00:08 Welcome to episode #006 of Confessing the Blues!

01:21 Upcoming Events

• Enter the Blues DIY Blues Workshop gives you control of your fate in Atlanta Feb. 19-21.
• Sweet Molasses Blues rolls through Boston Feb. 26-28!
• Steel City Blues puts you to the forge March 5-7 in Pittsburgh
• Blues Before Sunrise comes to Melbourne, Austraila in March 5-7
• Mile High Blues is next on the road March 26-28 in Denver, CO! Twitter feed still right here.
• BluesSHOUT is IMPENDING, smashing into Austin April 16-18 2010! *queue most any music from a Michael Bay movie”*

02:31 New Music To Check Out

• “Red House” by the great Jimi Hendrix on Blues, a recent addition to eMusic.
• “Times Won’t Be Hard Always” from George Smith off of Now You Can Talk About Me, eMusic-available.
• “Steamroller Blues” as done by Elvis Presley on Elvis 75, on eMusic.
• “Blues for Gamblers” by Big Joe Williams (not that one, the other one), from Have Mercy! which is, as usual, on eMusic.
• “With My Maker I Am One,” a new release from Eric Bibb from his album Booker’s Guitar from eMusic.

21:30 New Additions to eMusic: Warner Music Group

This isn’t your normal addition to an already huge library of music.  Warner Music Group includes a wide selection of music that wasn’t previously available to eMusic users, and we can offer a couple of examples why you should take note.

• “Night Time is the Right Time” by Aretha Franklin from the album The Delta Meets Detroit: Aretha’s Blues.
• “Mr. Charles Blues” is from Ray Charles’s The Genius Sings the Blues.

27:53 Blues That Ain’t: Songs That Aren’t Blues That People Keep Playing

• “Glory Box” by Portishead?  Why not try out a little Ike & Tina Turner, doing “I Smell Trouble” from The Soul Anthology on eMusic?
• Feel like playing “Sweat” by Popa Chubby?  The kids’ll just love to hear “I Just Want to Make Love to You” by Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon off of At the Village Gate With Pete Seeger.  Can be found on eMusic and Amazon.
• Does playing “Fire” by Babyface and Desiree’ get you down?  Try putting Howlin’ Wolf’s “I Ain’t Superstitious” out there off of The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions, available on Amazon.  The Wiki for this album can be found here.
• If playing “Sunday Morning” by Maroon 5 makes you blue, try some actual blues!  “Fine and Mellow” by Ella Fitzgerald, on Bluella: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Blues.  Get it on eMusic or Amazon.

63:39  Feedback

• Carter Halloran from London recommends Kenny Neal’s “Going to the Country” off of Bayou Blood, available on eMusic and Amazon.
• Stokie writes back in wanting our listeners to hear The Hottest Aussie Blues and Roots, available on eMusic or Amazon.  We liked “Much Too Much” by Diamond Dave and the Doodaddies and “Little Journey” by Juzzie Smith.

75:30 Thanks!

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00:12 Welcome to episode #004 of Confessing the Blues!

00:54 Upcoming Events

• Lindy Focus is Dec. 27-31 in Asheville, NC.  Blues electives in the classes.
• Lone Star Championships is near! Jan. 15-17, come compete.
• Enter the Blues DIY Blues Workshop hits Atlanta Feb. 19-21.
• Boston take shelter, Sweet Molasses Blues rolls through town Feb. 26-28!
• BluesSHOUT is STILL coming up April 16-18 2010! *queue “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”*

02:20 New Music To Check Out

• “Perpetual Blues Machine” by Keb’ Mo’, off of Live & Mo’, available on eMusic and Amazon.
  
• “Travellin Riveside,” originally by Robert Johnson, performed by Geoff Muldar & The Texas Sheiks on the album Texas Sheiks. Now on eMusic and Amazon.
  
• “Come On In My Kitchen” from Chris Thomas King’s Red Mud Sessions on eMusic and Amazon.
• “I’m Takin’ a Devil of a Chance” by Lightnin’ Hopkins, released on Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings available on Amazon or on eMusic.
• “Blues Iblis” from an Indonesian artist named Adrian Adieoteomo producing country blues.  Not available for purchase, but can be listened to on MySpace.
• A little outside what we normally provide here, but John Lee Hooker doing “Hobo Blues” at the 1965 American Folk Blues Festival is something pretty special.  Watch the video on YouTube.
  

16:14 Feedback…Feedback…and Feedback.

• Henrik from Uppsala, Sweden asks about work songs in relation to blues, and how to help derive a blues scene from an existing lindy hop scene.
• Kent from San Francisco takes us down a series of long roads into what comprises the elements of blues dances/music.  This email hijacks most of the rest of the podcast, but is great discussion material.  We play several songs through these questions to illustrate points:

1. “Feelin’ Good” by Otis Spann off of The Blues Never Die! Available on eMusic and Amazon.
2. “Egyptian Fantasy” by Sidney Bechet, available on many albums and collections, but let’s go with the Ken Burns collection on eMusic and Amazon.
3. “Summertime” by Gene Harris, off of The Best of the Concord Years on eMusic and Amazon.

• Bill Speidel from Virgina Beach wants folks to hear the Blues Empacts, which you can check out on their website.
• Finally, we get an email from Stokie in England.  He and his wife have started their own venue in Stoke-on-Trent where he wants to try to focus on traditional blues, and is asking for support from dancers not just around the country but those who might be traveling through.  Check out their website, and look at the interview they did for the BBC.  They have made the offer of free entry to anyone who mentions the podcast and shows their U.S. passport at the door, so make sure drop by!

71:41 A Little More Music

• “Love That Girl” by Raphael Saadiq, released on The Way I See It available on iTunes and Amazon.
• “Bridging the Gap” from Nas, featuring Olu Dara.  The single is available on eMusic.

74:55 Thanks!

Contact us via email at info@confessingtheblues.com or phone at 60-THE-BLUES (608-432-5837).

75:17 Shakes?

 

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