THE BLUES ROOM

18 September 2019

#710 :: Belly Fulla Blues With Fatt Max (18 Sept 2019)

The final episode of Belly Fulla Blues with Fatt Max. We thank Mark 'Fatt Max' Hill for all his support and great shows he's hosted. He takes over from October with his own show called, The Blues Machine. We have our final episode of The Blues Room next week and it'll be a LIVE to air blues jam with a special appearance of Fatt Max plus many seasoned blues musicians from in and around Kirikiriroa so come back!

1. The Allman Brothers Band – Wasted Words

2. T Bone Walker – I Gat A Break Baby

3. Shaw Davis & The Black Ties – Tales From The West

4. Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – John Henry

5. Muddy Waters – Rollin’ & Tumblin’

6. Chris Armour Quartet – Kira

7. Peter Parcek – Things Fall Apart

8. Darcy Perry Band – I don’t Need You No More

9. Damon Fowler – Running Out Of Time

10. Joe Bonamassa – Bridge To Better Days

11. Popa Chubby – Dirty Diesel

12. Ruzz Guitars Blues Review – Mine All Mine

13. Guitar Shorty – I’m Gonna Leave You

14. John Mayall – Nobody Told Me

14 September 2019

#709 :: Acoustically Blue (11 Sept 2019)

Mostly acoustic blues in this episode. Be sure to enter the draw to win a copy of Greg Copeland's new CD. And be sure to catch him on tour around New Zealand during Oct-Nov 2019. And stay locked to The Blues Room for the final episode of Belly Fulla Blues. From October Fatt Max will be hosting The Blues Machine on FreeFM, 10pm NZ time so be sure to tune in.

1 Greg Copeland - Brown-Eyed Handsome Man

2 Gerry Hundt (Acoustic) - Make Me a Pallet

3 Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Better Day

4 Big Bill Broonzy - Tell Me Who

5 Darren Watson - Every Morning

6 Darcy Perry & Craig Bracken - Walk in the Sun

7 Mike Garner - You Gonna Wreck My Life

8 Lightnin Hopkins - Last Night

9 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em on Down

10 David Honeyboy Edwards - Big Fat Mama

11 Li'l Chuck The One Man Skiffle Machine - I Call On Jimmy Reed

12 Sugar Blue - Another Man Done Gone

13 Fiona Boyes, Mookie Brill, and Rick del Grosso - Early In The Morning

14 Duke Robillard with Jerry Portnoy - Left Handed

8 September 2019

#708 :: Songs That Influenced The Rolling Stones (4 Sept 2019)

Its a celebration of the songs that influenced the Rolling Stones and

Fatt Max is Diggin' Deeper to find those songs. Enjoy!

1. Howlin’ Wolf – Little Red Rooster

2. Buddy Holly – Not Fade Away

3. Blind Boy Fuller – Get Your Ya Ya’s Out

4. Muddy Waters – Just Make Love To Me

5. Robert Wilkins – That’s No Way To Get Along

6. Barrett Strong – Money

7. Joe Williams – Confessin’ The Blues

8. Robert Johnson – Stop Breaking Down Blues

9. Lead Belly – Midnight Special

10. Big Mama Thornton – Hound Dog

11. Jackie Brenston – Rocket 88

12. B B King – Every Day I have The Blues

13. Elmore James – It Hurts Me Too

14. Little Walter – Key To The Highway

15. Fats Domino – Blue Monday

16. John Lee Hooker – I’m In The Mood

17. Wilbert Harrison – Kansas City

18. Little Richard – Good Golly Miss Molly

19. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Okie Doki Stomp

20. Muddy Waters – Rollin’ Stone

21. Little Walter – Just Your Fool

31 August 2019

#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

22 August 2019

#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

17 August 2019

#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

8 August 2019

#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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3 August 2019

#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.

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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27 July 2019

#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