The 378th Roadhouse is an hour of blues that’ll roll right over you. Mighty Mojo Prophets, RJ Mischo, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Otis Taylor, and Etta Britt help keep us moving. This hour will go by very quickly, I promise, if you just let it do its own thing. It’s definitely an hour of great new [...]

As we’ve done for the past several years, we’re looking to some of the winners of the Blues Music Awards held in Memphis this week. Joe Bonamassa, Samantha Fish, Charlie Musselwhite, Ruthie Foster, and Eric Bibb are but a few of the winners who light up the 377th hour of The Roadhouse. It’s an award-filled [...]

The 376th Roadhouse is filled with music from all regions of the US - North, South, East, and Midwest. Hollywood Blue Flames, Mud Morganfield, Mannish Boys, Cash Box Kings, and Pinetop Perkins will put you in a chair-dancing mood. It’s not an hour of blue blues, it’s an hour of upbeat blues, and it’s an [...]

It’s another week of The Roadhouse, and, of course, another hour of great blues surprises. With more than 80% of the tracks in the hour ahead released in the past three months, you’d be hard pressed to find fresher blues anywhere else. Geoff Achison & The Souldiggers, Curtis Salgado, Matt Woods & The Thunderbolts, Walter [...]

This edition of The Roadhouse is filled with upbeat blues, as is often the case. But there’s something about how all these pieces fit together that will make the hour pass very, very quickey. Billy Boy Arnold, Mississippi Big Beat, Rick Holmstrom, Lil’ Cliff & The Cliffhangers, and Peter Karp & Sue Foley crush the [...]

The prominent sounds in this edition of The Roadhouse are from nearly opposite ends of the blues spectrum – blues rock and jump blues. The hour features Keb Mo’, Anthony Gomes, Julian Sas, Lance Lopez, and Big Pete, along with lots of new music. It’s the 373rd hour of The Roadhouse, and the 373rd hour [...]

I’ve got a fair amount of new music in the 372nd Roadhouse, despite the fact that we seem to be in a bit of a lull week for new releases.Tail Dragger & Bob Corritore, Tab Benoit, Dr. John, Alyson “NightOwl” Shelton, and Curtis Salgado lead the way this week. We’ll range from New Orleans to [...]

In this edition of The Roadhouse, we span the blues. Jon Lord Blues Project, B.B. King, Mary Flower, Eric Bibb, and Ghost Town Blues Band work the blues from one end to the other. I’m certain you’ll hear a track or two or three that you love in an hour of the finest blues you’ve [...]

The 370th Roadhouse starts rolling at the beginning and doesn’t stop until the hour is done. Mud Morganfield, Wentus Blues Band, Larry Garner, Kipori “Baby Wolf” Woods, and Chuck Leavell dish out tracks with legs that run on forever. It’s another hour of great self-propelled blues and a veritable mudslide of the finest blues you’ve [...]

The 369th Roadhouse full of great blues with a broad mix of new and old. Debbie Bond, Heritage Blues Orchestra, George “Harmonica” Smith, Erja Lyytinen, and James Booker fill the hour admirably, helping to assure another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard.

While I normally lean toward upbeat uptempo blues for The Roadhouse, sometimes you just have to slow it down a bit. Otis Taylor, Taj Mahal, Malford Milligan Band, Duke Robillard Jazz Trio, and Carolina Chocolate Drops mix up the tempos in the 368th Roadhouse. But while we slow it down, you can still feel free [...]

In this week’s free podcast, you can win a one-year subscription to Guitar Master Class, featuring video-based music lessons, including blues guitar. The 367th Roadhouse is without an official frame. There’s such a variety that I’ve left it to you to decide how the music all fits together. Eddie C. Campbill, Janiva Magness, Big James [...]

In this week’s free podcast, you can win a one-year subscription to Guitar Master Class, featuring video-based music lessons, including blues guitar. This edition of The Roadhouse perpetuates the feeling that blues is truly good-time music. Albert Cummings, James Harman, The Sugar Prophets, Doug MacLeod, and Dion move us through the hour. One song leads [...]

Once again, in this week’s free podcast, you can find out how to win a one-year subscription to Guitar Master Class, with video-based music lessons, including blues guitar. It’s a full-on hour of guitar blues in the 365th Roadhouse. Freddie King, Mississippi John Hurt, Johnny Winter, Gary Moore, and Hound Dog Taylor show just how [...]

Listen to the free Roadhouse version to win one year of guitar instruction on GuitarMasterClass.net, with more than 2300 lessons, including blues. The final edition of the seventh year of The Roadhouse is squarely in the now. Sistah Monica Parker, D’Mar & Chris Gill, Joel DaSilva & The Midnight Howl, Levee Town, and Grady Champion [...]

The Roadhouse digs deep into the self-released blues of today’s young artists. Paxton Norris., Levve Town, Microwave Dave & The Nukes, Mary Bridget Davies Group, and Jimmy Bowskill are among the artists with a new view of blues, a new view of music technology, or both. They help make 363rd Roadhouse another satisfying hour of [...]

It’s warm in The Roadhouse Studios with snow just outside the window. And, an hour of new blues can generate plenty of heat. Trampled Under Foot. Carolyn Wonderland, Big Pete, Fleetwood Mac, and Dion help make a great case that the blues is alive and well. If it’s an hour of new blues, you can [...]

This week, we salute the talent of Etta James, through tracks you may not hear elsewhere. But, it’s not all Etta. Little Freddie King, Studebaker John & The Hawks, Joe Louis Walker, Bryce Janey, and Monkeyjunk are out there waiting to compel uncontrollable chair-dancing. It’s an ubeatable combination and an unbeatable foundation for another hour [...]

The 360th Roadhouse is a bag of gems – little surprises and shining moments spread across an hour. Larry McCray, Ruthie Foster, Johnny Nicholas, Shemekia Copeland, and the Reba Russell Band provide some very nice moments in the hour. And, as I always promise, it’s another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard.

The 359th Roadhouse takes a little different turn, steering away from traditional blues with new blues sounds as the destination. Jason Ricci, Beverly McClellan, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Treasa Levasseur, and Nick Moss deliver that new sound in an interesting hour of our favorite musical genre. It’s another hour of the finest blues you’ve never heard [...]