tag:jasonfickel.com,2005:/blogs/blog?p=1Blog2023-01-03T07:31:24-08:00Jason Fickelfalsetag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/71319072022-12-05T07:00:00-08:002023-01-03T07:40:02-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: Celebrating Sonny Boy Williamson + Merry Christmas Baby!<p>Nina Simone "Blues On Purpose" <br>Otis Spann "Otis in the Dark" <br>Big Bill Broonzy "House Rent Stomp" <br>Louis Myers "Top Of The Harp" <br>Johnny Littlejohn "Take One" <br>Jody Williams "Hideout" <br>The Fabulous Thunderbirds "Winter Wonderland" <br>King Bee & the Stingers "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" <br>Bobby "Blue" Bland "New Merry Christmas Baby" <br>Bobby "Blue" Bland "You Are My Christmas" <br>Sister Rosetta Tharpe "Strange Things Happening Every Day" <br>Sonny Boy Williamson "Cool, Cool Blues" <br>Sonny Boy Williamson "Don't Start Me To Talkin'" <br>The Animals "I Don't Care No More" <br>Little Charlie & The Nightcats "Too Close Together" <br>Little Richard "Keep On Knockin" <br>John Lee Hooker "Black Night" <br>Miko Marks, the Resurrectors "One More Night" <br>Trudy Lynn "Tell Me" <br>Buddy Guy "House Party" <br>Robert Cray "You're the One" <br>Alex Chilton "Big Boss Man" <br>Steve Howell & The Mighty Men "Bad Boy" <br>Diunna Greenleaf "Back Door Man" <br>Lou Rawls "Please Send Me Someone to Love" <br>Jimmie Lunceford "Rhythm Is Our Business" <br>Eric Clapton "Reconsider Baby (Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994)" <br>Fluffy Hunter "The Walkin´ Blues" <br>Chuck Berry "Wee, Wee Hours" <br>Willie Mitchell "Buster Brown"</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/71319062022-11-21T07:00:00-08:002023-01-03T07:38:02-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: Remembering Duane Allman<p>Nina Simone "Blues On Purpose" <br>Jimmy Yancey "Yancey stomp" <br>Little Walter "Rocker" <br>Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters "Dave's Groove" <br>Freddy King "High Rise" <br>Buddy Guy "Blues Don't Lie" <br>Taj Mahal "The Midnight Special" <br>Charlie Musselwhite "Crawling King Snake" <br>Bonnie Raitt "Made Up Mind" <br>Keb' Mo' "So Easy" <br>Shemekia Copeland "Done Come Too Far feat. Cedric Burnside" <br>Miko Marks "Feel Like Going Home" <br>Dave Weld & The Imperial Flames "Mary Who" <br>Duane Allman "B.B. King Medley: Sweet Little Angel / It's My Own Fault / How Blue Can You Get" <br>Allman Brothers Band "Trouble No More" <br>The Allman Brothers Band "Dimples" <br>Irma Thomas "Since I Fell For You" <br>John Lee Hooker "Huckle Up Baby" <br>Hank Ballard and The Midnighters "Sweet Mama, Do Right" <br>Larry Williams "Rockin Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu" <br>Otis Redding "Lucille" <br>Ella Johnson "Till My Baby Comes Back" <br>Esther Phillips "No Headstone on My Grave" <br>Dorothy Moore "Misty Blue" <br>Little Milton "Cheatin' Is Risky Business" <br>Shirley Johnson "Killer Diller" <br>Trudy Lynn "Life Goes on (feat. Anson Funderburgh)" <br>Percy Mayfield "Hit The Road Jack [Vocal Version]" <br>Jimmy Reed "Ends and Odds"</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/71319052022-10-24T07:00:00-07:002023-01-03T07:36:15-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: Celebrating the Birthday of Bettye Swann<p>Etta James "Mean Mother" <br>Nina Simone "Blues On Purpose" <br>George Barnes "Bass Guitar Blues" <br>Duke Robillard "Swingin' For Four Bills" <br>Frank Frost & The Nighthawks "Jack's Jump" <br>Count Basie And His Orchestra "One O'Clock Jump" <br>Sonny Landreth "Heavy Heart Rising" <br>Asleep At The Wheel "The Wheel Boogie" <br>Asleep At The Wheel "It's the Same Old South" <br>Louis Jordan "Choo Choo Ch'boogie" <br>Bettye Swann "Make Me Yours" <br>Bettye Swann "Don't Touch Me" <br>Bettye Swann "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" <br>Rory Block "I Cried Like A Baby" <br>Buddy Guy "Blues Don't Lie" <br>Shemekia Copeland "Too Far To Be Gone feat. Sonny Landreth" <br>Janiva Magness "Strong as Steel" <br>John Németh "Come on in This House" <br>John Primer "Try To Make You Mine" <br>Jackie Ross "Take Me for a Little While" <br>Bettye LaVette "Piece of My Heart" <br>Aretha Franklin "Evil Gal Blues" <br>Dinah Washington "New Blowtop Blues" <br>Ella Johnson with Buddy Johnson and his Orchestra "Stand Back and Smile" <br>Tampa Red "Evalena" <br>Lil Green "Why Don't You Do Right?" <br>Wynona Carr "'Til the Well Runs Dry" <br>Floyd Dixon "Please Don't Go" <br>James Son Thomas "Take a Little Walk" <br>Bobby Bland "This Time I'm Gone For Good" <br>Sam Cooke "Mean Old World" <br>Anson Funderburgh and The Rockets "Backstroke"</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/71319042022-09-26T07:00:00-07:002023-01-03T07:34:13-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: September 2022<p>Nina Simone "Blues On Purpose" <br>William Clarke "Greasy Gravy" <br>Roomful of Blues "Albi's Boogie" <br>Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble "Chitlins Con Carne" <br>Eddie Rivers "Perdido" <br>Grant Dermody, Frank Fotusky "Papa's On The Housetop" <br>Donna Herula "Pass the Biscuits feat. Doug Hammer" <br>Kilborn Alley "Illinois" <br>Shemekia Copeland "Nobody But You" <br>John Németh "Feeling Good" <br>Janiva Magness "Don't You Forget About Me" <br>Ann Peebles "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down" <br>Ella Johnson "Till My Baby Comes Back" <br>Billie Holiday "Baby Get Lost" <br>Memphis Minnie "If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home)" <br>Sugar Pie DeSanto "Hello, San Francisco (Part 1)" <br>Koko Taylor "Wang Dang Doodle" <br>Jackie Ross "Selfish One" <br>Valerie Wellington "A Fool For You" <br>Jan Bradley "Mama Didn't Lie" <br>Barbara Lynn "Lynn's Blues" <br>Etta James "Two Sides (To Every Story)" <br>Jessie Mae Hemphill "Streamline Train" <br>Little Milton "How Could You Do It to Me" <br>Pete Johnson "Let 'Em Jump" <br>Peetie Wheatstraw "I Don't Feel Sleepy" <br>Rosetta Howard "Come Easy Go Easy" <br>Paul Gayten "You Better Believe It" <br>Ann Cole "Got My Mo-Jo Working (But It Just Won't Work on You)" <br>Otis Clay "Trying to Live My Life Without You" <br>Charles Brown "Someone To Love" <br>Sister Rosetta Tharpe "Nobody's Fault But Mine"</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/71319032022-08-29T00:00:00-07:002023-10-16T07:56:07-07:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: Celebrating Dinah Washington<p>Nina Simone "Blues On Purpose" <br>Frank Frost "Jack's Jump" <br>Little Walter "Off the Wall" <br>Jimmy Yancey "Yancey Stomp" <br>Meade Lux Lewis "Doll House Boogie" <br>Noble "Thin Man" Watts "Skunky" <br>Alex Chilton "Frame For the Blues" <br>Les Paul "Les's Country Blues" <br>Duke Robillard "Swingin' For Four Bills" <br>Freddie King "Butterscotch" <br>Freddy King "Just Pickin' (Instrumental)" <br>Bob Dylan "Cry a While" <br>Muddy Waters "I Be's Troubled" <br>Bonnie Raitt "Made Up Mind" <br>Paul Gayten "You Better Believe It" <br>Jim Jackson "Jim Jackson's Jamboree (Part I)" <br>Dinah Washington "Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This" <br>Dinah Washington "What a Difference a Day Makes" <br>Dinah Washington "Long John Blues" <br>Charlie Parker "Cool Blues" <br>Cab Calloway & His Orchestra "(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive (78rpm Version)" <br>Delbert McClinton "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" <br>Charlie Musselwhite "Crawling King Snake" <br>Kilborn Alley "Do Your Dance" <br>Ben Harper "Problem Child" <br>Taj Mahal "My Baby Done Changed the Lock on the Door" <br>Scrapper Blackwell "Barrelhouse Woman No. 2" <br>B.B. King "Don't Answer the Door (Live At The International Club, Chicago/1966)" <br>Nat King Cole "Joe Turner's Blues" <br>Ann Peebles "Part Time Love" <br>Slim Harpo "Baby Scratch My Back" <br>Future Islands "Aladdin"</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/71319012022-07-18T07:00:00-07:002023-01-03T07:29:56-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: July 2022<p>Nina Simone "Blues On Purpose" <br>Jimmy Smith "C Jam Blues" <br>Anson Funderburgh and The Rockets "Meanstreak" <br>The Fabulous Thunderbirds "Jumpin' Bad" <br>Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters "Soul Searching" <br>Albert Collins "The Freeze (Studio Version)" <br>Jerry "Boogie" McCain "Steady (Fifties Classic)" <br>Nancy Sinatra "What'd I say" <br>Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder "The Midnight Special" <br>Charlie Musselwhite "Blues Up The River" <br>Dave Weld & The Imperial Flames "Don't Ever Change Your Ways" <br>Carolyn Wonderland "Honey Bee" <br>Jerry "Boogie" McCain "Steady (Fifties Classic)" <br>Buddy Johnson/Ella Johnson "That's How I Feel About You" <br>Merry Clayton "I Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Away" <br>Bettye LaVette "Romance In The Dark" <br>Una Mae Carlisle "Stop Going Through the Motions" <br>Dinah Washington "I Know How to Do It" <br>Little Walter "Juke" <br>Mattie Delaney "Tallahatchie River Blues" <br>Lil Armstrong "Or Leave Me Alone" <br>Lillian Glinn "Shake It Down" <br>Bertha "Chippie" Hill "Pratt City Blues" <br>Ida Cox "One Hour Mama" <br>Jessie Mae Hemphill "Go Back to Your Used to Be" <br>The Robert Cray Band "Phone Booth" <br>Mitty Collier "I'm Your Part Time Love" <br>Lynn White "Anyway the Wind Blows" <br>Koko Taylor "Wang Dang Doodle" <br>Jimmy McCracklin and Irma Thomas "Tomorrow" <br>Donna Herula "Black Ice" <br>Nat King Cole "Beale Street Blues" <br>Denise LaSalle and Satisfaction "I'm Trippin' On You" <br>Dorothy Moore "Misty Blue" <br>Chris Isaak "Diddley Daddy" <br>Jay McShann and His Orchestra "Hootie Blues" <br>Walter Horton "Easy"</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/69935962022-06-06T08:45:00-07:002023-01-03T07:10:47-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: Celebrating the Birthday of Jimmie Lunceford<p>On this show, I featured the music of Jimmie Lunceford, on what would have been his 120th birthday!</p>
<p>Artist / Song <br>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose <br>Pete Johnson / G-Flat Blues <br>Albert Collins / Ice Pick <br>B.B. King / Really the Blues Aka Slidin' and Glidin' <br>Sugar Ray and the Bluetones / Reel Burner <br>Jerry 'Boogie' McCain / Steady <br>Jimmy Lunceford & His Orchestra / Tain't What You Do <br>Jimmie Lunceford / Rhythm Is Our Business <br>Jimmie Lunceford / Uptown Blues <br>Jimmy Lunceford & His Orchestra / Lunceford Special <br>Sugar Ray & the Bluetones / It Ain't Funny <br>Ella Fitzgerald / Wee Baby Blues <br>Bobby "Blue" Bland / Second Hand Heart <br>Little Milton / My Dog And Me <br>Toni Lynn Washington / Checkin' Up On My Baby <br>Jack Whittle / Helping Hand <br>Jose Ramirez / I Saw It Coming (Feat. Jimmy Johnson) <br>Delbert McClinton / Stagger Lee <br>Larry McCray / Without Love It Doesn't Matter <br>Denise LaSalle and Satisfaction / Got Myself a Handyman <br>Johnnie Taylor / Last Two Dollars <br>Mildred Bailey / That Ain't Right <br>Blue Lou Barker / I Don't Dig You Jack <br>Jimmy Rogers / You're The One <br>Peetie Wheatstraw / One To Twelve <br>Wynonie Harris / In the Evenin' Blues <br>The Legendary Blues Band / Streamlined Baby <br>Little Walter & Baby Face Leroy Foster / Muskadine Blues <br>Jimmy Witherspoon / Ain’t Nobody’s Business <br>Willie Dixon / Big 3 Stomp</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/69688842022-05-11T13:14:08-07:002022-06-14T08:30:17-07:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: Celebrating 2022 Blues Music Award Winners<p>This show celebrated the 2022 Blues Music Award Winners.</p>
<p>Here's the playlist:</p>
<p>Artist / Song <br>Nina Simone / Blues on Purpose <br>George Barnes / Bass Guitar Blues <br>Melvin Sparks / Texas Twister <br>The Gas Lantern featuring Charlie McCoy / Mach 1 <br>Freddie King / Butterscotch <br>Big Joe and The Dynaflows / Smells Like Bar-B-Q <br>Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind / Listen Here <br>John Németh / Throw Me in the Water <br>Sue Foley / Dallas Man <br>Selwyn Birchwood / I'd Climb Mountains <br>Christone "Kingfish" Ingram / 662 <br>Tommy Castro / Somewhere <br>Keb' Mo' / Good To Be (Home Again) <br>Curtis Salgado / Count Of Three <br>Mike Zito / I'll Make Love to You <br>Rodd Bland, The Members Only Band / Up and Down World (Live) <br>Bobby Bland / Get Your Money Where You Spend Your Time <br>Etta James / Next Door to the Blues <br>Etta James / Fools Rush In <br>Mickey and Sylvia / Love Is Strange <br>Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra / Back O' Town Blues (Live) <br>Wynonie Harris / Rose Get Your Clothes <br>Little Johnny Taylor / Everybody Knows About My Good Thing (Part 1)<br>Little Johnny Taylor / Everybody Knows About My Good Thing (Part 2) <br>Rosco Gordon / Hey Hey Girl <br>Sue Foley / Pinky's Blues <br>Duke Robillard / Rambler Blues <br>Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes & the Playboys / Blind Man I Pity The Fool <br>Alex Chilton/Hi Rhythm Section / Big Boss Man (Live) <br>Willie Dixon / O.C. Bounce</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/69465162022-04-11T23:00:00-07:002022-04-12T07:10:08-07:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: Celebrating Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson<p>April 11, 2022 playlist</p>
<p><br>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose <br>Bobby Rush / Bobby Rush Shuffle <br>Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers / Boyd’s Tin Roof Blues <br>Les Paul / Dance Hall Blues <br>Charlie McCoy & The Escorts / Juke <br>Kevin Greenwood / New Shoes <br>Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson / Get On the Floor <br>Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson / I Gotta Move Out of My Neighborhood <br>Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson / Walkin' With You Baby <br>John Campbell / Judgement Day <br>Dorothy Moore / Funny How Time Slips Away <br>Denise LaSalle / Don't Mess with My Man <br>Randy Newman / Blue Monday <br>Joanne Shaw Taylor feat. Joe Bonamassa / Don't Go Away Mad <br>Tinsley Ellis / Step Up <br>Duke Robillard / Champagne Mind <br>Shemekia Copeland / Bring Your Fine Self Home <br>Chickenbone Slim / City Girl <br>Sugar Pie DeSanto / Hello, San Francisco (Part 1) <br>Davy Knowles / Hell To Pay <br>Debbie Davies / When You Got A Good Friend <br>Keb' Mo' / Good To Be (Home Again) <br>Marcia Ball / Let Me Play With Your Poodle <br>Bob Stroger/The Headcutters / Stranded in St. Louis <br>Victoria Spivey / You're My Man <br>Mabel Franklin / Let's Do the Wiggle <br>Mabel Scott / Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train <br>Etta James / Something's Got a Hold On Me <br>Sonny Boy Williamson / Sonny's Rhythm, Pt. 2</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/69259512022-03-14T11:00:00-07:002022-03-18T11:45:21-07:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist -- celebrating Doc Pomus -- March 14, 2022<p><br>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose <br>Frank Frost / Jack's Jump <br>Sue Foley / Pinky's Blues <br>Billy F Gibbons / Crackin’ Up <br>Mad Dog Lester Davenport / West Side Blues Harp <br>Elvis Presley / A Mess Of Blues <br>Charlie McCoy & The Escorts / Juke <br>Irma Thomas / There Must Be A Better World Somewhere <br>Los Lobos / Lonely Avenue <br>B.B. King / Blinded By Love <br>Freddy King / The Stumble <br>Big Jack Johnson / Oil Man <br>B.B. King / Why I Sing the Blues (Summer of Soul Soundtrack - Live at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival) <br>Koko Taylor / 63 Year Old Mama <br>Robert Cray Band / Burying Ground <br>Jimmy Reed / Ends And Odds <br>Gov't Mule / Snatch It Back And Hold It > Hold It Back > Snatch It Back And Hold It <br>Joanne Shaw Taylor / Two Time My Lovin' <br>Duke Robillard / No Place To Go <br>Donna Herula / Black Ice <br>Robert Pete Williams / Matchbox Blues <br>Ray Charles / Blue Is My Middle Name <br>Wynonie Harris / Mr. Blues Jumped a Rabbit <br>Les Paul / Les's Country Blues <br>Z.Z Hill / That's it <br>Roy Milton / Oh Babe <br>Slim Harpo / Mohair Sam <br>Tiny Bradshaw / The Train Kept a-Rollin' <br>Lowell Fulson, Jeff Dale / Stoop Down Baby - Live <br>Carey Bell / Carey's Rhumba <br>Billie Pierce / Jelly Roll <br>Sonny Boy Williamson / Cat Hop <br> </p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/69025422022-02-14T10:00:00-08:002022-03-18T11:45:45-07:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: Magic Sam's Birthday<p>This WFHB Blue Monday playlist from 2/14/2022 featured some tunes from Magic Sam on his birthday:</p>
<p><br>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>Harmonica George / Sputnik Music </p>
<p>Snooks Eaglin / You and Me </p>
<p>Joe Louis Walker / 2120 South Michigan Avenue </p>
<p>Magic Sam / I Need You so Bad </p>
<p>Magic Sam / Sweet Home Chicago </p>
<p>Magic Sam / Lookin' Good </p>
<p>Magic Sam / It's All Your Fault </p>
<p>Dinah Washington / Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning </p>
<p>Joanne Shaw Taylor feat. Mike Farris / I Don't Know What You've Got</p>
<p>Barbara Lynn / Sweet Sixteen </p>
<p>Syl Johnson / Driving Wheel </p>
<p>Donna Herula / Bang at the Door </p>
<p>Nina Simone / Gin House Blues </p>
<p>Lowell Fulson, Jeff Dale / Stoop Down Baby - Live </p>
<p>Al Miller / Can't Stay Here No More </p>
<p>Tinsley Ellis / One Last Ride </p>
<p>Dave Specter & Barkin' Bill Smith / Wind Chill </p>
<p>Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne / Stewball </p>
<p>Grana Louise / You've Been a Good Ole Wagon </p>
<p>Hadda Brooks / I Hadn't Anyone Till You </p>
<p>Aretha Franklin / Today I Sing the Blues </p>
<p>Chuck Berry / Carol </p>
<p>Jerry "Boogie" McCain / Steady </p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/68888852022-01-17T00:00:00-08:002022-02-05T10:17:59-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday playlist: Featuring Paul Rishell<p>This WFHB Blue Monday playlist from 1/17/2022 featured some tunes from Paul Rishell on his birthday!</p>
<p>Playlist </p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>Little Charlie & the Nightcats / Jump Start </p>
<p>Jody Williams / Hideout </p>
<p>Albert Collins / The Freeze </p>
<p>The Bar-Kays / Soul Finger (Remastered Album Version) </p>
<p>Little Walter & His Night Cats / Juke </p>
<p>Jimmy Reed / Ends And Odds </p>
<p>Billy Stewart / Billy’s Blues, Pt. 1 </p>
<p>Billy Stewart / Billy's Blues, Pt. 2 </p>
<p>Junior Kimbrough / All Night Long </p>
<p>Junior Kimbrough / Sad Days, Lonely Nights </p>
<p>Paul Rishell / Nothin' But The Devil </p>
<p>Paul Rishell / Michigan Water Blues (feat. Annie Raines) </p>
<p>Paul Rishell & Annie Raines / Some of These Days </p>
<p>Anson Funderburgh and The Rockets / Backstroke </p>
<p>Billy F Gibbons / Vagabond Man </p>
<p>GA-20 / Sitting At Home Alone </p>
<p>Christone "Kingfish" Ingram / Your Time Is Gonna Come </p>
<p>Sue Foley / Someday </p>
<p>Corey Harris / Special Rider Blues </p>
<p>Wee Willie Walker, The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra / Don’t Let Me Get in Your Way </p>
<p>Lindsay Beaver / You've Got No Right </p>
<p>Wynona Carr / 'Til The Well Runs Dry </p>
<p>The Fabulous Thunderbirds / Stagger Lee </p>
<p>Ruth Brown / Hello Little Boy </p>
<p>Nina Simone / Chilly Winds Don't Blow </p>
<p>Memphis Minnie / Killer Diller Blues </p>
<p>Sam Cooke / Mean Old World </p>
<p>Esther Phillips / No Headstone On My Grave </p>
<p>Blind Willie Johnson / God Moves On The Water</p>
<p>The Big Trio / Big Three Stomp</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/68895652021-12-20T00:00:00-08:002022-02-05T09:54:11-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday: Special Xmas Blues show<p>The one featured some Christmas Blues gems:</p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues on Purpose </p>
<p>Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown / Cold Strings </p>
<p>Bill Doggett / Honky Tonk Pt.1 </p>
<p>Bill Dogget / Honky Tonk Pt 2 </p>
<p>Earl Hooker / The Hucklebuck </p>
<p>Don Covay & The Goodtimers / Love Boat </p>
<p>The Fabulous Thunderbirds / Winter Wonderland (Album Version) </p>
<p>Chuck Berry / Run Rudolph Run </p>
<p>Ella Fitzgerald / Good Morning Blues </p>
<p>Elvis Presley / Blue Christmas </p>
<p>Bob Dylan / The Christmas Blues </p>
<p>Sonny Boy Williamson / Santa Claus </p>
<p>Willie Nelson / Christmas Blues </p>
<p>Bobby "Blue" Bland / New Merry Christmas Baby </p>
<p>Bobby Bland / You Are My Christmas </p>
<p>Etta James / White Christmas </p>
<p>C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band / Zydeco Christmas </p>
<p>Roy Byrd & His Blues Jumpers / Bald Head </p>
<p>James Cotton / Cotton Crop Blues </p>
<p>Barbara Lynn / Sweet Sixteen </p>
<p>Wilbert Harrison / Get It While You Can </p>
<p>The Robert Cray Band / Phone Booth </p>
<p>Lindsay Beaver / One Condition </p>
<p>Wee Willie Walker, The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra / Don’t Let Me Get in Your Way </p>
<p>Adia Victoria / My Oh My </p>
<p>Carolyn Wonderland / Texas Girl And Her Boots </p>
<p>Pete Johnson / G-Flat Blues </p>
<p>Otis Spann / The Hard Way </p>
<p>Charlie Parker / Slam Slam Blues (Master Take) [Bonus Track] </p>
<p>Jack McVae and His All Stars / That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch </p>
<p>Bessie Smith / Me and My Gin </p>
<p>Jimmy Reed / How Long How Long Blues </p>
<p>Bo Diddley / Bo's Guitar</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/68895672021-11-08T10:00:00-08:002022-02-05T10:05:49-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday: Celebrating the Birthday of Bonnie Raitt<p>Featured artist: Bonnie Raitt (on her Birthday)</p>
<p>Playlist: </p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>Paul Gayten / The Sweeper </p>
<p>Freddie King / Butterscotch </p>
<p>Kim Wilson / Strollin' </p>
<p>Rick Estrin & The Nightcats / Bo Dee's Bounce </p>
<p>Rusty Zinn / Jr. Jives </p>
<p>The James Harman Band / Torqueflite 727 </p>
<p>Bonnie Raitt / Walking Blues </p>
<p>Bonnie Raitt / I Believe I'm In Love With You </p>
<p>Bonnie Raitt / Unintended Consequence Of Love </p>
<p>Mississippi Fred McDowell / 61 Highway </p>
<p>Lonnie Pitchford / Boogie Chillun </p>
<p>Lightning Hopkins / Sad News From Korea </p>
<p>Frank Hutchinson / KC Blues </p>
<p>Jimmy Rogers / Money, Marbles And Chalk </p>
<p>Slim Harpo / Baby Scratch My Back </p>
<p>Little Walter & Baby Face Leroy Foster / Muskadine Blues </p>
<p>Sue Foley / Say It's Not So </p>
<p>Mike Zito / Dreaming of You </p>
<p>Adia Victoria / Mean-Hearted Woman </p>
<p>Carolyn Wonderland / Broken Hearted Blues </p>
<p>Catfish Keith / Listen to the Mockingbird </p>
<p>Tommy Castro / Somewhere (Reprise) </p>
<p>Christone "Kingfish" Ingram / Your Time Is Gonna Come </p>
<p>Mark Hummel / Freight Train </p>
<p>Billy F Gibbons / Vagabond Man </p>
<p>Bob Dylan / Mother of Muses </p>
<p>Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown / Leftover Blues </p>
<p>The Valentinos / It's All Over Now </p>
<p>Una Mae Carlisle / Stop Goin' Through the Motions </p>
<p>Rosco Gordon / Bop With Me Baby </p>
<p>Jimmy Reed / Worried Life Blues </p>
<p>Albert Collins / The Freeze (Studio Version)</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/68895692021-11-01T10:00:00-07:002022-02-05T10:22:15-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday radio show: Celebrating Sippie Wallace<p>This show's featured artist is Sippie Wallace, born on November 1, 1898, and died on November 1, 1986. Includes tunes from her peers and proteges. Here's the playlist:</p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>Sue Foley / Okie Dokie Stomp </p>
<p>Dave Specter / Soul Drop </p>
<p>Cleo Brown / Pinetop's Boogie Woogie </p>
<p>Kim Wilson / Out of the Fryin' Pan </p>
<p>Sippie Wallace / I'm a Mighty Tight Woman </p>
<p>Sippie Wallace / Suitcase Blues </p>
<p>Bonnie Raitt / Women Be Wise (Remastered Version) </p>
<p>Hociel Thomas / Go Down Sunshine (feat. Mutt Carey) </p>
<p>Victoria Spivey / Dope Head Blues </p>
<p>Trixie Smith / Jack I'm Mellow </p>
<p>Tampa Red / Early In the Morning </p>
<p>Duane Allman / Goin' Down Slow </p>
<p>Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats / Rocket 88 </p>
<p>Dewey Phillips / Red Hot and Blue </p>
<p>Wynonie Harris / Wynonie's Blues </p>
<p>Cab Calloway / The Jumping Jive </p>
<p>Lowell Fulsom / Make a Little Love </p>
<p>Jimmy Reed / Texas is so Doggone Big </p>
<p>Howlin Wolf / Howlin' Blues </p>
<p>Bobby Bland / I Can't Stop </p>
<p>Rodd Bland, The Members Only Band / Soon as the Weather Breaks (Live) </p>
<p>Adia Victoria / Mean-Hearted Woman </p>
<p>Mickey Baker / Corrina, Corrina </p>
<p>Chuck Berry / I Can't Believe </p>
<p>Helene Dixon / Roll over Beethoven </p>
<p>B.B. King / Into the Night </p>
<p>Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes & the Playboys / Going Back Home </p>
<p>Chet Atkins / Guitar Blues (Picking the Blue) </p>
<p>Scrapper Blackwell / Kokomo Blues </p>
<p>Mike Morgan and the Crawl / Big D Shuffle</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/68895732021-09-27T10:00:00-07:002022-02-05T10:30:19-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday: A Whole Lotta Little Milton<p>This show featured <a contents="Little Milton" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Milton">Little Milton</a>: songs recorded by him plus some tunes he's known for, covered by others: including <a contents="Allman &amp; Woman" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_the_Hard_Way">Allman and Woman</a>'s "We're Gonna Make It" (!!)</p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>Floyd Cramer / Trouble In Mind </p>
<p>Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown / Cold Strings </p>
<p>Billy Byrd / Teen Age Blues </p>
<p>Lowell Fulson / Pico </p>
<p>Bo Diddley / Crackin' Up </p>
<p>Little Milton / Lookin' For My Baby </p>
<p>Little Milton / Who's Cheating Who? </p>
<p>Little Milton / Grits Ain't Groceries </p>
<p>Little Milton / A Possum In My Tree </p>
<p>Little Milton w/ Lucinda Williams / Love Hurts </p>
<p>Little Milton / The Blues Is Alright </p>
<p>Allman and Woman / We're Gonna Make It </p>
<p>Little Willie John / All Around the World </p>
<p>Elvis Presley / I Feel so Bad </p>
<p>Roy Milton / Milton's Boogie </p>
<p>Bob Dylan / Goodbye Jimmy Reed </p>
<p>Mark Hummel (feat. Brownie McGhee) / Walk On </p>
<p>Mike Zito / Dreaming Of You </p>
<p>Nora Jean Wallace / Victim </p>
<p>Ruthie Foster / Woke up This Morning (Live) </p>
<p>Denise LaSalle / Mississippi Woman (Delta Blues Mix) </p>
<p>Etta James / Don't Start Me To Talking </p>
<p>Bettye LaVette / Drinking Again </p>
<p>Lou Rawls / Please Send Me Someone to Love </p>
<p>Maria Muldaur / Without A Friend Like You </p>
<p>Bernice Edwards / Long Tall Mama </p>
<p>Hazel Scott / Nightmare Blues </p>
<p>Bessie Smith / Down Hearted Blues </p>
<p>Jessie Mae Hemphill / Streamline Train </p>
<p>The Big Three Trio / Big 3 Stomp</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/68895752021-09-06T10:00:00-07:002022-02-05T10:39:30-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday: Featuring Sunnyland Slim<p>Some tunes from Sunnyland Slim (born 9/5/1906 in Vance, MS) in this show: </p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues on Purpose </p>
<p>Duke Robillard / Rock Alley </p>
<p>Bill Black's Combo / Ole Buttermilk Sky </p>
<p>Little Brother Montgomery / After Hours Blues </p>
<p>Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets featuring Sam Meyers / Chill Out </p>
<p>The Legendary Blues Band / Blues For Big Nate </p>
<p>Valerie Wellington / Cold, Cold Feeling </p>
<p>Smiley Lewis / Down The Road </p>
<p>Julia Lee / (Opportunity Knocks but Once) Snatch and Grab It </p>
<p>Memphis Minnie / Black Cat Blues </p>
<p>Victoria Spivey / I Had It </p>
<p>Brenda Lee / Walking to New Orleans (Remastered) </p>
<p>Nina Simone / Gin House Blues </p>
<p>Leroy Carr / Rocks In My Bed </p>
<p>Frank Hutchison / Cannon Ball Blues </p>
<p>Shirley Brown / I'm Gonna Stop You From Giving Me The Blues </p>
<p>Sunnyland Slim / When I Was Young </p>
<p>Sunnyland Slim / Bessie Mae </p>
<p>Sunnyland Slim / Sunnyland Train </p>
<p>Rodd Bland, The Members Only Band / Up and Down World - Live </p>
<p>Veronica Lewis / Is You is My Baby </p>
<p>Evelyn Rubio / He Did Me Wrong But Did It Right </p>
<p>Koko Taylor / I'm a Woman </p>
<p>Rory Block / It's Red Hot </p>
<p>The Fabulous Thunderbirds / Emergency </p>
<p>Linsey Alexander / Have You Ever Loved A Woman (Live) </p>
<p>Bobby Bland / Members Only </p>
<p>Sonny Boy Williamson / Cat Hop</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/68895892021-08-02T10:00:00-07:002022-02-05T10:46:33-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday featuring Buddy Guy<p>Some songs from featured artist: <a contents="Buddy Guy" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Guy">Buddy Guy</a></p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>Jody Williams / Hide Out </p>
<p>Little Walter / Rocker </p>
<p>Billy Boy Arnold / Three Harp Boogie </p>
<p>Anson Funderburgh / Mudslide </p>
<p>Ronnie Wood with His Wild Five / Blue Feeling (Live) </p>
<p>Buddy Guy / First Time I Met The Blues </p>
<p>Buddy Guy / Snatch It Back and Hold It </p>
<p>Buddy Guy / T-Bone Shuffle </p>
<p>Buddy Guy / Early in the Morning </p>
<p>Buddy Guy / Somebody Up There </p>
<p>William Clarke / Chromatic Jump </p>
<p>Robert Cray Band / You're the One </p>
<p>Kim Wilson / Strange Things Happening </p>
<p>Sonny Boy Williamson / Boppin' With Sonny </p>
<p>Catfish Keith / Move to Louisiana </p>
<p>Rory Block / Milk Man Blues </p>
<p>Memphis Minnie / Broken Heart </p>
<p>Bessie Smith / Down Hearted Blues </p>
<p>Willie Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel, Elizabeth McQueen / I'm Sittin' on Top of the World </p>
<p>Etta James / Tomorrow Night </p>
<p>Dinah Washington / Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning </p>
<p>Trudy Lynn / Just A Little Bit </p>
<p>Doris Allen / The Shell of a Woman </p>
<p>Marcia Ball / Let Me Play with Your Poodle </p>
<p>Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets / Love Me With a Feeling </p>
<p>LaVern Baker / Jim Dandy </p>
<p>Tiny Bradshaw / The Train Kept A-Rollin' </p>
<p>Bobby Bland / Just You, Just Me </p>
<p>Howlin' Wolf / California Boogie </p>
<p>B.B. King / Easy Listening Blues</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/68895902021-06-07T11:00:00-07:002022-02-05T10:52:57-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday playlist for June 7 2021<p>A good mix of songs in this one:</p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>The Legendary Blues Band / Blues For Big Nate </p>
<p>Jimmie Vaughan / Hold It </p>
<p>Little Milton / Meddlin' </p>
<p>Jimmy Johnson / Better When It's Wet </p>
<p>The Confiners / Harmonica Boogie </p>
<p>Kim Wilson / Strollin' </p>
<p>Shemekia Copeland / Uncivil War </p>
<p>Bobby Rush / Down in Mississippi </p>
<p>Ruthie Foster / The Ghetto (Live) </p>
<p>Rory Block / In My Girlish Days </p>
<p>Asleep At The Wheel / Better Times </p>
<p>Ray Charles / You Are My Sunshine </p>
<p>Tina Turner / Shake a Hand </p>
<p>Lowell Fulson / I Feel So Bad </p>
<p>Eddie Boyd / Twenty-Four Hours </p>
<p>Bettye LaVette / Drinking Again </p>
<p>Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite/Elvin Bishop/Charlie Mussewhite / Help Me </p>
<p>Rick Estrin & The Nightcats / The Main Event </p>
<p>Robert Cray Band / Anything You Want </p>
<p>Alex Chilton & Hi Rhythm Section / Big Boss Man </p>
<p>Chuck Willis / Whatcha Gonna Do (When Your Baby Leaves You) </p>
<p>JB Hutto / Slidewinder </p>
<p>Barbara Carr / Good Woman Go Bad </p>
<p>Sonny Boy Williamson & The Animals / I Don't Care No More </p>
<p>B.B. King / Don't Answer the Door </p>
<p>Bobby "Blue" Bland / It's All In the Game </p>
<p>Louis Myers / Top Of The Harp </p>
<p>Weaver & Beasley / St. Louis Blues</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/68895912021-05-10T11:00:00-07:002022-02-05T10:59:10-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist: Springtime for Blues<p>Playlist:</p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>Otis Spann / Otis in the Dark </p>
<p>Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith and His Crackerjacks / Pickin’ the Blues </p>
<p>Duke Robillard / Rock Alley </p>
<p>Jimmy Smith / Blues In The Night </p>
<p>Rory Block / In My Girlish Days </p>
<p>New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers feat. Charlie Musselwhite / Blues For Yesterday </p>
<p>Ruthie Foster / Might Not Be Right (Live) </p>
<p>Liz Mandeville;Philippe Fernandez;Gilles Gabbisson / How Many Times (Do You Get to Break My Heart) [feat. Philippe Fernandez & Gilles Gabbisson] </p>
<p>Ella Fitzgerald / Wee Baby Blues </p>
<p>Billy Vera & Judy Clay / We're In Love </p>
<p>Willie Dixon / Back Door Man (Album Version) </p>
<p>Roomful of Blues / Too Much Boogie </p>
<p>Bettye LaVette / Piece of My Heart </p>
<p>Mitty Collier / I Had a Talk With My Man </p>
<p>O.V. Wright / Gonna Forget About You </p>
<p>Brook Benton / Baby (You've Got What It Takes) </p>
<p>Ray Charles / You Are My Sunshine </p>
<p>Arthur Alexander / Black Night </p>
<p>Nellie Lutcher / Lake Charles Boogie </p>
<p>Lightnin' Hopkins / Got Me A Louisiana Woman </p>
<p>Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble / Say What! </p>
<p>Lyle Lovett & Al Green / Funny How Time Slips Away </p>
<p>Tami Lynn / One More Night Of Sin </p>
<p>Dorothy Moore / Misty Blue </p>
<p>Roy Brown / Let the Four Winds Blow </p>
<p>Little Walter / Hate To See You Go </p>
<p>Bo Diddley / You Don´t Love Me </p>
<p>Howlin' Wolf / Sitting On Top of the World </p>
<p>Booker T & the MGs / Slim Jenkin's Place </p>
<p>Little Charlie & the Nightcats / Gerontology </p>
<p>Jimmy Reed / Bright Lights, Big City</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/69025452021-05-03T10:00:00-07:002022-05-10T09:20:42-07:00WFHB's Blue Monday playlist: May in Bloomington!<p> </p>
<p>Playlist: </p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>Kim Wilson / If It Ain't Me </p>
<p>Steve Cropper / Bush Hog </p>
<p>Jimmy Johnson / Better When It's Wet </p>
<p>Jerry "Boogie" McCain / Steady (Fifties Classic) </p>
<p>Robert Cray Band / Anything You Want </p>
<p>Jimmy Smith / I Got My Mojo Workin' </p>
<p>Dave Bartholomew / The Monkey </p>
<p>Elvis Presley / Too Much Monkey Business </p>
<p>Ann Peebles / I Can't Stand the Rain </p>
<p>Ruth Brown / Hello Little Boy </p>
<p>Bettye LaVette / Romance In The Dark </p>
<p>Jessie Mae Hemphill / Go Back to Your Used to Be </p>
<p>Nora Jean Wallace / I've Been Watching You </p>
<p>Evelyn Rubio / One More Last Time </p>
<p>The Big Three Trio / Big 3 Stomp </p>
<p>Bob Dylan / Goodbye Jimmy Reed </p>
<p>Gregg Allman / Blind Man </p>
<p>Bonnie Raitt / Finest Lovin' Man [Edit] </p>
<p>Memphis Minnie / Me And My Chauffeur </p>
<p>Buddy Johnson/Ella Johnson / That's How I Feel About You </p>
<p>Bobby Bland / (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right (Album Version) </p>
<p>Z.Z. Hill / You're Ruining My Bad Reputation </p>
<p>Little Milton / Annie Mae's Cafe </p>
<p>Bobby Rush / Garbage Man </p>
<p>Bobby "Blue" Bland / Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone </p>
<p>Willie Dixon / O.C. Bounce </p>
<p>Freddy King / Wash Out </p>
<p>Little Walter / Thunderbird </p>
<p>Duke Robillard / Rock Alley </p>
<p>Albert King / Crosscut Saw </p>
<p>Rick Estrin & The Nightcats / Bo Dee's Bounce </p>
<p>B.B. King / Rambler</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/69025532021-04-12T10:00:00-07:002022-02-20T10:16:10-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday Playlist<p>Playlist: </p>
<p>Artist / Song </p>
<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>Jimmy And Walter / EASY </p>
<p>Little Walter / Flying Saucer </p>
<p>Chuck Berry / Guitar Boogie </p>
<p>John Davis / Davis Boogie - John Davis </p>
<p>Louis Myers / Top Of The Harp </p>
<p>Tampa Red / Texas Stomp </p>
<p>Jimmy Reed / St Louis Blues </p>
<p>Denise LaSalle / It's Lying Time Again </p>
<p>Keith Richards / My Babe </p>
<p>Koko Taylor / I Cried Like a Baby </p>
<p>Lynn White / Anyway the Wind Blows </p>
<p>Sarah Vaughan / The Other Woman </p>
<p>Lil Johnson / My Stove's In Good Condition </p>
<p>Leroy Carr / Rocks In My Bed </p>
<p>Johnny Burgin / Cherry on Top </p>
<p>John Campbell / Judgement Day </p>
<p>Joyann Parker / Gone So Long </p>
<p>Malaya Blue / Why is Peace so Hard </p>
<p>Nora Jean Wallace / Look over Yonder </p>
<p>B. B. King / Night Life </p>
<p>New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers feat. Jimbo Mathus / Searchlight </p>
<p>Selwyn Birchwood / One More Time </p>
<p>Curtis Salgado / I Don't Do That No More </p>
<p>The Fabulous Thunderbirds / Emergency </p>
<p>Bobby Bland / Two Steps From The Blues </p>
<p>Z.Z. Hill / Down Home Blues </p>
<p>Willie Mitchell / Buster Brown </p>
<p>Ann Peebles / I Can't Stand the Rain </p>
<p>Syl Johnson / Steppin' Out </p>
<p>John Lee Hooker / Boom Boom</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/69025542021-03-01T10:35:00-08:002022-02-20T10:23:20-08:00WFHB's Blue Monday playlist -- Marching into March<p>Nina Simone / Blues On Purpose </p>
<p>Otis Spann / Otis in the Dark </p>
<p>Jody Williams / Hide Out </p>
<p>Freddy King / Wash Out </p>
<p>Walter Horton / Easy </p>
<p>Johnny Burgin / Cherry on Top </p>
<p>Joyann Parker / Gone so Long </p>
<p>Malaya Blue / Why is Peace so Hard </p>
<p>Nora Jean Wallace / Look over Yonder </p>
<p>Elmore James / Look On Yonder Wall </p>
<p>B.B. King / Caldonia </p>
<p>George Thorogood & The Destroyers / Willie and the Hand Jive </p>
<p>Eric Clapton / Blow Wind Blow </p>
<p>Dinah Washington / Short John </p>
<p>Howlin' Wolf / Down In the Bottom </p>
<p>Sir Rod & the Blues Doctors / Sanctified Blues </p>
<p>Little Milton / Cheatin' Is A Risky Business </p>
<p>Ruth Brown / Hello Little Boy </p>
<p>Bobby "Blue" Bland / Take Off Your Shoes </p>
<p>New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers feat. Jimbo Mathus / Searchlight </p>
<p>Selwyn Birchwood / One More Time </p>
<p>Curtis Salgado / I Don't Do That No More </p>
<p>Sugar Ray and the Bluetones / Walk Me Home </p>
<p>Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith and His Crackerjacks / Guitar Boogie </p>
<p>Larry Williams / Slow Down </p>
<p>Chuck Berry / St. Louis Blues </p>
<p>Roy Milton & His Solid Senders / Hop, Skip and Jump </p>
<p>Bettye LaVette / Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go </p>
<p>Otis Redding / Lucille </p>
<p>Hank Ballard / Work With Me, Annie </p>
<p>Sonny Boy Williamson / Cat Hop</p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/61123772019-11-22T16:00:00-08:002023-01-03T07:10:47-08:00Famous Pakistani Truck Painter Haider Ali painted one of my guitars<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>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 data-imported="1" href="https://youtu.be/WPkw42L97Aw">https://youtu.be/WPkw42L97Aw</a> ~18 minutes -- More links below.)</p>
<p>Before the interview, I played two brief audio clips from the film. In the first segment, Paul talks about how he got started playing guitar: <a data-imported="1" href="/files/691064/somethin-gotta-clip1-paul.mp3">Somethin' Gotta Be Arranged Clip1 </a> (40 seconds). In the second segment, we hear Paul talking to <a data-imported="1" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_John_Davis">Blind John Davis</a> who discusses whether or not white people can have the blues, plus we get to here them play together: <a data-imported="1" href="/files/691065/somethin-gotta-clip2-paul-john.mp3">Somethin' Gotta Be Arranged Clip 2</a>. (68 seconds).</p>
<p>Here is the broadcast interview with Geoff: <a data-imported="1" href="/files/691066/geoff-adams-interview-broadcast.mp3">Geoff Adams Broadcast Interview</a> (~19 minutes). For more background on Geoff's career, his music-making, and the Rhode Island music scene of the 1980s and early 1990s, listen to this lightly-edited extended version: <a data-imported="1" href="/files/691067/geoff-adams-interview-extended.mp3">Geoff Adams Extended Interview </a> (~38 minutes).</p>
<p>Also, as part of the broadcast, I played a couple Paul Geremia songs, tunes by <a data-imported="1" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_I">John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson</a> and <a data-imported="1" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Minnie">Memphis Minnie</a> that feature Blind John Davis on piano, a kickin' Davis boogie-woogie instrumental, and a piece by New Orleans drummer <a data-imported="1" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Powell">Shannon Powell</a>, whom Geoff mentions near the end of the interview: </p>
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<p> </p>Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/61123752018-05-31T17:00:00-07:002018-06-06T03:50:23-07:00One Blues Indivisible, Invisible Man, and Invisible Theology
<p><a href="http://indiana.edu/~relstud/people/profiles/harriss_cooper" data-imported="1">M Cooper Harriss</a> and I often have great discussions about the intersections of race and literature and music. 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" data-imported="1">WFHB’s </a> 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, <a href="https://nyupress.org/books/9781479823017/" data-imported="1"><em><strong>Ralph Ellison's Invisible Theology</strong></em> </a> (NYU Press), about the classic 1952 novel, <em>Invisible Man.</em> </p>
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<p>Cooper's book is about a lot of things -- the novel, Ellison’s life, and beyond -- but I particularly wanted to talk about the blues language and even blues theology that pervade both the novel and Cooper's book. If you're like me, exploring this connection between music and theology might mean you never think about either the same way again.</p>
<p>Doug Storm, producer of WFHB’s arts and ideas show, <em>Interchange</em>, graciously offered that show as the forum for our Invisible discussion with yours truly as guest host. (Doug previously edited our <a href="http://wfhb.org/news/interchange-zora-neale-hurston-and-the-blues/" data-imported="1">Hurston Blue Monday show</a> into an <em>Interchange</em> episode as well.) The full interview aired May 29, 2018, and <a href="http://wfhb.org/news/interchange-one-blues-invisible-ralph-ellisons-pledge/" data-imported="1">the archive edition can be heard here</a>. Listen and enjoy!</p>
<p>The night before the <em>Interchange</em> show, I previewed some of the songs and themes on Blue Monday: </p>
<p>(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue/Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) / This recording is central to the prologue of Invisible Man / July 22, 1929</p>
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<p> John the Revelator / Son House/ (March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988) / Echoes Ellison’s Revelation motifs/1965</p>
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<p>Royal Garden Blues/Benny Goodman Sextet (featuring Charlie Christian [July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942] on guitar)/ Christian and Ellison both attended Douglass High School in Oklahoma City; Christian was three years younger / November 7, 1940</p>
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<p>Jaybird Blues/Peetie Wheatstraw (December 21, 1902 – December 21, 1941)/ St. Louis bluesman mentioned by name in Ellison’s Invisible Man / April 4, 1940</p>
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<p>Gone to Main Street/Muddy Waters (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983)/“Father of Modern Chicago Blues,” contemporary of Ellison / September 17, 1952 (same year as Invisible Man)</p>
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Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/61123742018-04-03T17:00:00-07:002020-01-16T10:21:27-08:00I'm Just Going Down the Road to See Bessie Smith
<p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith" data-imported="1">Bessie Smith</a></strong> was the featured artist on my March 2, 2018, Blue Monday radio show on WFHB. 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. </p>
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<p>After Mamie Smith’s (no relation) <strong><a href="https://youtu.be/qaz4Ziw_CfQ" data-imported="1">Crazy Blues </a></strong> 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" data-imported="1">Rainey </a>(“The Mother of the Blues”) but her amazing protégé, Bessie Smith (“The Empress of the Blues”). Bessie would record over 160 songs for Columbia records and they sold well. She toured the US using her Philadelphia as her home base. Bessie Smith was the highest paid black entertainer of the 1920s.</p>
<p>It is difficult to overstate her influence. As I see it, that profound influence went two directions: first, she created the basis of female vocal jazz. You can hear echoes of her vocal style immediately in Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald. Further, the very ideal format -- the template -- of female vocal jazz is the instrumentation on the best Bessie Smith records: piano, bass, and an active horn or two. The second branch of her influence is the lyrical themes which had a profound influence on the “country blues” singers of the 1930s. As one illustrative example, Mississippi guitarist-singer <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_McMullan" data-imported="1">Hayes McMullen</a></strong>, who lived in the Delta from 1902 to 1986 and played with <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Patton" data-imported="1">Charlie Patton</a></strong>, recalled to researcher Gayle Dean Wardlow that he adapted Smith’s hit songs to his own openly-tuned acoustic guitar style. (Hayes makes an appearance in my own meditation on Tallahatchie County, “<a href="https://youtu.be/zwBQQ2x0pqo" data-imported="1"><strong>Most of All</strong>.</a>”)</p>
<p>Songs by Bessie Smith like “<strong><a href="https://youtu.be/4gXShOJVwaM" data-imported="1">Back Water Blues</a></strong>” and “<strong><a href="https://youtu.be/go6TiLIeVZA" data-imported="1">Downhearted Blues</a></strong>” tell stories of devastation both environmental and romantic. Some lyrical passages, like this one from “Downhearted Blues,” have shown up in multiple variations for the past 80 years:</p>
<p align="center">I ain't never loved but three men in my life</p>
<p align="center">My Father, my brother and the man that wrecked my life</p>
<p>One of my favorite takes on this one, perhaps more playful than Bessie’s original, is in Chicago bluesman Jimmy Rogers’s 1950 “<strong><a href="https://youtu.be/cCBQxtGEgiU" data-imported="1">Going Away</a></strong>”:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> I ain't never loved but four womens in my life</p>
<p align="center">My mother, my sister, my sweetheart and my wife</p>
<p>The Depression hit the record industry and Bessie’s career hard. The bookings and recordings trailed off and she was released from Columbia. When the industry came back, the blues trend was away from female singers with jazzy horns and toward male singers, often accompanying themselves on guitar or solo piano. </p>
<p>By the mid-1930s, these new blues singers had made compositional adjustments to the form. Many of Bessie’s compositions begin with an 8- or 16-or 20-measure “verse” to introduce the song, then go to the the “chorus”, the repeated, now-familiar, 12-bar form. But the new singers dispensed with the sometimes more harmonically complicated verse and mostly sang and composed using the 12-bar format. </p>
<p>(Most songs of the Great American Songbook era retained this introductory-non-repeated-verse-to-familiar-chorus structure. Listen to Hoagy’s “Stardust”, especially <strong><a href="https://youtu.be/2z-nzIUcVAA" data-imported="1">Sinatra’s version</a></strong> where he, perversely, only sings the verse -- thanks to Donald Gray for sending this my way many years ago!)</p>
<p>Queen Latifah starred in a very <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3704352/" data-imported="1">entertaining Bessie 2015 biopic</a></strong> directed by <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2011696/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" data-imported="1">Dee Rees</a></strong>. The musical pieces and soundtrack are very entertaining and Latifah’s performance is generous and wonderful. (Fortunately and tastefully, the faithful film did not depict Bessie’s horrific 1937 death in a car accident in the Delta.)</p>
<p>In the late 1960s, The Band, with Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko on vocals, recorded a lovely piece called “Bessie Smith” that seems inspired by her and I included it in my radio show along with<strong> <a href="https://spinitron.com/member/showplaylist.php?plid=35303" data-imported="1">these songs (via Spinitron</a>)</strong>. <strong><a href="https://youtu.be/fBuZBW4ys_Q" data-imported="1">Norah Jones has a nice cover</a></strong> of this song, too.</p>
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<p>My singing partner <strong><a href="http://jasonandginger.com/" data-imported="1">Ginger Curry and I</a> </strong>have performed some of Bessie Smith’s better known songs including “Ain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness if I Do”, “Young Woman Blues,” and “Me and My Gin”. Our version of “Put Some Sugar in my Bowl” is based on Nina Simone’s cover and is more PG-13 than Bessie’s nearly-R-rated original. And our<strong> <a href="https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/jasonandginger" data-imported="1">celebration of the women of the blues CD has her “A Good Man is Hard to Find”</a></strong> as its title track. Ginger is an amazing vocalist and her singing on the Bessie songs is nothing short of thrilling.</p>
<p>Here’s some more Bessie Smith tunes:</p>
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Jason Fickeltag:jasonfickel.com,2005:Post/61123732018-02-24T16:00:00-08:002020-01-16T10:21:26-08:00Jimmy Reed and the Casa Linda Lowlife
<p>The featured artist for my <a href="http://wfhb.org/" data-imported="1">WFHB</a> Blue Monday DJ slot on Monday, February, 12, 2018, was <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Reed" data-imported="1">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&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 time) by major artists of the day including Elvis Presley, <a href="https://youtu.be/86X8Ema4908" data-imported="1">Charlie Rich</a>, the <a href="https://youtu.be/d76i_YXd00Q" data-imported="1">Rolling Stones</a>, the <a href="https://youtu.be/cqhemmeAZAA" data-imported="1">Grateful Dead</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/WSDVY7IDGrE" data-imported="1">Bill Cosby</a>, and <a href="https://youtu.be/gNjdBm_aypc" data-imported="1">Etta James</a>. As you'll hear in the interview, Jimmy Reed had a big influence on the <a href="https://youtu.be/edqoIBO1qvM" data-imported="1">Lone Star State</a>.</p>
<p>I feel a personal connection to Jimmy Reed and his music: he grew up just down the road in Washington County, Mississippi, from my own teacher, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thomas_(blues_musician)" data-imported="1">James “Son” Thomas</a>. Son knew him and taught me several of his songs.</p>
<p>My passion about Jimmy Reed's music was re-ignited last year when Hap Channell, a family friend in my hometown of Gunnison, Colorado, mentioned almost in passing that as a Dallas teenager he danced to Jimmy Reed, and – get this -- also remembers Reed making an appearance at his teen dance club! Wow! I had to follow up, so I arranged a time and recorded an interview this winter with Hap in the dining room of his historic home in Gunnison.</p>
<p>Here is my interview with Hap Channell in which he describes being a 1950s teenager in the Casa Linda area of Northeast Dallas and doing a dance called the Low Life. This is taken from the airing of the live radio show, WFHB’s Blue Monday: </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="/files/691062/edit-hap-interview-on-air.mp3" data-imported="1">Jimmy Reed - Hap Channell and the Casa Linda Lowlife (MP3)</a> (25 minutes)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(See below for full playlist and entire interview)</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The scene that Hap Channell describes is woefully under-documented. I came across a blog entry by <em><a href="http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=kajr82idfl0unvrl3vqbgfgf26&topic=118761.msg1248487#msg1248487" data-imported="1">jimdgoulding</a></em><a href="http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=kajr82idfl0unvrl3vqbgfgf26&topic=118761.msg1248487#msg1248487" data-imported="1"> in 2013</a> : </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jimmy Reed probably sold the most of his records to us. We had dances that could only be done to the blues. The North Texas Push and the Casa Linda Low Life were teenage art forms done to the blues. I used to attend blues reviews at the Dallas Sportatorium. Ten groups for $3.00. ... Man, me, and my friends, loved the blues.</em></p>
<p>The Teen Timers Dance Club makes an appearance in a 2008 mystery novel by Mary Elizabeth Goldman, <strong>To Love and Die in Dallas:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Sequestered behind the shopper’s cloister but still part of the complex were a few professional offices: the optometrist center, the barbershop, and the second most popular establishment in all of White Rock -- Teen Timers. Home of the original dirty dancing, the birthplace of the Casa Linda Low Life, Teen Timers was so full of smoke, noise, and packed bodies, that we could barely see, hear or breathe. Amateur bands imitating Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Reed and Buddy Holly played nonstop for the dancers and listeners alike. It was a blissful sanctuary where rumors not only circulated wildly but originated right there in the girls' room. In short, Teen Timers was a dimly lit haven with parental blessing. </em></p>
<p>For wonderful background on the intersections of dance, music, technology, and race in mid-century USA (though it doesn't mention the Casa Linda Low Life), check out Tim Wall’s chapter, “'<strong>Rocking Around the Clock', Teenage Dance Fads from 1955 to 1965"</strong> in <a href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/48sxr3de9780252033636.html" data-imported="1">Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake : A Social and Popular Dance Reader</a>, edited by Julie Malnig (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009). </p>
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<p>You can find <a href="https://spinitron.com/member/showplaylist.php?plid=34954" data-imported="1">all the songs I played on the February 12 show </a> (via Spinitron). </p>
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<p>Here is the <a href="/files/691063/full-hap-interview.mp3" data-imported="1">entire unedited conversation/interview with Hap Channell </a>(MP3)(recorded December 27, 2017, Gunnison, CO.)</p>
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<p>After my interview with Hap, I played some Jimmy Reed songs, including these: </p>
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