Blues Music Award Winner for 2008 Entertainer of the Year was Tommy Castro. You will be hearing Tommy talk about how he got started in music as well as songs from his new Alligator Record Hard Believer. . The first day I was to interview Tommy Castro he was just getting ready to go pick his [...]

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Hear Sandy Mack?s brand new record, as well as Sandy talking about the songs. . Ever sense Dennis Gruenling turned me on to Sandy Mack about a year ago. I?ve wanted to do a show on Sandy Mack unfortunately his last record That’s What I’m Talkin’ About came out in 2001. In trying to do [...]

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Hear Larry McCray talk about his self titled CD Larry McCray. If you like Albert King you will love Larry McCray. . This record of Larry McCray?s came out in August of 2007. Normally I don’t do a show on a record this old but after hearing it there was no way I could wait [...]

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Hear Quintus McCormick talk about his new Delmark record Hey Jody plus hear songs from the CD. . Delmark Records has been releasing some very well received records this year. As you recalled we spoke to Bob Koester the founder of Delmark Records back in May about their release of 55 Years Of Blues (click here [...]

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Laurie Morvan will be talking about her new record that just came out two days ago called Fire It Up. You will also be hearing some of the fiery tracks from the record. Fire It Up is Laurie Morvan?s fourth record and third with the Laurie Morvan Band. As the title implies this [...]

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Hear Sean Chambers talk about his new album, Ten Til Midnight, as well as the songs from it. . Sean Chambers grew up in Tampa Bay, Florida, which is about 30 minutes from where he is currently living in Florida. When he was around ten years old he got his first guitar and would play [...]

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Hear songs from Tinsley Ellis?s new CD Speak No Evil, as well as hearing Tinsley talk about how he got started and the new record. . If you?re new to Tinsley Ellis you have some real catching up to do. With over a dozen records out, spanning from the early eighties to the newest [...]

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Joe Louis Walker released Between A Rock & The Blues two days ago. Now you will hear Joe talk about this new record and hear some new tracks from it. . As you may recall at the beginning of this year I spoke to Joe about his last record Witness to the Blues (To hear that [...]

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Mike Zito?s new CD came out this week and he will be telling us about it as well as letting us hear some of the new songs from the CD Pearl River. . You may remember that last December Mike Zito was on the show talking about his then current CD, Today. Well he?s back [...]

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On this 40th anniversary of Jimmy Dawkins? record Fast Fingers you?ll get to hear Jimmy talk about (and songs from) the one of his monumental records. . Jimmy was born in a cotton field in Tuchla, Mississippi on October 24, 1936. Jimmy said he was out in the cotton fields with his parents and [...]

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This week you will hear an interview with British blues rock artist Innes Sibun, as well as some outstanding tracks from his CD Tail Dragger. . In this week?s show, Innes Sibun talks about growing up in Great Britain listening to the old blues artists like B.B. and Freddie King and how that got him interested in [...]

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Hear the Shirley Johnson interview this week as well as songs from her Delmark record Blues Attack. . Shirley Johnson grew up in Norfolk Virginia where she was singing gospel music in the church when she was only six years old. Shirley loves gospel music and has been singing it all her life. Her family was very religious and [...]

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Hear Al Kooper talk about his amazing life as well as his amazing record White Chocolate. Whether you know the name Al Kooper or not you?ve heard his handy work. Al wrote “This Diamond Ring,” which was a huge hit for Gary Lewis & the Playboys. He played keyboards on Bob Dylan?s 1965 record [...]

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Hear Ana Popovic tell about her new CD Blind for Love. . Ana Popovic (pronounced Ah΄nah Pop΄o vitch) was born in Belgrade, Serbia; formerly Yugoslavia. Her father had to work hard to get his hands on records by Howlin? Wolf, Albert Collins, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. You probably remember all this from the interview [...]

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This week you will get to listen to Stoney Curtis of The Stoney Curtis Band tell about his Blues-Rock CD Raw and Real. A powerful band, giving their audience all they?ve got. . Stoney Curtis is the guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the band. Charlie Glover is the powerhouse drummer and Colby Smith is on [...]

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Hear an interview with Debbie Davies as well as songs from her all-star record Blues Blast. . In this week?s show you will hear Debbie Davies talk about growing up in California, where her father was a professional musician. He wrote music for Disney productions, as well as being a vocalist. Mr. Davies also worked with [...]

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Hear an interview with harpist, vocalist and song-writer Steve Guyger as well as songs from his CD Radio Blues. . In this weeks show you will meet Steve Guyger who grew up and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Many call him a harp player?s harp player. Today most people consider Little Walter to be the [...]

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Hear Joanne Shaw Taylor talk about her debut record White Sugar as well as hearing some great songs from White Sugar. . Joanne Shaw Taylor has released her first record its called White Sugar and it?s on Ruf Records. This record was cut from the same plastic vinyl as Led Zeppelin I. They [...]

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Hear one of this summer?s top records, Superhero, as well as an interview with its star Candye Kane. . Candye talks about working in a church quite early on, then moving on to do country music. In the late seventies Candye was listening to a lot of Linda Ronstadt which turned her on to Hank Williams [...]

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This week you get to hear an interview with Nick Moss, of Nick Moss & the Flip Tops. Nick will be talking about their new CD Live at Chan’s Combo Platter No. 2 and as always you will be hearing songs from the new CD. . Nick Moss was with us back in Oct of [...]

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This week hear an interview with Rod Piazza and songs from his brand new record Soul Monster. . Rod Piazza has been making blues records since way back in 1967. At that time the group was called The Dirty Blues Band. Rod?s interest in the blues goes even farther back to the mid-fifties, when he [...]

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Hear the David Maxwell interview and music from his CD Max Attack. 2009 Blues Music Awards nominated David Maxwell for The Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Award. . David started listening to classical music when he was young, because of this it lead him to begin playing piano. Later in high school he started learning about jazz and [...]

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Hear the interview with Paul Mark and music from his CD Blood and Treasure. . What would you get if you mixed a little bit of William Shakespeare, or maybe Douglas Adams, with a little of Bob Dylan, and a nice helping of Groucho Marx? You just might get Paul Mark a man who?s got [...]

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This week you will get to hear an interview with Cash Box Kings? Joe Nosek and songs from their CD The Royal Treatment. . As Joe will explain in the show, Cash Box Kings are a band that pays tribute to the blues sounds of the nineteen-forties and fifties. Bands like Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, [...]

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Hear the Chris Duarte interview and songs from his latest CD Vantage Point. . Chris Duarte was born in 1963 in San Antonio, Texas. Growing up Chris enjoyed most things kids like, such as sports and music. When he started playing around with his brother?s guitar, Chris found he was a quick learner [...]

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Hear Pierre Lacocque talk about his band Mississippi Heat and their marvelous CD Hattiesburg Blues. . Pierre Lacocque (La-coke) was born in 1952 while his parents were living in Israel. His father was an Old Testament Christian Theologian studding in Jerusalem. His parents were from Belgium, but they moved around quite a bit. From [...]

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Hear Bob Koester the founder of Delmark Records talk about what he likes most, music, his passion. . Bob Koester was born in the early thirties and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. He had a love for jazz of the twenties but had trouble finding the artists he was looking for. The record [...]

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Hear Dean Mueller of the The Insomniacs talk about their new Delta Groove CD At Least I?m Not With You. . Well it?s that time of the year again, when a lot of blues bands are putting out their new CD?s to get ready for the festival season. In past weeks we?ve heard new CD?s [...]

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Hear Alvin Jett talk about their new CD Honey Bowl as well as songs from this new record. . Alvin Jett was born in the early sixties, in East St. Louis to a family of music lovers. His father was a postal worker, who also played drums for blues bands that would come through town [...]

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Congratulations to Jason Ricci, The Blues Foundation has nominated him for a 2009 Blues Music Award in the category of ?Instrumentalist-Harmonica?. . This week you will get a triple threat. You get to hear songs form the two-day-old CD Done With The Devil before it ascends to the top of the blues charts. You will [...]

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Hear Big Shanty talk about starting out in a rock band. Then switching to working behind the scenes for people like Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton) and the Allman Brothers. He never stop writing songs or playing the guitar though. Now he has his own record label King [...]

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Hear the interview with Big James as he talks about his CD Thank God I Got the Blues. . Big James got to see James Brown in concert around 1968 when he was only 7 years old. From then own James was hooked on music. He started off taking guitar lessons in grade school but [...]

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Congratulations to Delta Highway, The Blues Foundation has nominated them for a 2009 Blues Music Award in the category of ?Best New Artist Debut? for the CD The Devil Had a Woman. Hear the interview with Delta Highway?s, Brandon Santini, harmonica player, vocalist, and songwriter for this great blues band. . . Brandon Santini started playing the harp when [...]

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Hear the big man him self, Big George Brock talks about working the cotton fields with Muddy Waters. How he ran his own clubs where Albert King started out. George turned down a recording contract with Chest Records, but later got a good deal from Cat Head Records. You?ll [...]

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Hear the Bob Margolin interview. Bob talks about his days in the Muddy Waters Band and about making his CD In North Carolina. See other great photos by Aigars Lapsa at his Website. Bob Margolin was born in 1949 and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He was listening to soul and rock?n roll in the [...]

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Hear the Joe Louis Walker interview as he talks about his blues journey as well as songs from Witness to the Blues which is one of the top selling blues CDs right now. . Joe Louis Walker was born in San Francisco on Dec. 25, 1949. Joe?s interest in music started at a young age. [...]

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Hear former band members of Pat Ramsey & the Blues Disciples talk about Pat from his start with Johnny Winter up until till his untimely passing a few months ago. Jason Ricci will also talk about Pat?s profound influence on his harp playing and on saving his life. . Pat Ramsey was born in [...]

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Hear the Byther Smith interview and songs from four of his CD?s on Delmark Records. Byther is one of the old time Chicago blues artists. . Byther Smith was born on April 17, 1932 in Monticello, Mississippi to a large family unfortunately both his mother and father pass away while he was very young. [...]

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Congratulations to Walter Trout, The Blues Foundation has nominated him for a 2009 Blues Music Award in the category of ?Rock Blues Album of the Year? for the CD The Outsider. Hear the Walter Trout interview where he talks about being in John Mayall?s Bluesbreakers. Walter also talks about his CD The Outsider, which [...]

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Hear the Chris Bell interview and songs from his CD Real Bluesman. This is a CD full of blues and blues-rock if you like Albert King, Albert Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan or even more traditional acoustic blues there is something here for you. Chris Bell was born February 15, 1962 in Washington [...]

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Hear the Charles ?Big Daddy? Stallings interview and some of the most fun, up beat jazzy-blues you will hear this side of heaven. Come on let?s boogie. . Charles ?Big Daddy? Stallings was raised in Hobbsville, N.C. When Charles was six or seven years old he heard Fred Hill playing an electric guitar for the [...]

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