#621 :: LIVE Recording Wednesday :: Tedeschi Trucks Band LIVE from Fox Oakland (27 Dec 2017)

One of my favorite Live recordings released in 2017 was by the Tedeschi Trucks Band called 

Live from Fox Oakland.

Live from the Fox Oakland is the second live album from American rock ensemble Tedeschi Trucks Band. Released on March 17, 2017 through Fantasy Records in both audio and video, the work was recorded on the second night of a two day September 2016 show in California.

Live from the Fox Oakland was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Full track listing at http://tedeschitrucksband.com/live-from-the-fox-oakland/

Featured Tracks

01 - Don't Know What It Means

02 - Keep On Growing

03 - Bird On The Wire

04 - Within You, Without You

05 - Leavin' Trunk

06 - I Pity The Fool

07 - Let Me Get By

This episode first aired on FreeFM89.0 in New Zealand.

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#524 :: Grammy Award For Best Blues Album 2016 Goes To Buddy Guy

The Blues Room, 17 February 2016

Episode #525

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The winner of best blues album for the 2016 Grammy awards was Buddy Guy. The Grammy nominees for best blues album 2016 were as follows:

Born To Play Guitar - Buddy Guy (Winner)

Label: RCA Records/Silvertone Records

Descendants Of Hill Country - Cedric Burnside Project

Label: Cedric Burnside Project

Outskirts Of Love - Shemekia Copeland

Label: Alligator Records

Worthy - Bettye LaVette

Label: Cherry Red

Muddy Waters 100 - John Primer & Various Artists

Label: Raisin Music Records

1. Cedric Burnside Project - that Changes Everything

2. John Primer and Friends feat. James Cotton (Muddy 100) - I Feel So Good

3. Shemekia Copeland - I Feel A Sin Coming On

4. Mavis Staples - See that My Grave Is Kept Clean

5. R.L. Burnside - Rollin' & Tumblin'

6. Macy Gray - Hound Dog

7. Bonnie Raitt, Gary Clark Jr., Chris Stapleton - Grammys Tribute To B.B. King

8. Jon Cleary - Brother I'm Hungry

9. Bob Margolin - Young & Old Blues

10. B.B. King - How Blue Can You Get?

11. John Hammond - No Money Down

12. Buddy Guy - Smarter Than I Was

#516

Photo credit: Jan Persson

The Blues Room, 16 December 2015

Episode #516

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1. John Lee Hooker - Blues For Christmas

2. Otis Spann - Otis Rides Again

3. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues

4. James Harman - The Clock Is Tickin'

5. Charlie Musselwhite - 300 Miles To Go

6. David Barrett & Aki Kumar - Playin' It Forward

7. Sharon Jones and The Daptones feat. Charles Bradley - World Of Love

8. North Mississippi Allstars feat Anders Osborne - Many Wise Men

9. King Leo - Back It Off

10. Buddy Guy - Crying Out Of One Eye

11. Credirc Burnside Project - Born With It

12. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Lord, I'm Going Down South 

And the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album goes to ... (#419)

The Blues Room #419, 29 January 2014

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Have you heard the news, Grammy Award for Best Blues Album 2013 goes to Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite for their album, 'Get Up!' Well done to these excellent artists. And well done to the other four nominees too, this episode of The Blues Room is dedicated to all of you.

Best Blues Album Nominees

Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite - Get Up! (((WINNER)))

Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia & James Harman -Remembering Little Walter

James Cotton - Cotton Mouth Man

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Seesaw

Bobby Rush - Down in Louisiana

1. Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite - Don't Look Twice

2. James Harman - Crazy Mixed Up World

3. James Cotton feat. Keb Mo - Wasn't My Time To Go

4. Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa - Them There Eyes

5. Bobby Rush - Down In Louisiana

6. North Mississippi Allstars - Rollin n Tumblin

7. Lara Price and Laura Chavez - Face Of The Blues

8. Gary Clark Jr. Things are Changing

9. James Boogaloo Bolden Band Blues Band - No News (just the blues)