Play List for Thursday February 26th 2009

I just cannot get enough of Guy Davis’s new CD “Sweetheart like you”. Guy Davis is an incredible talent, but this CD is over the top with great musicianship, well written originals and wonderfully arranged cover tunes. The 2 songs I played on today’s show are just 2 of the 14 choice cuts. I also threw in 2 songs from Nick Moss’s latest release “Play it ‘til tomorrow, which is a fine 2 CD set of raw great guitar riff laden song that you can enjoy over and over. Beyond that this mornings how was a typical Thursday morning breakfast with the blues show filled with some of my favorite songs and artists.

Guy Davis / Sweet Hannah
James Harman / Last clean shirt
Precious Bryant / You gonna mess up a good thing
Alvin Youngblood Hart / In my time of dying
Nick Moss & the Fliptops / The rump bump
Nick Moss & the Fliptops / Mistakes from the past
RG Mischo / South city fog
Freddy King / Pack it up
Rick Holmstrom / Last to know
Etta James / 99 ½ wont due
Tinsley Ellis / Wanted man
Harry Manx / Can’t be satisfied
David Egan / Love honor & obey
Dave Specter / Killer Jack
Eden Brent / Why don’t you do right
Otis Rush / Don’t burn down the bridge
Otis Spann / It was a big thing
Ruthie Foster / You keep me hanging on
He Strangetones / I ain’t moving
Deborah Coleman / Memory lane
Little Jimmy King / Unlovable
Taj Mahal / Corina
Son Seals / Love had a breakdown
Guy Davis / Angels are calling
Duke Robillard / Down around the cove
Jimmy Thackery / I’ll come running back to you
John Hammond / Spider & the fly
Guitar Shorty / Little less conversation
Johnny Jenkins / The pinetopper theme

Play List for Thursday February 19th 2009

I received sad news Wednesday afternoon that New Orleans blues artist Snooks Eaglin passed away. He certainly will be sorely missed. His ability to play a wide range of songs and his ability to perfectly understand and make the tunes his own earned him the nickname the "human jukebox." Eaglin claimed in interviews that his musical repertoire included some 2,500 songs. At live shows, he did not usually prepare set lists, and was unpredictable, even to his band mates. He played songs that come to his head, and he also took requests from the audience. Eaglin lost his sight not long after his first birthday after being stricken with glaucoma, and spent several years in the hospital with other ailments. Around the age of five Eaglin was given a guitar by his father, which he taught himself to play by listening to and playing with the radio. In 1947, at the age of 11, Eaglin won a talent contest organized by radio station WNOE by playing "Twelfth Street Rag". Three years later, he dropped out of the school for the blind to become a professional musician. In 1952, Eaglin joined the Flamingoes, a local 7-piece band started by Allen Toussaint. The Flamingoes didn't have a bass player, and according to Eaglin, he played both the guitar and the bass parts at the same time on his guitar. He stayed with The Flamingoes for several years, until their dissolution in the mid-50s. I’ve always been a huge fan of Snooks Eaglin, his music will continue to entertain and inspire listeners on Thursday morning “Breakfast with the Blues”.
RL Burnside / Let my baby ride
Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcolm / So much love
Delta Moon / Trouble in the home
Guy Davis / Slow motion daddy
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee / Cold wind blowing
Snooks Eaglin / Let me go home whisky
Damon Fowler / Some fun
Nick Moss / I’ll be straight with you
Snooks Eaglin / Travlin’ mood
Snooks Eaglin / Don’t take it so hard
Champion Jack Dupree / Under your hood
EG Kight / Through the eyes of a child
Broh – Taylor / Little by little
WC Clark / I’ve been searching
Sue Foley / Here comes the sun
Snooks Eaglin / It’s your thing
Snooks Eaglin / You & me
Jimmy Rogers / Gold tailed bird
Muddy Waters / I won’t go on
Karen Lovely / Too little, too late
Ruthie Foster / Tears of pain
Damon Fowler / Sugar Lee
John Mooney / Buried Treasure
Broh – Taylor / Better off with the blues
Debbie Davies / Watch your step
Snooks Eaglin / I’m not ashamed
Susan Tedeschi / The feeling music brings
Larry Garner / High on music
Luther Tucker / Sweet home Chicago
Carey Bell / Blues with a feeling
Keith Crossan / Huggy Bare

Play List for Thursday February 5th 2009

Busy morning with lots of nice phone calls from some of our loyal listeners / supporters. It was a fun show, but I felt like I was chasing my tail most of the time. I played a couple from Billy Flynn’s new CD “Blues Drive”. Billy has been involved in the Chicago blues scene since the mid. 80’s. He’s performed with countless Chicago players including Jimmy Dawkins, The Legendary Blues Band. Mississippi Heat, Jody Williams, Little Arthur Duncan, Willie Kent and many more. I’m looking forward to taking this double CD home and indulging myself with a good blues recording. I did take Chris Duarte’s new CD home and I have to call’em as I see’em, or in this case as I hear’em. I became a fan of Chris Duarte when I heard his 1994 “Texas Sugar / Strat Magik” album. His SRV type style and ability was no doubt impressive. I hung in there with his 1997 “Tailspin Headwack”, which was not really a blues album, or a rock album, but there was enough good music to keep me interested and entertained. Unfortunately in my opinion he hasn’t put out a CD since 1997 that is something anyone over sixteen would want to listen to. Counting his recent release “396 Chris Duarte & Bluestone Co.” Chris Duarte has put out one loud wildly annoying CD after another. His last 5 CDs are just the same album recorded over and over. His intense, “lets see how many notes we can loudly slash out there” in a steady steam of average songs is disappointing. Chris, who is your target audience? When can we expect something more than “look at me, I’m a great guitar player listen to all this fury”. You’re almost 50, give us something new, something I can put in my stereo that doesn’t make me a nervous wreck and have my wife and kids yelling at me to turn it down. I want to be a fan again. Maybe I could be your manager.

James Cotton / Sunny Road
Ann Rabson / Let me go home whiskey
SE Willis / Love in vain / Six more miles
Dennis Gruenling & Kim Wilson / As long as I have you
Charlie Musselwhite / Where have all the good times gone
Nina Simone / Nobody’s fault but mine
Gatemouth Brown /Old folks cry a lot more (these days)
Magic Slim You can’t lose what you never had
Snooky Pryor / When things go wrong with you
Billy Flynn / Lady J
Marcia Ball & Dr. John / I’ll never be free
Karen Lovely / A little mixed up
Andrew Jr. Boy Jones / Make Some Changes
David Jacob – Strain / Rainbow junkies
Roy Rogers / Work hard for the money
Chris Cain / On this fine morning
Billy Flynn / Blue Mood
Susan Tedeschi / Butterfly
Smokin’ Joe Kubek / Saw it coming
Jimmy Dawkins / I finally learned my lesson
Chris Thomas King / Soon this morning
HooDoo Kinga / Hard Times
HooDoo Kings / If I don’t be there by morning
Lowell Fulson / Tramp
John Lee Hooker & Van Morrison / Dimples
Junior Watson / Call everybody sweetheart
Johnnie Bassett / Cadillac Blues
Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whitely / Birds that whistle
Carl Weathersby / Poverty
Nick Moss / Fill’er up