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
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