Playlist for thursday June 3rd 2010

I bought an old magnavox stereo console and cleaned it up and got it in good playing condition. I've been taking some of KRVM's old blues records home and ejoying getting to listen some great classic blues. You just can't dupicate the deep rich sound quality that you get with records.
I started this morning's show off with a great version of I'd rather go blind from the Queen of the blues herself Koko Taylor and that kind of set the tone for this morning show which was very heavy to Chicago blues, and you can't go wrong with that. Speaking of blues Royalty we had Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and his band in town a few weeks ago for a great performance, giving the crowd a wonderful taste of Chicago blues done by a couple of the guys that helped create it. Bob Stroger is the bass player in Willie "Big Eyes" band and he is one of the best! As he put it "He is the blues". He's played with just about any great Chicago blues artist you can think of, and he along with the late Willie Kent and Willie Dixon have helped to forge the great Chicago blues syle. Bob Stroger is good enough that he could have stole the show, but like the great bass player he is he knows his role is to lay down the bottom and help hold the band together. I got to tell you Bob Stroger and drummer James Mayes laid down one of the tightest rythem sections you'll hear anywhere. With that said, I thought it would be fun to do a show that featured Bob Stroger and some of the people that he's played with through the years. So I threw about 17 songs with that theme into the middle of this mornings show.

Koko Taylor / I'd rather go blind
Eric Lindell / Lay back down
Toni Price / Poor Little Fool
Fenton Robinson / Stormy Monday
Sean Costello / All yor love
Big Foot John / Cold, cold rainy day
Leroy Pierson / Long lonesome road
Leroy Pierson / Mole's moan
Otis Rush / Rainy night in Georgia
Luther "Houserocker" Johnson / Little car blues
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith & Pinetop Perkins / Cut that out
Carey Bell / Heartaches & pain
Big Leon Brooks / Sugar Mama
Aaron Moore / Just let me love you
Memphis Slim / Lend me your love
Billy Boy Arnold / Love me baby
Mark Hummel / Out on a limb
Otis Rush / Cold day in hell
Jimmy Rogers / Why'd you do it
Pinetop Perkins / Anna Lee
Snooky Pryor / Slow down baby
Eddie C Cambell / Poision Ivy
Steve Freund / Hung down head
James Wheeler / Weaker sex
Big Bill Morganfield / Cryin' Days
Ken Saydak / Watch the river flow
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith & Pinetop Perkins / I feel good
Albert Castigila / Catfish
Eric Lindell / I got a girl