#619 :: Music from Bette Smith, Robert Finley, Darren Watson, Cecil Barfield and more

New tunes, old tunes, groove tunes, soulful tunes, blues tunes. Enjoy!

Harry Manx - Long Black Veil

Baba Sissoko feat Corey Harris - Dhe Dhe Dhe 

Don Bryant - A Nickel and a Nail

Robert Finley - Three Jumpers

Bette Smith - Shackle Chain

Walter Trout - Mayall's Piano Boogie

John Primer & Bob Corritore - Harmonica Boogaloo

Sam Frazier Jr - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms

Darren Watson - Come On In My Kitchen (free download) 

Cecil Barfield - Root_Blues

Sugaray Rayford feat The Italian Royal Family - Keep Moving

This episode first aired on FreeFM89.0 in New Zealand, on Weds 13 Dec 2017.

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#533 :: Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out

The Blues Room, 20 April 2016

Episode #533

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Please check out the free downloads made available by Mark Hill aka Jellybone Slim, and while you're at it, click on the links for the other artists featured in this episode of The Blues Room, there sure is some great music out there. Enjoy!

1. Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out

2. Johnny Shines - Cool Driver

3. Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' For My Baby

4. Danny Boy - Kokomo Me Baby

5. Lightin' Hopkins - Love Me This Morning

6. Little Junior Parker - Tin Pan Alley

7. Earl Hooker - Sweet Angel

8. Champion Jack Dupree - Bring Me Flowers While I'm Living

9. Mose Vinson & Booker T. Laury - Blues With A Feeling

10. The Soul Snatchers - Keep Workin

11. Michael Harrison - Can't Stop Thinking Of You

12. Leon Bridges - Mississippi Kisses

13. Mark Hill aka Jellybone Slim - Jellybone Blues

14. Bob Margolin - Young & Old Blues

#490 :: Interview with Nick Atkinson of Hopetoun Brown (Supergroove)

The Blues Room, 17 June 2015

Episode #490

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Nick Atkinson of Hopetoun Brown is our guest on The Blues Room tonight. Together with Tim Stewart these guys were (and still are) the horn section for Supergroove, that catchy funky arty band of the 90s who brought us hits like Can't Get Enough and Sitting Inside My Head.

Hopetoun Brown are on tour and roll into Hamilton this Friday 19 June. Bring your instrument of choice down to the Nivara Lounge on Friday night and be prepared to join in on the bluesy songs at the end of their sets and YOU GET IN FOR FREE!

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1. Lightnin' Hopkins - The Howling Wolf

2. Supergroove - Can't Ger Enough

3. Hopetoun Brown - Demanding Blues Free Download

4. Hopetoun Brown - Knitted Into My Bones Free Download

5. Nigel Spiers - The Thrill Is Gone

6. Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Shake For Me

7. Taj Mahal - Built For Comfort

8. Howlin' Wolf - Chocolate Drop

9. Howlin' Wolf - Sitting On Top Of The World

A free download from Joe Bonamassa - Lonesome Christmas

FREE DOWNLOAD - LONESOME CHRISTMAS

The Blues Room # 437 : : Blues Overdose

The Blues Room, 11 June 2014

Episode # 437

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Blues Blast Magazine has a monthly feature called the “Blues Overdose” issue with 5 or 6 free downloadable tracks from various artists to help promote their releases.

This is their answer to the print magazine’s free CD samplers given away when you buy a subscription. Difference is they are going to give them away for 30 days as free downloads to their magazine subscribers. (Their magazine is free too!)

A month after publication date they take the track down so no one can download it after that and artists retain all rights to the track. This will help introduce more fans to the new CD to generate more sales.

So bottom line, if you have an original track off your new album that you own the publishing rights on, submit it for consideration in their monthly Blues Overdose issue.

The Blues Overdose issue will be the last issue of each month so the next one will be the last Thursday of this month. They need you to select the track and send it to them in mp3 format at least a week before to be included. They also need the cover art and 2 paragraphs of text promoting the CD/song that you want to include on the download page. Here is a link to a sample expired Blues OD page for an example of what we are looking for: http://www.bluesblastmagazine.com/blues-od-sample/

You can send the tracks, cover art and information to info@bluesblastmagazine.com.

Please contact info@BluesBlastMagazine.com or at 309 267-4425 if you would like more information.

Songs marked with a * in the playlist below are from the May 2014 Blues Blast Overdose issue. 

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We start this episode with a brand new track off a brand new album by a wonderful collaboration between Bob Stroger and Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith, both legends in their own right. Their new album, Keepin' It Together is available now at http://beedyeyes.com/bob-stroger-and-kenny-beedy-eyes-smith-new-cd-keepin-it-together-2014/

1. Bob Stroger and Kenny 'Beedy' Eyes Smith - Born In Missouri

2. *David Vest - Freight Train Rollin'

3. *John McVey - Thief

4. Hat Fitz and Cara - Friday Night

5. Bob Stroger and Kenny 'Beedy' Eyes Smith with Jerry Portnoy - What Cha Say

6. *Gaetano Letizia - The Devil Is A Nice Guy

7. *Billy Pierce & Friends - Take Me Back to the Delta

8. *Planet Full Of Blues - Big Mouth

9. *The Reverend Shawn Amos - (The Girl Is) Heavy

10.* Oz Noy - Blue Ball Blues

FREE DOWNLOAD: Saint Hilda's Faithless Boy by Darren Watson

Darren Watson is calling out for support to finish his new album . . . 

Please visit www.pledgeme.co.nz/2080, make a pledge in NZ dollars and select one of the awesome rewards. 

In the meantime you can download Darren's last album for as little as FREE! 

Enjoy. And please spread the word. 

Prestigious US magazine Blues Revue says: 

"New Zealand's Darren Watson has crafted a beautiful album in Saint Hilda's Faithless Boy (Red Rocks Records), a set of backward-looking (but by no means retro) blues recorded with a bracing, contemporary sonic treatment. Watson pops his guitar strings like Johnny 'Guitar' Watson on She Got It All, mines soulful, Robert Cray territory on Love Is An Ocean, and channels Howlin' Wolf in full, stomping intensity on A Desperate Man. Dig the swampy roots-rocker He Don't Love You, the serpentine The Bitter Suite, and the acoustic slide reading of My Love Will Never Die - leagues from Otis Rush's original stylistically, right there emotionally. Watson's hearty vocal approach sounds utterly honest. The supporting cast is superb." 

"Saint Hilda's Faithless Boy gets better each time I listen to it." 

- Bill Mitchell, Blues Bytes, USA 

"This is world class. We are lucky to have him. More people should know that." 

- Simon Sweetman, Dominion Post 

"A strong, and long overdue album." 

- Graeme Reid, elsewhere.co.nz

"...the quality of his songwriting and the easy assertiveness of the performances convince." 

- Gary Steel, Metro

Credits: released 01 November 2010 

Produced by Darren Watson with Tim Farrant. 

Recorded by Tim Farrant and Troy Kelly at STL Audio, Wellington, New Zealand. 

Mastered by Dave Greenberg at Sonopod Mastering, Florida, USA. 

All songs written and arranged by Darren Watson.

I Put A Spell On You (#431)

The Blues Room, 23 April 2014

Episode # 431

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Friends are telling me of the wonderful times they had at Byron Bay Bluesfest 2014. I've seen photos of the 5-day musical festival and have started reading online reviews, some of the best are at the Bluesfest message broad, and from what I can gather Peter Noble and his marvelous crew have done it again and delivered yet another outstanding festival. Well done Bluesfest, I'll see you in 2015! Pictured above is a photo of Jeff Beck and Joss Stone when they collaborated to perform, I Put A Spell On You, at Bluesfest 2014.

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1. William Clarke - Easter Bunny Boogie

2. Cash Box Kings - Tom Cat Blues

3. Mannish Boys - Bricks In My Pillow

4. The Kingmakers - Oh Glory

5. Kokomo - Travel All Over The World [NZ] << FREE DOWNLOAD

6. Omar Dykes and Gary Primich -  Down In Mississippi

7. Big Jay McNeely - Rock Candy

8. Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack

9. The Bo Keys feat. Calvin Newborn & John Williams - Back At The Chicken Shack

10. Booker T. Jones feat. Gary Clarke Jr. - Austin City Blues

11. Jeff Beck feat. Joss Stone - I Put A Spell On You

12. The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Lonely Highway

Love One Another's Blues (#423)

The Blues Room, Episode # 423

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A mixed bag of quality blues for you in this episode. I found some great music from artists in Spain this week and thought you might like to hear some of it - check the free downloads out here http://habitacion101tv.bandcamp.com/ 

Theres some new albums out by Albert Castiglia, Eddie Cotton and The Flaming Mudcats that are worth checking out so I drop a few tracks here too. Lets enjoy one another's blues!

Episode # 423, 26 February 2014

1. Albert Castiglia - Love One Another

2. Eddie Cotton - Here I Come

3. Gov't Mule - Catfish Blues

4. Big Mama and Victor Uris - No Way Out

5. Molina Gonzalez - U7

6. Fernano Beiztegui - I Asked For Water, She Gave Me Gasoline

7. Adam Farrah - I Feel Like Going Home

8. The Flaming Mudcats - Can't Take It With You [NZ]

9. Micheal Powers - Honey Bee

10. Playing For Change - Blues Of People

Free Download From Dave Riley and Bob Corritore (VizzTone Music)

NEW RELEASE!

Dave Riley and Bob Corritore

Hush Your Fuss!

VizzTone Music 

http://www.vizztone.com/

This is contemporary juke-joint blues, performed by modern masters. The "Mississippi meets Chicago" blues partnership of singer/guitarist Dave Riley and award-winning Chicago blues harmonica player Bob Corritore have toured extensively in the USA, Europe and South America. HUSH YOUR FUSS!, their third CD together, is a real down-home blues throw-down, featuring rootsy, old-school storytelling blues that puts you in rural Mississippi by way of Chicago, all in the well-honed style of Dave Riley and Bob Corritore.

Download the track 'Mississippi Po Boy' for free

M is for Mandolin Blues with Guest Jimi Hocking [#394]

The Blues Room #394, 7 August 2013

Muddy Waters came to mind first when I wondered what I might present in this episode. Then almost instantly I thought of the mandolin and how much I love Johnny Young's Southside Band recordings. So here tis' ... the first of three episodes brought to you by the letter M. M is is BLUES MANDOLIN. My guest tonight is Jimi Hocking of Victoria Australia. A multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist who recently came out here to New Zealand, so bummed that I missed him! Aw well, next time for sure. I'll have Rich Del Grosso, six times nominee for Blues Music Awards: Best Instrumentalist-Mandolin(2006-2012), and winner of the 2009 acoustic album of the year award for "Live From Bluesville", on a show soon too so be sure to come back for that! Enjoy!

1. Ed Rome - Ounce Of The Bounce (Mandolin Version)

2. Jimi Hocking - Yank It Up FREE DOWNLOAD

3. Interview with Jimi Hocking, Victoria Melbourne, Australia

4. Jimi Hocking - Little Black Cat

5. Fiona Boyes, Mookie Brill, and Rich Delgrosso - Get Your Nose Outta My Bizness!

6. Yank Rachell tells about his buying his first mandolin with a family pig

7. Yank Rachell - Diving Duck

8. Johnny Young's Southside Band - Stealin' Back

9. Ry Cooder - Viola Blues

Download link for this episode: 394

The Blues Room # 365 New From David Phillips

 

New music from David Phillips in this episode, a great Black and Tan recording artist.

Plus some blues I downloaded for FREE from The Blues Blast and The Blues Revue E-Zines. If you have subscribed to these e-zines (and Black and Tan) do so now! Enjoy!

 

Episode 365, 16 January 2013

1. Blues Revue - Baptised In Muddy's Sweat - Fiona Boyes
2. Blues Blast - Wayne Baker Brooks - I Can Read Your Mind ft. Sugar Blue
3. Blues Blast - Cee Cee Janes - Blood Red Blues

http://www.thebluesblast.com/
4. Blues Blast - Billy Thompson - A Better Man
5. Blues Revue - Bob Margolin with Mike Sponza Band - Blues Lover

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6. David Philips - Big things
7. David Philips - December wine
8. David Philips - Waiting on the rain
9. David Philips - Link in the chain
10. Blues Buffet - Too Nice, Too Long

 

Download link for this episode: 365