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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