues show! I was lucky enough to truck it over to Joseph, OR and catch the Bronze, Brews & Blues festival there. It was a great experience in a beautiful setting. Joseph and the surrounding areas are visually stunning. We camped at the Wallowa State campground at the base of Mt Howard and it was a very nice relaxing time. I think anyone who is into blues music and likes living in Oregon should head on over and check out the festival. I wouldn’t recommend driving over just for the festival, because it is 440 miles from Eugene, but you plan it right it can be a lot of fun. We loaded up my 1975 VW bus and headed out on Thursday, made a stop in Hood River for some golf. Stopped in Pendleton and slept in a tee-pee. Got up Friday morning and had a great breakfast buffet at the Wildhorse Casino (yeah we were roughing it), played another round of golf. Then headed on over the hill to Joseph and pulled into camp around 6.
One of the highlights of the festival was getting to see the Ty Curtis Band in that setting. They put on a good show, with a great mix of music and I’m sure that they won over some new fans. Other highlights of the festival was The Strangetones. They stoled the show for me, what a cool band, with great original tunes and a tight choreographed performance. Too Slim and the Taildraggers had to endure a bad sound system experience, but worked their way through that and put on a good show for a waning but very enthusiastic crowd. A very good time!
This morning’s show started off basic enough with Albert Collins tied in with Coco Montoya and Debbie Davis. And as usual I weaved my way through some new stuff, a couple old classics and everything in between. I was happy to play Jimmy Rogers’ classic (one of the best all time blues songs) “That’s all right”, and BB King’s often covered but always good “Rock me baby”, done quite nicely by Mighty Joe Young. Tune in next week and check it out, because it my job to make our community a better place “one song at a time”.
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Albert Collins / Lights are on but nobody’s home
Coco Montoya / Running away from love
Debbie Davies / Room with a view
EG Kight / Roses & Promises
Curtis Salgado / 20 years of BB King
BB King / The thrill is gone
Big bill Broonzy / Ridin’ on down
Eden Brent / Darkness on the delta
Cepas & Wiggins / Mamie
Zora Young / Bus station blues
Otis Span / Green flowers
James Harman / The twins
James Harman / Dirt road
The Strangetones / Kathryn’s style
The Strangetones / That’s how we roll
Ty Curtis / Treat me this way
Chris James & Patrick Ryan / Got to move
Ford Blues Band / One more heartache
Hollywood Blueflames / Jo Angelyn
EG Kight / Sugar
Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughan / Jimmy Reed Highway
Catherine Russell / Don’t care who knows
Johnny B Moore / Walking the streets
Jimmy Rogers / That’s all right
Mighty Joe Young / Rock me baby
Janiva Magness / Every dog has his day
Too Slim & the Taildraggers / Doghouse
Chris Cain / Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
Canned Heat Stranger Blues
Canned Heat / Terraplane blues

Platlist for July 24th 2008

Another fun filled Thursday morning breakfast with the blues. No real pre-planning this morning, but it seems like it only takes a song or two to inspire me to move off in one direction or another anyway. I did play music from a few of my favorite records like Otis Spann’s “Biggest Thing since Colossus” which feature early Fleetwood Mac members. A couple other favorites were Otis Rush’s “Anyplace I’m Going” and Champion Jack Dupree’s “Blues From The Gutter” I consider all three of those CD’s an essential part of my blues collection. A new CD that I like and got to play this morning was Eric Deaton’s “Gonna Be Trouble Here” he’s another young outstanding musician that I’d never heard before, but I like his stripped down style. Beyond that I played Koko Taylor’s new “Old School” CD. She recently won a blues foundation award for that recording, but from what I can tell the award was one of those due respect awards because she has put out a lot better stuff over the course of her career. But I’m glad she is being recognized for the great performer that she is. She’s earned the respect. I finished the morning off with sort of a Latin flare with songs from Duke Robillard, Sue Foley and Charlie Musselwhite. I was happy to get two phone calls from listeners that appreciated Sue Foley’s Mediterranean Breakfast. One more Thursday morning show in the books, KRVM doing our part to make our community a better place “One song at a time”.

Arthur Adams / Who does she think she is
BB King / 3 O’clock Blues
Shirley Johnson / Unchain my heart
Elvin Bishop & Little Smokey Smothers / Pleading with you
Mercy Dee / One room country shack
Why / Chris Thomas King
Homemade Jamz Band / Time for a change
Eric Deaton / Alap
Eric Deaton / Already Spent
Otis Spann / My love depends on you
Otis Rush / Laughin’ & clownin’
Bobby Rush / Get back
Bobby Parker / I call her baby
Junior Parker / Crying for my baby
Junior Wells / Someday baby
Sunnyland Slim / It’s you baby
Muddy Waters / Country Boy
Champion Jack Dupree / Evil Woman
Koko Taylor / You ain’t worth a good woman
Little Charlie / Real Love
Etta James You can leave your hat on
Big Mama Thornton & Johnny Ace / Yes baby
Chuck Willis / CC Rider
Marie Adams / I’m gonna play the honky tonks
ZZ Hill / Everyone knows my good thing
Little Milton / I’ll be
Johnny Taylor / Drown in my own tears
Sonny Landreath / Taylor’s rock
Duke Robillard / You’re the only one that can move me
Sue Foley / Mediterranean Breakfast
Johnny Nichols / Honey dripping baby
Terry Hanck / Crying fool
Charlie Musselwhite / Siboney

Play List for Thursday July 10th 2008

Pinetop Perkins / I had my fun
Deanna Bogart / Blues in the bine
Shirley Johnson / The blues is all I’ve got
Tom McFarland / Blues at midnight
Delbert McClinton / I want to love
Johnny B Moore / It’s to late brother
Clara McDaniel / Wee Wee hours
Kenny Neal Broken Dreams
Luther GJ Johnson / In my younger days
Pinetop Perkins / Pinetop’s boogie woogie
Billy Boy Arnold Black gal blues
Freddy Robinson / Changing dreams
Toni Price / Feel like cryin’
Rusty Zinn & Kim Wilson / Moanin’ for my baby
Joe Louis Walker / Shake for me
Ty Curtis Band / Down on my luck
Eric Deaton / Gonna be trouble here
Alvin Youngblood Hart / Stomp Dance
Jerry Zybach / Cuppers Road
Eric Bibb / Lovin’ in my baby’s eyes
Lady Bianca / Oprah Winfrey show
Deanna Bogart / Are you lonely for me baby
Johnny Adams / Going out of my mind sale
Nick Moss & the Fliptops / Mistakes from the past
Mannish Boys / You don’t love me
Phillip Walker / My name is misery
Deitra Farr / How much longer
Ruthie Foster / Small town blues
Johnny Jenkins / Miss Thing

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.

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

Playlist for Thursday April 24th 2008

Just another average Thursday morning blues show on 91.9 KRVM. I threw some new stuff in there from the Mannish Boys featuring Johnny Dyer with a nice version of Willie Dixons Same Thing. Also featured a semi-new song from Mary Flower from a new compilation disc just out on Yellowdog records, a very fine CD, and something from Perry Weber. I'd never heard of him before checking out this CD, and I really liked it. Looking foward to playing more on future shows. Be sure to tune in next week!

Robert Cray / Jealouos Minds
Little Milton / Think of me (Thinking of you)
Mannish Boys / Same Thing
John Mooney / Levee Camp Moan
Mary Flower / Raise the Devil
Willie (Big Eyes) Smith /Same as you live
Mississippi Heat / Mudcat Hop
Paul Lamb / The Pillow
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee / Feel like robbing the grave
Perry Weber / Hot Tounge / Cold Shoulder
Eddie (Cleanhead) Vinson / Things aint what they used to be
Jimmy Morello / Put down that bottle
Otis Rush / Take alook behind
Hubert Sumlin / Groove
Howlin' Wolf / I'm the wolf
Tab Benoit / Good To ya baby
Mississippi Heat / Heartbroken
Billy Boy Aronld / Gonna leave and let her be
Jessie Mae Hemphill / Standing in the doorway crying
Cepas & Wiggins / Dirt Road
WC Clark / I've been searching
Keb Mo / Angelina
Susan Tedeschi / You got the silver
Bonnie Raitt / I will not be denied
Guitar Shorty / I got your number
James Wheeler / Weaker sex
Stacia Petrie / Shine on out
Charlie Musselwhite / Church is out
Marcia Ball / I Wish You Well

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

Play List for Thursday March 27th 2008

Today's playlist might have been a little heavy on electric guitar, but enjoyable none the less. I threw in some old standars from the likes of Memphis Slim, Johnny Copeland, Little Walter and Big Maybelle, and played two from John Mayall's latest CD "In the Palace of the King". Next week I'll feature a live interview with local artist Bajuana Tea, so maybe next week I'll take a more mellow acoustic approach with the show, then again who knows.

It’s a Shame / Willie Mabon
Wish Me Well / Memphis Slim
I Don't Care / Long John Hunter
Dynamite / Slim Harpo
Coming To See About You / Johnny Copeland
That ain't Right / Doug Macleod
Fishin' Hole / Moreland & Arbuckle
Bring That Thing / Harry Manx
You Got Me Wrong / Billy Boy Arnold
My Heart Cries Out For You / Anson Funderburgh
Hard Knock / Fabulous Thunderbirds
Broke / Albert Collins
The Thrill Is Gone / Byther Smith
No Good / BB King
T.V. Mama / Champion Jack Dupree
Oh Baby / Canned Heat
My Babe / Little Walter
Going Home Baby / Big Maybelle
Spider and the Fly / John Hammond
Going Home Tomorrow / Alberta Adams
Broke in Pieces / Johnny Bassett
Let’s Go Out Tonight / John Lee Hooker
Finger Lickin’ Good / Charlie Musselwhite
Bad Situation / Chris Cain
Will You Think Of Me / Robert Cray
Billie Jean / Mel Brown
Some Other Day Some Other Time / John Mayall
Now I got a Woman / John Mayall
Fool / Coco Montoya
Old News / Lloyd Jones
Don’t Think About It / Michael Bloomfield
Bullfrog Blues / Random Blues Band

Play List for Thursday March 20th 2008

This morning’s show was a lot of fun with lots of listeners calling in with positive comments. I played two songs from John Nemeth’s latest CD and new music from Alligator recording artists Michael Burks and Marcia Ball. As usual I had to play music from some of my many favorites, this morning it was Gatemouth Brown Albert King, and Freddy King. If you happened to catch part of the show, I hope you liked what you heard!

Bullfrog Blues / Canned Heat
Nobody’s Girl / Kara Maguire
Tommy McCoy / A Man Who Cried
Hi Line / The Belairs
My Ring / Jimmy Johnson
U Dawg Gone Right / Mac Arnold
The Land of Calio / Hollywood Blue Flames
Not Alone / Renee Austin
Nickels & Dimes / Lloyd Jones
Sit & Cry Blues / John Nemeth
Up to No Good / John Nemeth
Funky Thang / Mike Morgan & the Crawl
Root Doctor / Root Doctor
Can’t you see what You’re Doing to Me / Little Jimmy King
That’s what the Blues is All About / Albert King
Time I Came In Out of the Rain / Michael Burks
Ouchee Baby / Joe “Guitar” Hughes
Cry Like A Rainy Day / EG Kight
I Fell In Love on a One Night Stand / Gary BB Coleman
Helsinki Laundromat / James Harman & Kid Ramos
Blues Power / Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
I’d Rather Be Blind / Freddy King
Mother Angel / Ronnie Earl
Billie’s Blues / Janiva Magness
Gumbo Grinder / Fred Kaplan
Bad Boy / Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughan
Temptation / Kelley Hunt
Fire & Water / Michael Burks
Watermelon Time / Marcia Ball

Platlist for March 13th 2008

Playlist for Thursday March 13th 2008 Today's play list is a combination of pre-planned songs and songs that were inspired will doing the show. I played two songs from Sean Costello's new Delta Groove CD and thought they sounded real good. Another CD that I played, and really like is the new one from Al Basile, very cool stuff! I tried to mix in old and new, classic and lesser know. Let me know what you think.

Luther Tucker / Sweet Home Chicago
Charlie Musselwhite / Invisible Ones
Mojo Buford / Lonesome Highway
Sean Costello / Have You No Shame
Elmore James / Standing At The Crossroads
Robert Johnson / Love In Vain
Mississippi Fred McDowell / The Girl I'm Lovin
Robert Lockwood Jr / Big Legged Woman
Al Basile / Air Lift My Love
Kim Wilson / Your Funeral My Trial
Sonny Boy Williamson / Fattening Frogs For Snakes
Junior Wells / Hey Lawdy Mama
Otis Spann / Country Boy
Tab Benoit / Landromat Blues
Luther Guitar Jr Johnson / Time To Make My Getaway
Son Seal / Bad Luck Child
Kenny Neal Billy Branch / Going Down Slow
Magic Sam / Easy Baby
James Armstrong / Bank Of Love
Otis Rush / Pride & Joy
T-Bone Walker / You're My Best Poker Hand
Muddy Waters / Screamin' and Cryin'
Mannish Boys / Come On and Rock
Junior Watson / It's You
Sean Costello / Hard Luck Woman
Sista Monica / Never Say Never
Debbie Davies / Watch Your Step
Susan Tedeschi / It Hurt So Bad
Raful Neal / Blues On the Moon
The Strangetones / Pinto Sqire
Paul Delay / Life Is A Struggle
The Strangetones / I Idolize You
Delta Moon / Stranger In My Home Town
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