Play List for Thursday January 29th 2009

We’ve gotten a lot of new music in over the past couple of weeks. Whether it’s a new release from a popular blues artist or a CD from someone I’ve never heard of it’s always fun to check the new stuff out. My thoughts are that if someone is willing to send our little radio station (thanks mostly to the efforts of our Sunday blues host BoogieKing Steve) their sweat and soul recorded on a disc, the least I can do is give it a listen and put it out on the airways if I can. For instance, I’ve never heard of Cookie and the Vasrantz, but when I listened to it I really liked it. Cookie has a nice voice the song selection and musicians are good. It was also nice to get something new from John Nemeth. He’s one of those guys that deserves to break through to the next level. He has the whole package, good vocals, great harp player, original tunes and a tight band. His new CD sounds good, hopefully it’ll give him some momentum. Other new CD’s that I played were Shemekia Copeland’s “Never going back” and something for an east coast group Lil’ Cliff and the Cliffhangers. The CD title “God Bless Women” and artwork inspired me to take a closer look at it. I didn’t get a chance to listen to the entire recording, but I can tell you we’ll be playing the hell out of the title track. It is a fun catchy well written tune that makes the CD worth having for that song alone. Nuff said. We’ll keep the blues rolling!

Paul Delay / Can’t stand you evil ways
Koko Taylor / Come to mama
Sugar Ray Norcia / You better change your way of loving
Big Mama Thornton / Hound dog
Magic Sam / I need you so bad
Earl Hooker / Blue Guitar
Buddy Guy / One room country shack
Otis Spann / Sometimes I wonder
Carey Bell / I cry so much
Jimmy Burns / Hard road
Mississippi John Hurt / Creole Belle
Mississippi John Hurt / Casey Jones
Guy Davis / Steamboat Captain
Guy Davis / Can’t be satisfied
Phantom Blues Band / Rain down tears
Curtis Salgado & Terry Robb / Still a fool
Koko Taylor / Wang Dang Doodle
Lil’ Clff and the Cliffhangers / God Bless Women
Erin McCallum / Here I am
Debbie Davies / Going back to Iuka
Robben Ford / Oasis
Shemekia Copeland / Limousine
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan
Cookie and the Vasrantz / You can have my husband
Cookie and the Vasrantz / If you love me like you say
John Nemeth / My troubled mind
John Nemeth / Love me tonight
Anni Piper / Mystery of love
Rusty Zinn / Dying on the vine
BB King / You done lost you’re good thing
T-Bone Walker / Papa ain’t salty
John Mayall / Some other place some other time
Little Walter / Roller Coaster

Play List for Thursday January 15th 2009

Having spent the last three weeks away from the radio station you would think that I would have a long list of songs that I wanted to play on my show when I got back into the swing of things. Truth is I decided last night that I would start my show with Debbie Davies and Deborah Coleman. This would buy me some time to look through the cabinets and pull out some more choice ditties. All in all I’d same despite my lack of pre-planning the show went fairly well. It was a fun entertaining show (I think) and I thought everything flowed together pretty well. I didn’t play much new stuff this morning, concentrating instead on some of the more familiar “mainstream” blues artists, if there is such a thing as mainstream artists in the oft-ignored blues music. It’s good to be back, and I would to thank our Sunday morning host BoogieKing Steve for coming on Christmas Day “for crying out loud” and again on New Years Day. Thank goodness for his help, I physically could not have made the 5:30 AM show on New Years Day, especially since I was puking my guts out at 3:00 AM in my front yard. I’m sure my neighbors (no question a few of them had to have heard me) were happy to see me start the New Year the same way I always do. Happy New Year!

Debbie Davies / 24 hour fool
Deborah Coleman / Soft place to fall
Mike Schermer & Howard Tate / Part time love
Sugar Pie Desanto / Blues hall of fame
James Hunter / Mollena
Jeremy Spencer / Bleeding Heart
Albert Collins / Cash Talkin’
Phillip Walker / My name is misery
Big Foot John / Walking Man
Insomnicas / Shake the chandelier
Karen Lovely / It’s too late
Janiva Magness / Workin’ on me baby
Magic Slim / The man you need
David Egan / Drinking bourbon from a cup
Susan Tedeschi / Little by little
WC Clark / A certain girl
EG Kight / I want you just ‘cause I want you
Joe Guitar Hughes / Movin’ to the country
Larry Garner / Thank you Mr. King
BB King / The world gone wrong
BB King / The thrill is gone
Darrel Nulish / Good night
Curtis Salgado / 20 years of BB King
Janiva Magness / I’m gonna play the honky tonks
Taj Mahal / Senor blues
Jerry Zybach / Thing I like to do
Eddie C Campbell/ Busted
Tommy Castro / Nasty Habits
Alex Schultz / It’s your thing