#707 :: The Blues Done Made Me Drunk (28 Aug 2019)

"I see no whiskey but the blues done made me drunk." ~ Johnny Young

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. 

I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. ~ B. B. King

Corey Harris - Moosemilk Blues

Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band - Kid Man Blues

Billy Boy Arnold - Whiskey, Beer And Reefer

Buddy Guy - Whiskey, Beer & Wine

Pinetop Perkins - Just Keep On Drinking

Jimmy Rodgers - Sloppy Drunk

Bob Margolin - Brown Liquor

The Flaming Mudcats - Drinking My Life Away

George Thorogood & the Destroyers - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

Robert Garret - Quit My Drinkin 

J Geils Band - Serves You Right To Suffer

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#706 :: Another Belly Fulla Blues With Fatt Max (21 August 2019)

This week: Fatt Max serves up another great selection of modern blues with some old gems in the mix to help keep the blues alive. From the Roots of the Blues to the Fruits of the Blues

1. Billy Price – Working On Your Chain Gang 

2. Bobby Rush – Good Stuff 

3. Heather Newman – She Sure Looks A Lot Like Me 

4. Laura Collins & The Back Porch Blues Band 

5. Laura Collins & The Back Porch Blues Band 

6. Texas Storm – White Room 

7. Texas Storm – Cheap Sunglasses 

8. Bonita & The Blues Shacks – Hottest Wings In Town 

9. Misty Blues – Mountain Blu 

10. Shady Frank – Crossroads 

11. Sugar Queen & The Straight Blues Band – Give Sugar 

12. Michael Lee – Go your own way 

13. Vanya Sky – Hard Working Woman 

14. Muddy Waters – Hoochie Coochie Man 

15. Albert King – Born Under A Bad Sign 

16. Muddy Waters – Got My Mojo Working

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#705 :: More Tunes From the 88s (14 August 2019)

More tunes from the 88s.

1 The Blues & Boogie Kings w/ Mitch Kashmar - Route 66

2 Maria Muldaur with Doc John piano - Don't You Feel My Leg

3 Milt Buckner - Red Red Wine

4 Taj Mahal - Built For Comfort

5 Jan Preston - The Boogie Gal

6 Oscar Peterson - C Jam Blues

7 Muddy Waters w/ Otis Spann, Mike Bloomfield & Paul Butterfield - Blow Wind blow

8 Henry Gray - That Ain't Right

9 Champion Jack Dupree - When I'm Drinkin'

10 Art Neville (Tribute To Fats Domino) - Please Don't Leave Me

11 Van Morrison - Worried Blues / Rollin' And Tumblin'

12 Otis Spann - It Must Have Been The Devil

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#704 :: Digging Deeper with Fatt Max (7 August 2019)

Fatt Max explores a set of really old jug, kazoo and cowbell type traditional old school blues 

from a collection called, 'Good Time Blues.' 

1. Mississippi Jook Band – Hittin’ The Bottle 

2. Mississippi Jook Band – Skippy Whippy 

3. Memphis Jug Band – Mary Anna Cutoff 

4. Memphis Jug Band – Gator Wobble 

5. Memphis Jug Band – Mistreated Washboard Blues 

6. Charlie Burse – Baby You Win 

7. Charlie Burse – Oil It Up And Go 

8. Georgia Browns – Tampa Strut 

9. Georgia Cotton Pickers – Diddle Da Diddle 

10. Georgia Cotton Pickers – She’s Coming Back Day 

11. Big Joe And His Washboard Band - If You Take Me Back 

12. Big Joe And His Washboard Band - I’m Through With You 

13. Big Joe And His Washboard Band - When You Said Goodbye 

14. Big Joe And His Washboard Band - I Love You Baby 

15. Buddy Moss – Struggle Buddie 

16. Buddy Moss – I’m Sittin’ Here Tonight 

17. Mississippi Jook Band – Dangerous Woman 

18. Mississippi Jook Band – Barbeque Bust 

19. Peter Chatman – Digging My Potatoes 

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#703 :: Interview with Australia's Queen of Boogie Woogie, Jan Preston (31 Aug 2019)

I interview the lovely, the talented, the real deal JAN PRESTON on air The Blues Room. 

http://www.janpreston.com/

NZ Tour - Aug, 2019

In her show '88 Pianos i have known', pianist extraordinaire JAN PRESTON, together with her band, shares with us her passion for pianos. Projected images combine with unforgettable biographical stories, original songs and piano trio music, which will move you from tears to laughter. Underpinned by Jan’s thrilling virtuosity (together with her trio) audiences will be tapping and clapping, and may leave never looking at a piano in quite the same way again! Check @thebluesroomnz on FB for NZ tour details or http://www.janpreston.com/event-directory/

Playlist

Coup D'etat – Doctor I Like Your Medicine

Jan Preston - Wild Women

Jan Preston - Gold Coast Boogie

Jan Preston - Blues and the Boogie

Walter Trout with John Mayall - Mayall's Piano Boogie

Theophilius Beckford - Easy Snapping

Booker T and the MGs – Green Onions

Anthony Geraci feat Willie J. Laws - Baptized In the River Yazoo

Victor Wainwright - Boogie Depression

Pinetop Perkins - Murmur Low

Jimmy Smith feat George Benson - I'll Drink to That

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#702 :: LIVE Recording Wednesday :: Robert Johnson Covered By Blues Greats (24 July 2019)

More than 100 years ago, a child was born in Mississippi – a dirt-poor, African-American who would grow up, learn to sing and play the blues, and eventually achieve worldwide renown. In the decades after his death, he has become known as the King of the Delta Blues Singers, his music expanding in influence to the point that rock stars of the greatest magnitude – the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers – all sing his praise and have recorded his songs. Here's an hour of live recordings of great artists covering Robert Johnson songs. From the Roots of the Blues to the Fruits of the Blues.

1 Eddie Taylor - Kind Hearted Woman

2 Lloyd Spiegel - Love in Vain

3 Jose Luis Pardo & The Mojo Workers - Stones In My Passway

4 Leo 'Bud' Welch - Dust My Broom

5 Peter Green Splinter Group - Steady Rollin' Man

6 John Hammond and John Lee Hooker - Come On In My Kitchen

7 Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin & Jimmie Vaughan - Sweet Home Chicago

8 Son House - Interview

9 Son House - Terraplane Blues

10 Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Walkin' Blues

11 Johnny Shines - They're Red Hot (Hot Tamales)

12 Charlie Beale feat. Robert Johnson - Stop Breakin' Down Blues 

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#701 :: Another Belly Fulla Blues With Fatt Max (17 July 2019)

Fatt Max with another killer selection. Enjoy!

1. Brandon Santini – Don’t come around here 

2. Big Bill Morganfield – Bloodstains On The Wall 

3. Taj Mahal – Checking Up On My Baby 

4. Shane Speal & The Snakes – Hard Times & Cigarettes (From The Album Stay Primal 

5. Shaw Davis & The Black Ties – Fire Inside 

6. Seasick Steve – That’s All 

7. Sugar Pie Di Santo – Hello San Francisco 

8. Katie Knipp – Santa Cruz Blues (from 2018 album take it with you) 

9. Liz Mandeville – Bad Blues Habit (from album the stars motel) 

10. Myles Goodwyn – Last Time I’ll Ever Sing The Blues 

11. Rev Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Cant Pay The Bill 

12. Tiny Legs Tim – Victory 

13. Snooky Pryor – Judgement Day 

14. Guitar Shorty – Im Gonna Leave You 

15. A C Reed & Bonnie Rait – Shes Fine

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#700 :: These Women Know The Blues (10 July 2019)

New, hot blues (and beyond) from women on the blues scene today. Enjoy!

1 Tanika Charles - Tell Me Something

2 Tedeschi Trucks Band - Signs, High Times

3 Joanne Shaw Taylor -The Best Thing

4 Ivy Ford - Time To Shine

5 Gaye Adegbalola - The Griot & Liearrhea

7 Ina Forsman - Get Mine

8 Bonita & The Blues Shacks - Momma's Goin' Dancin'

9 Mary & Amanda Gordon - Lord, I’m in Your Hand

10 Rosie Flores - Love Don't Love Nobody

11 Nancy Wright - I Don't Want No Man (Live)

12 Katarina Pejak -Turtle Blues

13 Heather Newman - She Sure Looks A Lot Like Me

14 Cherry Divine - Rockabilly Chick

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#699 :: Digging Deeper with Fatt Max :: Country Blues (3 July 2019)

Fatt Max is Diggin' Deeper into the blues archives with this episode of early country-blues gems by Henry Thomas, Jaybird Coleman, Kokomo Arnold and Ramblin’ Thomas... just to name a few.

1. Henry Thomas – Fishing Blues 

2. Willie Thomas – Never Drive A Stranger From Your Door 

3. Clifford Gibson – Don’t Put That Thing On Me 

4. Papa Charlie Jackson – The Cats Got The Measles 

5. George Torey – Lonesome Man Blues 

6. Memphis Jug Band – This Will Bring You Back 

7. Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll and Tumble Blues 

8. Otto Virgial - Little Girl In Rome 

9. Blind Joe Reynolds - Married Man Blues 

10. Bobby Grant – Lonesome Atlanta Blues 

11. William Moore - Ragtime Millionaire 

12. Jaybird Coleman – Man Trouble Blues 

13. King Solomon Hill – My Buddy Blind Papa Lemon 

14. Kokomo Arnold – Old Original Kokomo Blues 

15. Tom Dickson – Labor Blues 

16. Texas Alexander – Section Gang Blues 

17. Ramblin’ Thomas – Poor Boy Blues 

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#698 :: LIVE Recording Wednesday :: Kai Strauss & The Electric Blues All Stars (26 June 2019)

This show is jammed packed with awesome artists starting out with Ruth Wyand who plans a return to NZ soon. Check out what's she's doing with her one woman show here. And my co-host, Fatt Max aka Dr Jellybone, gets acoustic for us, check out his latest new release on bandcamp, it's FREE! Flaming Mudcats are in the mix, their new new album, 'Cut Loose', is doing well. And to end the show a new track from Watermelon Slim, going out to my sister Sarah as she starts starts her Dry July. You got this Sarah! 

In this episode we feature music from Kai Strauss & The Electric Blues All-Stars, a band consisting of European blues musicians. Although this band grow up in Germany, they are equally as authentic sounding as their American musical counterparts and heroes. Strauss has earned a solid place in the hearts of the blues community over the past 25 years. 

"Even as a teenager, I was infected by the music of Buddy Guy, BB King or Jimmie Vaughan," says the guitarist and singer, who is now considered in the European scene as one of the big names, according to the magazine Bluesnews.

Four German Blues Awards (including Best Guitarist 2018, Best Band 2016), TV appearances, music magazine covers and concerts in more than 20 countries are notable benchmarks in Strauss' career.

Please check out Kai Strauss & The Electric Blues All-Stars's 'Live In Concert' album, it gets 5 out of 5 stars from me. Nate Taiapa (The Blues Room)

http://www.kaistrauss.com/

https://www.facebook.com/kaistraussblues/

https://continentalrecordservices.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-concert-2

Playlist

Ruth Wyand - Better Off Alone

Dr Jellybone Slim (Jellybone Blues) - Angry Rain

The Flaming Mudcats - Easy to Please

Kai Strauss & The Electric Blues All Stars (Live In Concert)

Gotta Let You Go

Ain't Gonna Ramble No More

Get The Ball Rolling

Highway Blues

Let Me Love You Baby

Shades Of Earl (Tribute To Ronnie Earl & Earl Hooker)

Watermelon Slim - Too Much Alcohol

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