June 22, 2016


Blues Marathon pre-show     6-22-2016                                            
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Paul and I were scheduled for a fifth Wednesday this month and we agreed to move it a week ahead so we could get together and hype the 2016 Blues Marathon which begins this Friday at noon.  I’ll be taking stuff from various artist discs I put together almost a decade ago for just such occasions which means you’ll be hearing some of my favorite tunes.  I had problems copying Paul’s playlist but it is included below as best I was able to get it.  This is followed by the Marathon schedule.  Enjoy your Blues weekend.

I’ll be back next week and we’ll begin the last three episodes of our British Blues series.  If you’ve stuck with me this long, I’m sure you’ll like ‘em.
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ROCK'N ROLL BOOGIE - JO JO WILLIAMS AND HIS BAND  ATOMIC - H no#  1959 Nnn(45)
2
LET'S ROLL - J. B. LENOIR  J.O.B. 112  1952 Nb12
3
EVERYBODY'S SINGING THE BLUES - FIVE DUKES OF RHYTHM  RENDEZVOUS 812  1954 (X)ah
4
LIGHTNING STRUCK THE POORHOUSE - COUSIN JOE NcouCD
5
FEEL SO BAD - ROBERT NIGHTHAWK AND HIS NIGHTHAWKS BAND  UNITED 105  1952 (N)prx214
6
RAMBLING - JOHNNY SHINES  J.O.B 116  1952 Vb12
7
ALPHABET BLUES - FREDDY MITCHELL v. BIG SHEBA  DERBY 745  c.1950 X9b
8
BACK HOME TO MAMA - BIG WALTER AND HIS COMBO  STATES 145  1955 Nsto(45)
9
EARLY MORNING BLUES - MUDDY WATERS AND HIS GUITAR  CHESS 1490  1951 Nalb
10
ROUGH TREATMENT - LITTLE HUDSON AND HIS RED DEVIL TRIO  J.O.B. 1016  1953(X)
11
EMPTY BEDROOM BLUES - SAUNDERS KING  MODERN 659  1949 Ndea(78)
12
BABY, BABY, WHAT'S WRONG - EARL GAINES v., LOUIS BROOKS AND HIS HI-TOPPERS
  EXCELLO 2063  1955 Nmar(78)
13
EYESIGHT TO THE BLIND - SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON II  TRUMPET 129  1951 X
14
FINALLY MET MY BABY - LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS & RUTH AMES  HERALD 483  1956Xmg
15
FINE JELLY BLUES - REDD FOXX WITH KENNY WATTS AND HIS JUMPIN' BUDDIES  SAVOY 631  1946 Nbou
16
A FOOL NO MORE - EDDIE HOPE AND MANNISH BOYS  MARLIN 804  1956 X
17
BLUES PAIN - LOWELL FULSOM  KENT 489  1968 Nr(45)
18
GIT TO GITTIN' BABY - WYNONIE HARRIS  KING 4774  1955 Ndea(45)
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GOIN' BACK TO ORLEANS - JESSE AND BUZZY  SAVOY 1559  1958X
20
I'M GOIN' HOME - MYRTLE JONES  COURIER 507  1955 Xboo(78)
21
GONNA HOP ON DOWN THE LINE - RALPH WILLIS  KING 4631  1953 Ndad(78)
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BABY, PLEASE DON'T - ROY HAWKINS  RHYTHM 122  1958 Nsto(45)
23
GOOD MORNIN' BABY - SMOKEY HOGG  EBB 127  1957(X)
24
SHE'S FINE, SHE'S MINE - BO DIDDLEY  CHECKER 819  1955 (N)r
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GOODBYE BABY - ELMORE JAMES  FLAIR 1079  1955
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SAVANNAH SINGS THE BLUES - SAVANNAH CHURCHILL AND THE FOUR TUNES  MANOR 1180  c.1946 Nmar
27
ALLEY SPECIAL - WRIGHT HOLMES  GOTHAM 511  1947 Nsto(78)
28
GOTTA GO BABY - JOE HILL LEWIS THE ONE MAN BAND  MODERN  839  1951 N209(78)

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FRIDAY     June 24th 2016

noon-3pm   Gil  will host live music

   1pm Rob Vye

   2pm Preacher boy 

3-6pm   "Blue Suede Dave" Stafford will continue with live music:

   3pm Chris Burkhardt

   4pm Ruth Gerson 

6-9pm   Mike the Fly

9-midnight   Kingman

SATURDAY     June 25th, 2016

midnight-3am  The Rhythm Mechanic will be exploring the Many Shades of the Blues,.

   from the Darkness of the Delta to the

       Brightest of the Bay

3-6am  Dr. J

6-9am   Tomas Montoya

9am-noon   The One Foggy-Eyed Radish  

noon-2pm  Lars Bourne

2-4pm Mark Owens

4-6pm  Radio Re

6-8pm   Jim Dandy and his Mystic Blues Knights of the El Camino

8-10   Paul Johnson and friends

10-midnight   Rhythm Doctor and friends

SUNDAY     June 26th, 2016

midnight-3am  Johnnie Cozmik

3-7am   Bobby G

7-10am   Paul Jacobs

10am-noon   The Hoochie Coochie Man (Rockin’ Rick)

noon-2pm Jim and Gratia

2pm   Jammin' Jim Farris transitions us from the recorded music to our live in-studio Blues

3pm-midnight will be live performances in the station.

3pm GG Amos

4pm Dave Gonzales and Sammy Varela

    tribute to Peter Green

5pm Pat Wilder

6[pm Gary Smith,David Barrett,Andy Just

7pm the Benton st blues band

8pm Alabama Mike 

9pm JC Smith 

10pm Big Jon Atkinson

11pm Kid Andersen, Aki Kumar and friends

June 8, 2016


Key to the Highway     6-8-2016                                            
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Here’s a really short blog entry for you.  Computer problems, combined with our upcoming Blues Marathon (noon Friday June 24th thru the weekend winding down as Sunday becomes Monday at midnight), have made me go old school today and likely for our next show in departures from our British Blues saga.  I have no playlist for today because I will just enter the studio in a fly by the seat my pants mode and pick material from what has come into the station recently, something I used to do frequently until beginning this English endeavor.  I’ll be back in two weeks on the Wednesday before the marathon and then again the Wednesday following with Paul as we normally share the fifth Wednesdays.  I should be ready to return on July 13th with one of the last three or four shows in our British Blues “extravaganza”, an apt word if for no other reason than its sheer duration.

Since there is no musical meat in this blog, I thought I’d touch on some current events that caught my fancy  – HOORAY Hillary Clinton, so sad about Muhammed Ali, go Warriors (and Sharks), and BOO HISS to that cross between a carnival barker and David Duke that goes by the name of Donald Trump.  I never understood before how anyone’s sum total of parts could be total more than 100%, but Trump is 50% showman P.T. Barnum (notable for his belief that there’s a sucker born every minute) while still being a racist, misogynistic and religion-based bigot throughout every bone of his body.  Heaven help this ignorant country!  I believe it was Barnum who said “This way to the egress”.
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