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The Roadhouse 061

15 April 2006 4 Comments

This edition ends a week of big events in The Roadhouse. Between a tornado on Thursday and day five of life without cigarettes, it’s a good time to hide away from the world and get lost in an hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard. Gene Hardy, Back Alley Blues Band, Bobby Parker, Blind Slim, and Diego Garcia take the independent lead. I’ve also got a Roadhouse Rewound segment in the queue that’s 100% listener-requested. All in all, we’re 14 cuts deep this week – pushing right on past an hour. It’s the 61st Roadhouse Podcast – the finest blues you’ve never heard.


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The Roadhouse Podcast 061 Show Notes

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[00:35] Memphis Gold – “Crabcakes”
From the Memphis Gold Productions CD “Prodigal Son”

[04:39] Intro

[06:34] Percy Strother – “Keep What You Got”
From the Black and Tan CD “Home At Last”
[Amazon]

[09:53] Gene Hardy -”Down In Dallas”
From the indie CD “Blow! Blow! Blow!”
[Amazon]

[13:04] Jim Taft – “Purgatory Road”
From the Podsafe Music Network

[16:14] Break 1

[17:51] Back Alley Blues Band – “Chihuahua Blues”
From their CD “Boxcar Tourists”

[20:29] Johnny Max Band – “Brown’s Line”
From the Pour Soul Records CD “Ride and Roll”

[23:51] Bobby Parker – “Fast Train”
From the Blues Night Records CD “Bent Out Of Shape”
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[28:08] Break 2

[29:15] Doug MacLeod – “Ain’t No Cure”
From the Black and Tan CD “Where I Been”
[Amazon]

[32:03] Eric Lindell – “Lazy Days”
From the Alligator CD “Change In The Weather”
[Amazon]

[33:45] Break 3

Roadhouse Rewound

[34:32] Blind Slim – “Have Mercy”

[39:14] Janiva Magness – “Eat The Lunch You Brought”
From the NorthernBlues CD “Bury Him At The Crossroads”
[Amazon]

[44:38] Break 4

Outsider Radio Promo

[47:31] Katie Webster – “I Wonder”
From the Alligator CD “35×35”
[Amazon]

[51:31] Diego Garcia – “Blues For Danny”

[56:26] Closing

[60:19] Alvin Jett and the Phat Noiz Blues Band – “Bluesman”
From the Phat Noiz Entertainment CD “Wet My Beak”

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4 Comments »

  • Sanjoy said:

    Hi Tony,
    I have been listening to the roadhouse podcast from around episode #40 onwards. As a blues fan based in Delhi, India, where it is hard to come by live blues performances, let me tell you it is something I look forward to ardently. Your show is a weekly fix I can’t do without!
    A few years back, while visiting New Orleans (on one of my very infrequent trips to the US), I heard an incredible guitarist and bluesman, Bryan Lee, who played nightly at the 544 Club on Bourbon St. I think his record label is Justin Time or something. Have you heard him? I have managed to buy four of his CDs including an amazing live performance at the Old Absinthe House, where Kenny Wayne Shepherd joins him on a few tracks.
    Keep up the great work!
    Cheers

    - 16 April 2006 at 1:54 am
  • Mark Herbst said:

    Dude, congrats on kicking the habit. I quit for the 10th time about 3 years ago. Things that helped me: carrot and celery sticks, very strong peppermints, taking deep breaths when I wanted a smoke, excercise (tennis), herbal cigarettes (great in a blues bar when everyone else was smoking during my first week off the tobacco), and, of course, the memory of coughing my lungs out in bed every night when I had bronchitis. Good luck!

    - 18 April 2006 at 9:19 am
  • Dave J. said:

    Wow, its like you were reading my mind with that Rewound segment. Obviously your listeners must be of the same mind if those were both requested.

    I’ll never sing like Janiva, but I dream to play the harp like that Blind Slim track. Its not full of tricks, but man it moves so.

    - 18 April 2006 at 10:24 am
  • Phil Honley said:

    Love the show but have to respond following comments made in show 61 I believe suggesting that Gary Moore was a surprise support for the B.B. King Farewell gigs in the U.K. Sure Gary Moore early career saw him play rock guitar in bands such as Skid Row and more famously Thin Lizzy. However, I would not be alone if I was to be so bold and suggest that Gary is and has been for a number of years by far the best blues guitarist in Europe and I can think of no better exponents of such fine fluid blues guitaring in the world today. Do yourself a great favour and chack out “Still Got The Blues” or anything that he has recorded over the past 15 years. This is no critisism but please check him out. Keep up the good work.

    - 24 May 2006 at 3:59 pm