Friday night
The Jimmy Reed Highway was a band formed to pay tribute to blues singer and songwriter Jimmy Reed. You might recognize Kim Wilson on harp and vocal and Jimmie Vaughan…
tunes
Let the Gentlemen do their thing
It’s New Year’s Eve — time once again for the traditional laying on of the Monster Gentlemen. Be of good cheer.
Friday night: Trios
You can cover a lot of territory with drums, bass and guitar. This is the Taj Mahal Trio with their version of an old country blues song called Corrina. This…
Christmas music, if we must
Happy holidays. Stay safe.
Friday night
It’s almost Christmas. Time for some blues. That’s Lurrie Bell on guitar sitting in with Mississippi Heat but this instrumental is all about the harp. This is Dallas Hodge and…
Friday night: Duets
Tonight’s episode is a bit of a change of pace. The opener is Bruce Cockburn and Colin Linden on Austin City Limits performing Cockburn’s A Dream Like Mine. Want to…
Friday night: Slide with rhythm section
And later on even some second guitar. But first up is Roy Rogers with his version of last week’s closer: Terraplane Blues. This was taped in 1993, the same year…
Friday night: Solo slide
We begin with Lincoln Durham performing on an Austin, Texas TV show a couple of years back. The song is Reckoning Lament and it's from an album called The Shovel…
Friday night
I like opening with Kelly Joe Phelps. He makes me pay attention. This is Big Shaky....
Friday night
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 killed 246 people in seven states. At its height, the Mississippi River was 60 miles wide south of Memphis, Tennessee. This is Eric Bibb…
Friday night blues blogging
This is what YouTube is for: Gatemouth Brown on stage with Canned Heat at Montreux in 1973....
Friday night: Slide
We’ll ease into it. This is Kelly Joe Phelps with Down to the Praying Ground. David Jacobs-Strain gets a little help here from Bob Beach on harp. The song is…
Friday night oldies
Getting nostalgic again. Starting with Junior Walker and the Allstars performing on Hullabaloo. Remember Hullabaloo? Where the dancers worked at least as hard as the musicians. This is Shotgun. King…
Friday night Gov’t Mule blogging
This is called Lola Leave Your Light On and it’s from an episode of the Conan O’Brien Show. This song has grown on me. The first night I watched this,…
Friday night Strength In Numbers blogging
If you’re not familiar with the band Strength In Numbers, the list of personnel might lead you to expect a bluegrass supergroup. But the tunes on offer here aren’t traditional…
Friday night John Fullbright blogging
Because he’s growing on me. This is called All the Time In the World. And remember: never go to southern Oklahoma at night. As you may have gathered from the…
Friday night oldies
All of these clips are from the Sixties. A couple of the tunes are older than that. The intricate fingerstyle guitar and the minor key on this first song are…
Friday night Clapton covers Johnson blogging
That would be Eric Clapton covering the songs of Robert Johnson, in case that wasn’t obvious. I stayed away from Crossroad Blues because that would be too obvious. This is…
Unscheduled musical interlude: Big Country
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