The finest blues you’ve never heard.
I’m warming up for a full weekend of blues at the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival over the July 4th weekend. Many of the artists in this edition of The Roadhouse will take the stage in Davenport next weekend as I feed real-time reports and pictures to Roadhouse listeners. Junior Watson, Matt Schofield, Duke Robillard, Magic [...]
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Rod and Honey Piazza talk about their musical backgrounds and the formation of The Mighty Flyers.
The late great Koko Taylor.
In honor of the birthday of Howlin’ Wolf.
Freddie King tears up his classic “Hideaway” from an unknown television appearance.
“Red beans and rice bowl, please.”
“Mild or spicy?”
“Spicy, please. Is it deadly spicy?”
“No, sir. I don’t kill no one. They got time to drag you down to the river if it’s too hot.”
Blues food, indeed.
I’ve posted the raw audio for the interviews with Bo Ramsey and Roy Rogers. These will be edited later and included in The Roadhouse. Bear in mind – this is absolutely unedited. Interruptions, background noises, stutters and stammers – it’s all there. But there’s good stuff buried beneath.
Throughout the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival (7/2 – 7/4), I’ll be posting regularly here on the site. I’ll also be posting real-time updates to Twitter and pictures to Flickr. Daily updates, show summaries and raw interview audio will be posted here.
Touch base regularly to follow live blues.
I’m warming up for a full weekend of blues at the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival over the July 4th weekend. Many of the artists in this edition of The Roadhouse will take the stage in Davenport next weekend as I feed real-time reports and pictures to Roadhouse listeners. Junior Watson, Matt Schofield, Duke Robillard, Magic Slim, and Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women make for a short festival in this edition. But, it’s no less an hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 228th Roadhouse.
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It’s officially summer in the northern hemisphere. The days are as long as they’ll be all year, the temperature’s rising and blues festivals are popping up all over the country like popcorn. Accordingly, the 227th Roadhouse has a decidedly summerlike feel. Candye Kane, Byther Smith, James Wheeler, Homemade Jamz Blues Band, and Jenni Muldaur deliver on the promise I make each and every week, season and season out: another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard.
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The waitresses and the bartender are working hard in this edition of The Roadhouse. The place is packed with patrons dressed to the nines, cutting loose on Saturday night before church on Sunday morning. Homemade Jamz Blues Band, Louisiana Red, Candye Kane, Zac Harmon, and The Mannish Boys lead the way for another hour of new music in The Roadhouse. It’s the finest blues you’ve never heard – the 226th Roadhouse.
Read the full story »Rod and Honey Piazza talk about their musical backgrounds and the formation of The Mighty Flyers.
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