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<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose&nbsp;</p>
<p>Otis Spann / Otis in the Dark&nbsp;</p>
<p>Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith and His Crackerjacks / Pickin’ the Blues&nbsp;</p>
<p>Duke Robillard / Rock Alley&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jimmy Smith / Blues In The Night&nbsp;</p>
<p>Rory Block / In My Girlish Days&nbsp;</p>
<p>New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers feat. Charlie Musselwhite / Blues For Yesterday&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ruthie Foster / Might Not Be Right (Live)&nbsp;</p>
<p>Liz Mandeville;Philippe Fernandez;Gilles Gabbisson / How Many Times (Do You Get to Break My Heart) [feat. Philippe Fernandez &amp; Gilles Gabbisson]…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6889591/wfhb-s-blue-monday-playlist-springtime-for-blues">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Playlist:&nbsp;</p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kim Wilson / If It Ain't Me&nbsp;</p>
<p>Steve Cropper / Bush Hog&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jimmy Johnson / Better When It's Wet&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jerry "Boogie" McCain / Steady (Fifties Classic)&nbsp;</p>
<p>Robert Cray Band / Anything You Want&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jimmy Smith / I Got My Mojo Workin'&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dave Bartholomew / The Monkey&nbsp;</p>
<p>Elvis Presley / Too Much Monkey Business&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ann Peebles / I Can't Stand the Rain&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ruth Brown / Hello Little Boy&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bettye LaVette / Romance In The Dark&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jessie Mae Hemphill / Go Back to Your Used to Be&nbsp;</p>
<p>Nora Jean Wallace /…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6902545/wfhb-s-blue-monday-playlist-may-in-bloomington">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jimmy And Walter / EASY&nbsp;</p>
<p>Little Walter / Flying Saucer&nbsp;</p>
<p>Chuck Berry / Guitar Boogie&nbsp;</p>
<p>John Davis / Davis Boogie - John Davis&nbsp;</p>
<p>Louis Myers / Top Of The Harp&nbsp;</p>
<p>Tampa Red / Texas Stomp&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jimmy Reed / St Louis Blues&nbsp;</p>
<p>Denise LaSalle / It's Lying Time Again&nbsp;</p>
<p>Keith Richards / My Babe&nbsp;</p>
<p>Koko Taylor / I Cried Like a Baby&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lynn White / Anyway the Wind Blows&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sarah Vaughan / The Other Woman&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lil Johnson / My Stove's In Good Condition&nbsp;</p>
<p>Leroy Carr / Rocks In My Bed&nbsp;</p>
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  <div class="message"><p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose&nbsp;</p>
<p>Otis Spann / Otis in the Dark&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jody Williams / Hide Out&nbsp;</p>
<p>Freddy King / Wash Out&nbsp;</p>
<p>Walter Horton / Easy&nbsp;</p>
<p>Johnny Burgin / Cherry on Top&nbsp;</p>
<p>Joyann Parker / Gone so Long&nbsp;</p>
<p>Malaya Blue / Why is Peace so Hard&nbsp;</p>
<p>Nora Jean Wallace / Look over Yonder&nbsp;</p>
<p>Elmore James / Look On Yonder Wall&nbsp;</p>
<p>B.B. King / Caldonia&nbsp;</p>
<p>George Thorogood &amp; The Destroyers / Willie and the Hand Jive&nbsp;</p>
<p>Eric Clapton / Blow Wind Blow&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dinah Washington / Short John&nbsp;</p>
<p>Howlin' Wolf / Down In the Bottom&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sir Rod &amp; the Blues…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6902554/wfhb-s-blue-monday-playlist-marching-into-march">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <a href="/blog/blog/6112377/famous-pakistani-truck-painter-haider-ali-painted-one-of-my-guitars">Famous Pakistani Truck Painter Haider Ali painted one of my guitars</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>On Labor Day 2018 the famed Pakistani Truck Painter Haider Ali painted one of my guitars -- it was an amazing afternoon.</p>
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<p>All made possible by Mark Richardson!&nbsp;</p>
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  <div class="message"><p>This year marks the 35th anniversary of "<a href="https://youtu.be/WPkw42L97Aw">Somethin' Gotta Be Arranged</a>," a film about Rhode Island country-blues guitarist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Geremia">Paul Geremia</a>, created as a student project by Geoff Adams.</p>
<p>I recently interviewed Geoff about the film and it was the featured segment of the November 12, 2018, edition of Blue Monday, WFHB's long-running blues radio show. (Here is the film on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/WPkw42L97Aw">https://youtu.be/WPkw42L97Aw</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;~18 minutes -- More links below.)</p>
<p>Before the interview, I played two brief audio clips from the film.&nbsp; In…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6112376/somethin-gotta-be-arranged-a-film-portrait-of-paul-geremia-by-geoff-adams">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p><a href="http://indiana.edu/~relstud/people/profiles/harriss_cooper">M Cooper Harriss</a> and I often have great discussions about the intersections of race and literature and music.&nbsp; Many of those conversations are over beer and wine in pubs and living rooms, but we have been fortunate enough to capture some of them on the air -- often as part of my monthly DJ slot on <a href="http://wfhb.org">WFHB’s </a>&nbsp;Blue Monday, the radio show devoted to contemporary and classic blues. Past on-air conversations were about Zora Neale Hurston and Bob Dylan. This time the impetus was Cooper's new book,&nbsp;<a href="https://nyupress.org/books/9781479823017/"><em><strong>Ralph Ellison's</strong></em></a>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6112375/one-blues-indivisible-invisible-man-and-invisible-theology">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith">Bessie Smith</a></strong> was the featured artist on my March 2, 2018, Blue Monday radio show on WFHB.&nbsp; Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, about 1894, Bessie played on the street with her brother and then joined the Ma Rainey traveling show sometime in the early 1920s.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>After Mamie Smith’s (no relation) <strong><a href="https://youtu.be/qaz4Ziw_CfQ">Crazy Blues </a></strong>&nbsp;became a massive hit in 1920, talent scouts searched for more female blues artists and indeed they found some great ones: not only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Rainey">Rainey </a>(“The Mother of the Blues”) but her amazing protégé, Bessie Smith…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6112374/i-m-just-going-down-the-road-to-see-bessie-smith">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>The featured artist for my <a href="http://wfhb.org/">WFHB</a>&nbsp;Blue Monday DJ slot on Monday, February, 12, 2018, was <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Reed">Jimmy Reed</a>,</strong> the deeply influential Mississippi-Chicago bluesman, who was born in 1925 in the Delta and died in California in 1976. Reed was an active musician in the Chicago area and had many R&amp;B -- and a few pop -- hit songs in the 1950s and 1960s.</p>
<p>Many peoples’ first encounter with Chicago blues -- any kind of blues -- is through songs Reed wrote and recorded. Many of these songs were in turn covered (in his life…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/6112373/jimmy-reed-and-the-casa-linda-lowlife">Read more</a></span></div>
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