Contemporary blues, classic blues, the next generation - this hour's got it all. But, that's what we do in The Roadhouse, right? Mix it all up and keep you anticipating the next track. Eddie Clearwater, Leadbelly, Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive, and Honey Island Swamp Band - that's a variety of blues. It's a variety that will keep you guessing and, of course, it's also a variety of the finest blues you've never heard - the 587th Roadhouse.
This hour of The Roadhouse pays tribute to the late Candye Kane with a track in every segment. But there's also a bunch of other great blues, including Muddy Waters, Chase Walker Band, Sugar Blue, Mark Hummel, and Johnny Rawls. We say goodbye to a friend but know that the blues rolls on yet more of the finest blues you've never heard - the 586th Roadhouse.
This hour of The Roadhouse pays tribute to the late Candye Kane with a track in every segment. But there's also a bunch of other great blues, including Muddy Waters, Chase Walker Band, Sugar Blue, Mark Hummel, and Johnny Rawls. We say goodbye to a friend but know that the blues rolls on yet more of the finest blues you've never heard - the 586th Roadhouse.
This edition of The Roadhouse comprises sets of varied themes - a set of contemporary blues, a set of blues rock, some killer soul blues, and a set that leans more toward the acoustic. Tweed Funk, The Kaz Hawkins Band, Moreland & Arbuckle, The James Hunter Six, and Matt Andersen make up the big pieces of the puzzle, but the small pieces really pull it all together. It's an hour of varied themes in this edition of The Roadhouse, and definitely another hour of the finest blues you've never hea...
As has become the tradition in the past few years, this edition of The Roadhouse is focused on the 2016 Blues Music Awards, held this past week in Memphis. I've got the winners in 16 or 17 categories, including Cedric Burnside Project, Bettye LaVette, Walter Trout, Shemekia Copeland, and Doug MacLeod. It's a parade of winners this week and a strong, strong hour of the finest blues.
After a few weeks away, it's good to be back to The Roadhouse Studios. Though I struggled a bit to put this one together, I think you'll find the outcome to be worth the struggle. Albert Castiglia, Big Jon Atkinson & Bob Corritore, Dave Muskett, Roddie Romero & The Hub City All-Stars, and Shaun Murphy are all part of the hour. With an edition almost completely full of new music, I think it's safe to say you're in for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard.
This week, it's the second of two Roadhouse Rewinds while I work my way home from vacation. I'll be back next week with a new edition of The Roadhouse. The dark little dive we call The Roadhouse is home this week to the broadest range of blues you might find anywhere. Smokey Wilson, Frank Goldwasser, Snooky Pryor, Anders Osborne, and Bluesmasters featuring Mickey Thomas mix it up with various takes on the blues. The spotlight is on the multeity of the blues in the 270th Roadhouse, and it's defin...
Roadhoue 581 is a Roadhouse Rewind this week, as I'm in New England for a few weeks. Enjoy Roadhouse 321 from April 16, 2011. This edition of The Roadhouse proves the statement we've been making for six years of Saturdays - that the blues isn't just about the old guy on his porch, an acoustic guitar in his lap. Blues can be upbeat, too. The Chris O'Leary Band, Kelley Hunt, Hamilton Loomis, Janiva Magness, and The Juke Joints set the tone for a chair-dancin' hour of the finest blues you've never ...
I've got a feel for some West Coast blues. Of course, that West Coast sound is really almost a migratory blues sound - moving from Texas to the coast. So, there's some Texas in this edition, too. Kirk Fletcher, Johnny Nicholas, Floyd Dixon, Nappy Brown, and The Mannish Boys all make for an hour of uncontrollable chair-dancing and what's clearly a solid hour of the finest blues you've never heard.
Let's call this edition of The Roadhouse tough as chrome with a little more blues rock than usual and a couple of extended tracks from some Roadhouse favorites. Guy King, Joe Bonamassa, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Gary Clark, Jr, and Peter Karp featuring Mick Taylor - all are driving the hour. Even the slower tracks have a toughness to them. But tough or tender, fast or slow, you know the 579th Roadhouse will be another hour of the finest blues you've never heard.
As we move into the spring new release cycle, I've got five artists in this edition making their debut in The Roadhouse. Evelyn Rubio with The Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra, Too Slim & The Taildraggers, Jeff Healey, Mavis Staples, and Sugar Pie DeSanto propel us along for the hour. New music, new artists and a new season out my window. Couldn't ask for a better set of conditions to put together another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 578th Roadhouse.
The 577th Roadhouse has a lot of potential: to get your toes tapping, to hear some great blues that you might not have known about otherwise, and potential for some chair-dancing. Johnny Rawls, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Luther Dickinson, Guy King, Tasha Taylor - almost every track in the hour is new within the past 2 or 3 months or still to be released. In other words, there's also the potential here for an hour that really just flies by and, of course, to be another hour of the finest blues ...
In this edition of The Roadhouse, we pack up an move to Chicago for an hour of contemporary blues from the Windy City. Magic Slim, Billy Boy Arnold, James Cotton, Hound Dog Taylor, and Byther Smith set the stage for an hour of blues as distinctive as any other feature of the city. From the home of the blues, the 576th Roadhouse is another hour of the finest blues.
It's a twisty path through this hour with a mixture of styles and sounds. As always, I've got quite a bit of new music and, for those who love acoustic blues, a full set that just showcases how broad interpretations of the blues can be. Benny Turner, Tommy Emmanuel, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Knickerbocker All-Stars, and the Corey Dennison Band. It's hour of surprises and definitely another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 575th Roadhouse.
With a full set of Roadhouse debuts, this edition is packed full of new releases. And, I've got an unreleased single from one of the more highly-anticipated upcoming releases of this young year. The Record Company, Blind Boys of Alabama, Keb' Mo', Toronzo Cannon, and Golden State Lone Star Blues Review. Those are just the waypoints for the hour, but they all resolve to another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 574th Roadhouse.
Take a good breath before this edition of The Roadhouse - you'll need all the oxygen you can get. For the 11th anniversay edition of the show, I've got an hour of show-openers from the previous year. Mississippi Heat, Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin, Andy Santana & The West Coast Playboys, Kentucky Headhunters with Johnnie Johnson, and Bill Perry make for the most upbeat edition of the past 12 months. It's the 573rd Roadhouse and the 11th anniversary of the finest blues you've never heard.
Pre-release music and classic blues artists help support this hour. Eugene Hideaway Bridges, Toronzo Cannon, Luther Dickinson, Magic Sam, and Mavis Staples drive this edition, along with many other great blues artists and tracks. The 572nd Roadhouse is a great mix of blues and another hour of the finest blues you've never heard.
This edition of The Roadhouse is focused on the 2016 Blues Music Awards. I'm featuring nominees in almost all the major categories to put together a compelling hour of blues. Diunna Greenleaf, James Harman, Sugar Ray & The Bluetones, The Ragicker String Band, and Mr. Sipp provide a representative slice of the nominees and, certainly provide another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 571st Roadhouse.
You're probably gonna want to man up for this edition of The Roadhouse. It's full of tough subjects: the news, drinking, guns, the economy, danger. But the artists walk the line that blues walks so well - tough, yet still providing the motivation to spend an hour chair-dancing. Harmonica Shah, Zora Young, Luther Allison, Koko Taylor, and Sugaray Rayford. Let's just call this an hour of flinty blues and another hour of the finest blues you've never heard.
I've got several pretty strong harp tracks in this edition of The Roadhouse, but, of course, that's not all. I've also got a live set and a blues rock set in the hour and several outstanding blues women, as well. Francine Reed, Pinetop Perkins and Jimmy Reed, Smokin' Joe Kubek and BNois King, Balkun Brothers, and Ina Forsman mean I'm pretty sure you'll find it to be an hour of surprises and, certainly, another hour of the finest blues you've never heard, the 569th Roadhouse.
It's a full hour in this edition of The Roadhouse with about as many tracks as you can pack in and still leave a little time for talk. Included in that big stack of blues: Jonn Del Toro Richardson, Sam Butler, Candye Kane, Billy Boy Arnold, and Trudy Lynn. Any good real-world Roadhouse packs 'em in on Saturday night and I think we've got it covered both ways. We're packed full of patrons and packed full of artists in another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 568th Roadhouse.
If you've never really thought about the diversity of styles we call the blues, you're about to get a big, big surprise. This hour of The Roadhouse ventures off into contemporary, acoustic, retro, soul blues, and blues with a Hawaiian twist. Bob Margolin, Jeffrey Foucault, Doug MacLeod, Mike Sanchez, and Taj Mahal assure that if you get nothing more out of this edition of The Roadhouse, you'll get the true sense that the blues is not just one thing. But this hour? It is one thing. It's an hour o...
With the first show of the new year, I take a look back at the old, with an hour of some of my favorite releases from 2015. Buddy Guy, Cash Box Kings, Knickerbocker All-Stars, Sonny Landreth, and Slam Allen are just some of the names that represent the finest and freshest blues from 2015. And they lay the foundation for another hour of the finest blues of the year just passed - the 566th Roadhouse.
Technical difficulties this week mean that the last show of 2015 is a Roadhouse Rewind. Replacement gear is on the way, and I should be back next week to kick off 2016 with a new edition of The Roadhouse . This edition of The Roadhouse ends the year with a real party atmosphere. Freddie King, Buddy Guy, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Mighty Sam McClain, and the South Austin Moonlighters light up our little juke joint. Throw in a couple of listener requests and the last 60 minutes of 2012 is absolutely ...
It's the next-to-last holiday edition of The Roadhouse, with 2015 nearly in the rear-view mirror. I've got the usual mix of holiday and straight-up blues for the hour, including Marcia Ball, Colby James, Chris Yakopcic, Albert Cummings, and Charles Brown. As 2015 rolls away, another hour rolls in with the finest blues you've never heard - the 564th Roadhouse.
As the year winds down, this edition of The Roadhouse is chock full of releases from 2015. Slam Allen, Rhiannon Giddens, Long John Baldry, Brother Dege, and Mike Henderson fill the hour. Along with 9 or 10 other tracks, they absolutely help make it another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 563rd Roadhouse.
As has become our tradition, Koko Taylor welcomes in the holiday season in The Roadhouse. And, I've got a holiday track in every set, with a bunch of Roadhouse debuts, as well. Helge Tallqvist, Bonita & The Blues Shacks, Jonn Del Toro Richardson, Ellis Hooks, and Francine Reed are among the names you've not heard in the show. Mixed in with some of the best holiday blues around, you've got another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 562nd Roadhouse.
A Roadhouse Rewind fills the Thanksgiving weekend. I'll be back next week with a new edition of The Roadhouse. Week 285 in The Roadhouse brings a strong variety of blues to the hour. Rob Stone, Little Johnny Christian, Stevie Paige, Mississippi Sheiks, and Bob Corritore propel us through this edition. 285 hours of The Roadhouse make for eleven and a half days of non-stop shows, each comprised of the finest blues you've never heard.
The calendar's getting short in 2015 and we're cruising toward the holidays. We're also right at the tail end of the holiday new release period. I've got some of those new releases in this edition, including some artists who've not been in The Roadhouse before. Si Cranstoun, Eddie Charles, Lara Price, Mike Zito, and RJ Spangler's Blue Four help provide a lot of new music, a lot of new artsts, and another hour of the finest blues you've never heard - the 560th Roadhouse.
It's a great day to get the '57 Cadillac convertible of the blues out of the garage and rolling down the road. Chris O'Leary, Buddy Guy, Laura Rain & The Caesars, Georgie Bonds, and Altered Five Blues Band keep us moving, feathering the gas pedal just enough to keep that momentum going. Like the 558 editions before it, this edition of The Roadhouse really promises to make for another hour of the finest blues you've never heard.
