The 429th Roadhouse rewinds a great summer opener from 2010: Roadhouse 275. Mississippi Heat, Anders Osborne, Robert Belfour, Seth Walker, and Gina Sicilia take on the spirit of sunshine and great weather, propelling us through a summer hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Enjoy the rewind while I run the Cleveland Marathon. I’ll [...]
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Gregg Allman performs “Melissa” with Dave Matthews Band and Warren Haynes at Farm Aid, 2007.

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The 429th Roadhouse rewinds a great summer opener from 2010: Roadhouse 275. Mississippi Heat, Anders Osborne, Robert Belfour, Seth Walker, and Gina Sicilia take on the spirit of sunshine and great weather, propelling us through a summer hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Enjoy the rewind while I run the Cleveland Marathon. I’ll be back next week with a new edition for the 430th Roadhouse.

It’s a special edition of The Roadhouse, featuring winners from the 2013 Blues Music Awards. I managed to get most of the major categories into the hour ahead and include such great artists as Michael Burks, Tab Benoit, Janiva Magness, The Mannish Boys, and Ruthie Foster. The 428th Roadhouse is one edition where I break a bit from the tagline – “the finest blues you’ve never heard” – to bring you just the finest blues, period, from the previous year.
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This edition of The Roadhouse features live music from Magic Sam, Minneapolis native Sena Ehrhardt, Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa, Albert King, & new music from Robben Ford. A little jazz, a little blues, a lot of female vocalists, and another hour, certainly, of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 427th Roadhouse.
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This edition of The Roadhouse is is tight and well-balanced. Is it the perfect mix of blues? You decide. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, Ana Popovic, The James Hunter Six, Shemekia Copeland, and Robert Cray Band fill the hour. Perfect mix or not, The 426th Roadhouse is definitely a mix of the finest blues you’ve never heard.
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The 425th Roadhouse provides a little shelter at the end of a tough week. Ana Popovic, Bobby Rush, Otis Taylor, Doug MacLeod, and The California Honeydrops lead us on a road away from trouble and toil and straight into the pick-me-up that is the blues. The 425th Roadhouse is a blues getaway and another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard.
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The 424th Roadhouse issues a dance alert, with tracks that will compel you to move around. Whether that’s in your chair, or hand-in-hand with a significant other, or even just in a room by yourself, you’ll feel an overwhelming need to move. The Blasters, Reverend Freakchild, The Duke Robillard Band, Voodoo Swing, and Bart Walker will definitely fuel that compulsion. And, of course, you know they provide a strong foundation for another hour, another week of the finest blues you’ve never heard.
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The 423rd Roadhouse rewinds a fun edition from 2011. Lurrie Bell, Billy Boy Arnold, Hamilton Loomis, Ben Prestage, and Carolina Chocolate Drops help fill out the hour. There’s a chunk of urban, a chunk of youth, a chunk of acoustic, and it’s all up to you to make the connections – that is, of course, beyond being another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. I’ll be back next week with a new edition of The Roadhouse.
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