Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson (Christmas Date Boogie); Lowell Fulson (Lonesome Christmas (Part 1)); Smokey Hogg (My Christmas Baby); Blind Lemon Jefferson (Christmas Eve Blues); Victoria Spivey (Christmas Morning Blues); B.B. King (Christmas Celebration); Albert King (Be On Your Merry Way); Freddie King (Christmas Tears); Sonny Boy Williamson (Christmas Morning Blues); Sonny Boy Williamson II (Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues); Michael Burks (Christmas Snow); Son Seals (Lonesome Christmas); Elzadie...
Dec 19, 2009•1 hr 1 min
Kirk Fletcher (Don't Go No Further); Taj Mahal (Leaving Trunk); Dupree 'n' McPhee (The Snow Is On The Ground); Blind Willie McTell (Cold Winter Day); Ratcliff Bailey (A Rough Couple Of Days); Hamilton Loomis (Best Worst Day); Sonny Boy Williamson II (Your Funeral My Trial); Howlin' Wolf (How Many More Years); J.B. Hutto (That's The Truth); J.B. Lenoir (Mojo Boogie); Albert Ammons (Shout For Joy); Pete Johnson (Pete's Blues No. 2); Jim Thompkins (Bedside Blues); Sister Rosetta Tharpe (I Want Jesu...
Dec 12, 2009•1 hr
Ricky Gene Hall and The Goods (Bad Is Bad); Billy Lavender (Bad Boy); Josh White (Silicosis Is Killing Me); Victoria Spivey (Dirty T.B. Blues); Storme (Something's Gotta Give); Bobby 'Blue' Bland (Farther Up The Road); Paul Cowley (Memphis Jug Blues); Memphis Jug Band (Stealin' Stealin'); Victor Wainwright and The Wildroots (School Of Hard Knocks); Garfield Akers (Dough Roller Blues); Jack Gowdlock (Rollin' Dough Blues); Freddie King (Same Old Blues); Sippie Wallace (A Jealous Woman Like Me); Be...
Dec 05, 2009•1 hr 1 min
Popa Chubby (Lookin' Back); Harry Manx (That Knowing Look Of Fate); Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie (Carry Me Away); Gren Bartley (Carry Her Safe); Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Trouble In Mind); Mississippi John Hurt (Trouble I Had All My Days); Sylvester Weaver (Devil Blues); Carey and Lurrie Bell (Low Down Dirty Shame); Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins (Snatch It And Grab It); Big Joe Williams and J.D. Short (Sweet Old Kokomo); Tommy Castro (If I Had A Nickel); Pinetop Perkins (Anna Lee); Black River Bluesman and...
Nov 28, 2009•1 hr 1 min
B.B. King (Better Not Look Down); Paul deLay Band (Who Will Be Next?); Sugar Blue (Shed No Tears); Willie Reed (Dreaming Blues); Oscar Woods (Lone Wolf Blues); Chris Smither (Don't Call Me Stranger); Tom Doughty (Hound Dog Blues); Bukka White (Bukka's Jitterbug Swing); Samuel James (Miss Noreen); Otis Taylor (Little Liza Jane); Blind Blake and Leola B. Wilson (Black Biting Bee Blues); Big Mama Thornton (Bumble Bee); Harmonica Red (A Room With A View); Tommy Johnson (Cool Drink Of Water Blues); P...
Nov 21, 2009•1 hr
Buddy Guy (Your Mind Is On Vacation); Eddie Boyd (Cool Kind Treatment); Louis Jordan (Nobody But Me); Paul Lamb and Johnny Dickinson (Hesitation Blues); Reverend Gary Davis (I Am The Light Of This World); Blind Boy Fuller (Corrine What Makes You Treat Me So?); James 'Boodle It' Wiggins (Corinne Corinna Blues); Bonnie Lee (Breakin' Up Somebody's Home); Teresa James and The Rhythm Tramps (In And Out Of Love); Sam Chatmon (Cold Blooded Murderer); Blind Willie McTell ( Scarey Day Blues); Watermelon ...
Nov 14, 2009•1 hr 1 min
Muddy Waters (The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll (#2)); T-Model Ford (Sail On); Mia Vermillion (I'm Goint To Copyright Your Kisses); Donna Greene and The Roadhouse Daddies (Comes Love); Richard Ray Farrell (Let's Get Drunk Again); Lonnie Johnson (Fine Booze And Heavy Dues); Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes (Someday Baby); Schoolboy Cleve (Strange Letter Blues); Sean Taylor (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues); The R+B Bombers (Bad Behavior); Jay Gaunt (Queen Of The Tenderloin); Clifford Gibson (...
Nov 07, 2009•1 hr
This week a Bullfrog Brown special, with an interview with guitarist Andres Roots and music from most of the band's CDs, plus tracks from John Hammond Jr, Black River Bluesman and Alaska Kalan.
Oct 31, 2009•1 hr 1 min
Chris James and Patrick Rynn (Stop And Think About It); Eric Bibb (Dr. Shine); Samuel James (The Water's Always Changing, But The River...); Jimmy Rushing (Did You Ever); Big Joe Turner (Trouble In Mind); The Blues Overdrive (Out In The Country); Deborah Coleman (Bending Like A Willow Tree); Snooky Pryor and The Country Blues (Call The Doctor); T-Bone Walker (Go Back To The One You Love); Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King (The Pleasure Was All Mine); Hambone Willie Newbern (Way Down In Arkansas);...
Oct 24, 2009•1 hr
Bernie Marsden (Steppin' In); Koko Taylor (Come To Mama); Donna Greene and The Roadhouse Daddies (Baby Get Lost); Eddie Shaw and The Wolf Gang (Sitting On Top Of The World); Mississippi Sheiks (West Jackson Blues); Corey Harris and Henry Butler (If You Let A Man Kick You Once); Big Boy Cleveland (Goin' To Leave You Blues); Lottie Kimbrough (Goin' Away Blues); Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes (Done Got Tired Of Tryin'); Skip James (Yola My Blues Away); Tinsley Ellis (A Quitter Never Wins); Bo Weavil Jackson (...
Oct 17, 2009•1 hr
Hound Dog Taylor and The Houserockers (Dust My Broom); Moreland and Arbuckle (Gonna Send Ya Back To Georgia); Sonny Terry (Custard Pie Blues); Little Walter (Juke); Debbie Davies (24 Hour Fool); Susan Tedeschi (Just Won't Burn); Country Jim Bledsoe (Dial 110 Blues); Blind Lemon Jefferson (See That My Grave's Kept Clean); Albert King (Driving Wheel); Wynonie Harris (Here Comes The Blues); Victor Wainwright and The Wildroots (Long Way To Go); Louisiana Red and Little Victor's Juke Joint (Too Poor ...
Oct 10, 2009•1 hr
The Homemade Jamz Blues Band (I Got Blues For You); Candye Kane (Hey! Toughen Up!); Clifton Chenier (Louisiana Blues); Tab Benoit (When A Cajun Man Gets The Blues); Carl Martin (Farewell To You, Baby); Mance Lipscomb (Farewell); Doctor Clayton (Ain't Gonna Drink No More); Doctor Clayton's Buddy (Nappy Head Woman); Sunnyland Slim (Be Careful How You Vote); Freddie King (Living On The Highway); Matt Schofield (Woman Across The River); Tommy McClennan (I'm A Guitar King); Son House (Mississippi Cou...
Oct 03, 2009•1 hr
Trouble And Strife (I Got The Blues); Tas Cru (Grizzle N' Bone); Bobby Grant (Lonesome Atlanta Blues); King Solomon Hill (Down On My Bended Knee); Frank Frost (Got My Mojo Working); Cripple Clarence Lofton (Strut That Thing); Jabo Williams (Jab Blues); The R+B Bombers (Mr. G. Man); Jo Ann Kelly (Help Me Through The Day); Robert Pete Williams (Dyin' Soul); Blind Willie McTell and Curley Weaver (Lord Have Mercy If You Please); Ana Popovic (Blues For M); The Billy Walton Band (Distorted Views); Kok...
Sep 26, 2009•1 hr
Byther Smith (I Can't Understand You Baby); Lowell Fulson (Worry, Worry); Leroy Carr (Alabama Woman Blues); Scrapper Blackwell (Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog); B.B. King (Did You Ever Love A Woman); Curtis Salgado (20 Years Of B.B. King); Big Bill Morganfield (High Gas Prices); Simon McBride (Down To The River); Lewis Black (Gravel Camp Blues); Big Joe Williams and J.D. Short (Rocks And Gravel); Matt Schofield (What I Wanna Hear); George Hannah (Freakish Man Blues); Alice Moore (B...
Sep 19, 2009•1 hr 1 min
Mike Zito (Dirty Blonde); Johnny Heartsman (Got To Find My Baby); Bullfrog Brown (Shadows); Blind Blake (Sun To Sun); Freddie Spruell (Tom Cat Blues); Jeff Healey (Whipping Post); Dave Riley and Bob Corritore (Jelly Roll King); Samuel James (Love And Mumbly-Peg); Lightnin' Slim (Lightnin' Blues); Mississippi Fred McDowell (Milk Cow Blues); Muddy Waters (I Feel Like Going Home); Otis Spann (Sometimes I Wonder); Raymond Barrow (Walking Blues); Dennis Jones (Kill The Pain); Janiva Magness (Eat The ...
Sep 12, 2009•1 hr 1 min
This week a Watermelon Slim special featuring tracks from his albums (including "Escape From The Chicken Coop") and clips from an interview conducted when he headlined the Cambridge Festival at the beginning of August.
Sep 05, 2009•1 hr 6 min
Ronnie Baker Brooks (Half); Buddy Guy (Ninety Nine And One Half); Sonny Boy Williamson (Bring Another Half Pint); Roosevelt Sykes (Candy Man Blues); Reverend Gary Davis (Candy Man); Pete Haycock's True Blues (Midnight Hours); Blind Boy Fuller (Ten O'Clock Peeper); Skip James (Four O'Clock Blues); Matt 'Guitar' Murphy (Good Luck Charm); Lonnie Brooks (Brand New Mojo Hand); Memphis Minnie (Ain't Nobody Home But Me (take 1)); Sleepy John Estes (Drop Down Mama); Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five (Le...
Aug 29, 2009•1 hr
Robert Nighthawk (Dust My Broom); Omar and The Howlers (Boogie Man); Charley Patton (Mississippi Boweavil Blues); Doug Quattlebaum (You Is One Black Rat); Otis Rush (It's My Own Fault); J.D. Short (Fighting For Dear Old Uncle Sam); The Derek Trucks Band (Days Is Almost Gone); James Blood Ulmer (No Escape From The Blues); Eddie Vinson (Juice-Head Baby); Muddy Waters (Mannish Boy); Blind Willie McTell (A To Z Blues); Jimmy Yancey (Beezum Blues); Rusty Zinn (The Big Eye).
Aug 22, 2009•1 hr
Luther Allison (Don't Start Me Talking); Marcia Ball (I'm Coming Down With The Blues); Cannon's Jug Stompers (Bring It With You When You Come); Cow Cow Davenport (Cow Cow Blues); Snooks Eaglin (Brown Skinned Woman); Blind Boy Fuller (Step It Up And Go); Cecil Gant (Little Baby You're Running Wild); Travis 'Moonchild' Haddix (You Kind Of Fool); The Insomniacs (20/20); Blind Willie Johnson (John The Revelator); Freddie King (Gambling Woman Blues); Meade 'Lux' Lewis (Deep Fives); Lonnie Mack (Stop)...
Aug 15, 2009•1 hr 1 min
A.C. Reed (Hard Times); Robert Cray Band (Across The Line); Debbie Davies and Albert Collins (I Wonder Why); Robert Johnson (Sweet Home Chicago); Lonnie Johnson (Chicago Blues); Erick Hovey (Feels So Good Hurts So Bad); Buddy Whittington (Can't Be Good For Me); Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup (Chicago Blues); Jimmy Rogers (Chicago Bound); Craig Horton (Find Another Fool); Big Joe Williams (Vitamin A); Kokomo Arnold (Biscuit Roller Blues); Mississippi John Hurt (Frankie); Willie Harris (Never Drive A Str...
Aug 08, 2009•1 hr 1 min
Tab Benoit (Good To Ya, Baby); Little Sam Davis (Goin' To New Orleans); Jazz Gillum (It Sure Had A Kick); Big Bill Broonzy (Rockin' Chair Blues); The Ian Siegal Band (Revelator (John The Apostle)); Corey Harris (Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning); Wentus Blues Band feat. Eric Bibb (I Heard The Angels Singing); Doug MacLeod (Dubb's Talkin' Politician Blues); Mooch Richardson (Helena Blues); Ed Bell (Mean Conductor Blues); Ty Curtis Band (Stubborn Mind); Champion Jack Dupree (Evil Woman); Little ...
Aug 01, 2009•1 hr
Michael Burks (Mean Old Lady); Rising Sons (Last Fair Deal Gone Down); Bessie Smith (Follow The Deal On Down); Dock Boggs (Old Rub Alcohol Blues); Kelly Joe Phelps (Dock Boggs Country Blues); Joanna Connor (You Don't Love Me); William Harris (Bullfrog Blues); Bayless Rose (Original Blues); Willie Mabon (Seventh Son); Little Hat Jones (Rolled From Side To Side Blues); Carl Martin (Badly Mistreated Man); The Twisters (I Refuse To Get Old); Bobby Jones feat. The Mannish Boys (Get It Over Baby); Joh...
Jul 25, 2009•1 hr
Bill Perry (Leavin' Home); Ana Popovic (Putting Out The APB); Hociel Thomas (Deep Water Blues); Charley Patton (High Water Everywhere Part 1); Mommah Brothers (Creepin' Dog); Richard Ray Farrell and The Spanish Band (Down In Virginia); Blind Willie Johnson (It's Nobody's Fault But Mine); Blind Willie McTell (Writing Paper Blues); Paul Rodgers and David Gilmour (Standing Around Crying); Rory Block (Fixin' To Die); Bukka White (Aberdeen Mississippi Blues); J.B. Lenoir (Voodoo Music); The Homemade ...
Jul 18, 2009•1 hr
Albert Cummings (Say You Love Me); Roxy Perry (Whole Dog); Wesley Wallace (No. 29); Meade 'Lux' Lewis (Honky Tonk Train Blues); Chris Jagger (The Libido Blues); Earl Hooker (Sweet Angel); Bullfrog Brown (Dust In The Groove); Pete Haycock's True Blues feat. Glen Turner (Love Sneaking Up On You); Luke Jordan (Pick Poor Robin Clean); Blind Blake (Too Tight Blues No. 2); Erick Hovey (Know Who You Are); Jimmy Lee Williams (Hoot Your Belly); Dupree + McPhee (Baby Don't You Put Me Out); James 'Boodle I...
Jul 11, 2009•1 hr 1 min
John Earl Walker (Come Over Here); Coco Montoya (Enough Is Enough); Buddy Guy (Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes?); Blind Norris (Sundown Blues); Lonesome Sundown (Leave My Money Alone); Mia Vermillion (Walkin'); Georgia White (Walking The Street); B.B. King (You Upset Me Baby); Joe Turner (Goin' To Chicago Blues); John Campbell (When The Levee Breaks); Sonny Terry (Lonesome Train); Furry Lewis (Cannon-Ball Blues); Ann Peebles (Fear No Evil); Greg Nagy (Blues Will Take Good Care Of You); Bobby Messan...
Jul 04, 2009•1 hr
56 Deluxe feat. AZ Kenny Tsak (Like I Do); Andrea Marr (Steam Up The Windows); Sweet Suzi and The Blues Experience (Bad Axe); Pete Harris (Blind Lemon's Song); Blind Lemon Jefferson (Match Box Blues); Watermelon Slim and The Workers (Folding Money Blues); Little Walter (Dead Presidents); Tarter and Gay (Brownie Blues); Bayless Rose (Black Dog Blues); Tab Benoit (Darkness); R.L. Burnside (Poor Boy); Jimmy Witherspoon (Two Little Girls); George Torey (Married Woman Blues); Black Ace (Black Ace); M...
Jun 27, 2009•1 hr
Tinsley Ellis (To The Devil For A Dime); Jason Ricci and New Blood (Done With The Devil); Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers (That's What's Knockin' Me Out); R. Green and Turner (Alla Blues); Willie Walker (South Carolina Rag); Skyla Burrell Blues Band (I'm Going Down); Kelly Carmichael (The Last Fair Deal Goin' Down); John Campbell (Walkin' Blues); Speckled Red (Early In The Morning); Pine Top Smith (Jump Steady Blues); Gren Bartley (Last Night); Bert Deivert and Janne Zander (Seems Like A Dream)...
Jun 20, 2009•1 hr
Robben Ford and The Blue Line (Top Of The Hill); Byther Smith (Ought To Be Ashamed); Teresa James and The Rhythm Tramps (High Maintenance Man); Lightnin' Hopkins (Fast Mail Rambler); Joe Callicott (Fare Thee Well Blues); Eric Bibb (Buckets of Rain); Eric Clapton (Walk Out In The Rain); Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (Why Are People Like That); Tampa Red (Deceitful Friend Blues); Albert Collins (Lights Are On But Nobody's Home); The Larks (Eyesight To The Blind); Lowell Fulson (Everyday I Have The Bl...
Jun 13, 2009•1 hr
The Mannish Boys with Finis Tasby (Lonesome Bedroom Blues); Greg Nagy (Not Falling In Love); Guy Davis (Can't Be Satisfied); Charlie Spand (Fetch Your Water); Teddy Darby (Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues); The Derek Trucks Band (Drown In My Own Tears); Long John Hunter and Lonnie Brooks (Alligators Around My Door); Algia Mae Hinton (Going Down This Road); Mattie Delaney (Down The Big Road Blues); Debbie Davies (Half Caf-Decaf); Joanne Shaw Taylor (Bones); Carl Martin (Joe Louis Blues); Sammy Hill (Nee...
Jun 06, 2009•1 hr
Johnny Winter (Forty-Four); Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers (You Better Watch Yourself); The Delta Flyers (On The Levee Road); Big Joe Williams (Levee Camp Blues); Sonny Boy Williamson II (One Way Out); Omar Kent Dykes (Man Down There); Candye Kane (Superhero); King Solomon Hill (Tell Me Baby); Bo Weavil Jackson (You Can't Keep No Brown); Johnny Dickinson (Ocean Blues); Bessie Smith (Lock And Key); Hayes McMullan (Looka Here Woman); Otis Taylor (Little Betty); Willie Baker (Mama, Don't Rush Me ...
May 30, 2009•1 hr