Blues Moon Playlist for Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011

Blues Moon Radio playlist (proposed) for Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011 (6-8 p.m. ET/USA)

Hi, Blues fans! Please tune in a little before 6 p.m. so you can get the stream settled in on your computer... or - if you are in Columbia SC - tune in at 90.5 FM or HD1 Columbia. Streaming is at: www.wusc.sc.edu (click on the link to stream/listen at top left of the site).

Newly released music will feature the name of the CD following the artist/song:

Whiteboy James and the Blues Express / Trouble / Extreme Makeover
J.T. Coldfire / Lee Malone / Crazy Sun
Susan Wylde / In the Light / In the Light
Sena Ehrhardt / Leave the Light On / Leave the Light On
Toni Spearman / Good Love Gone Bad *
Joanne Shaw Taylor / White Sugar
Marshall Lawrence / Going Down to Louisiana
Freddie Vanderford / Trouble Come Knockin' **
J Edwards / Turn Me On **
Yank Rachell / Cigarette Blues / Blues Mandolin Man
Lizzie Miles / Electrician Blues
William Moore / Ragtime Millionaire
Ben Prestage / Amsterdam Rag / One Crow Murder
The Delta Flyers / Sunflower River Rag / Sixteen Bars
Matt Walsh / Woody's Rag**
Ben Curry / The Laffing Rag
Tommy McClennan / I'm a Guitar King
Sylvester Weaver / Guitar Rag

(All of the above songs - new or old - are premiering on the Blues Moon... their debut on BMR)

We also featured a tribute to Floyd Council for his 100th birthday, with Runaway Man Blues and his friend Pink Anderson with "She Knows How to Stretch It"... (a dollah bill, zat iz). LOL!

The second half of Blues Moon's radio show tonight will feature music that is about music! :)We'll fit in all we can from this list...

Nat King Cole / Old Piano Plays the Blues
Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom / Organ Colossus
Ray Manzarek and Roy Rogers / An Organ, a Guitar and a Chickenfoot / Translucent Blues
Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King / My Guitar
Earl Hooker / Blue Guitar
James Cotton / Superharp
King Curtis / Harmonica Twist
Sonny Terry / Harmonica Hop
The Carver Boys / Sisco Harmonica Blues
Coy "Hot Shot" Love / Harmonica Jam
Harmonica George (Robinson) / Sputnik Music
Anthony Gomes / Music Is the Medicine
Hollywood Blue Flames / Music Man
Jon Shain / Ooncha Ooncha Music / Times Right Now ***

Notes:
* Toni Spearman will be coming back to South Carolina from her home in Europe in mid-September for several weeks... catch her while she is here!
** Freddie Vanderford, Matt Walsh and J Edwards are appearing at the "Last Blast of Summer Festival" brought to the Upstate of SC on Sept. 17 by Treeline Entertainment - more info at their FB page or via She D'Ambrosio.
*** Jon Shain's new CD gives the flavor of old-time Blues, while remaining au courant. Look for a Blues Moon interview with him soon!

Blues Moon Radio Playlist for Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011

This past Tuesday's playlist included old and new music (new has the artist and song as well as the name of the CD):

Zoot Sims - Someone to Watch Over Me - Putamayo Presents Jazz
Fats Noel - You Belong to Me
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Shout, Sister, Shout
Quinn Sullivan - Buddy's Blues - Cyclone
Junior Wells and the Aces - Got My Mojo Workin' - Live in Boston 1966
Big Maybelle - Jinny Mule
Grady Champion - My Rooster is King
Armadillo Blues (Sweden) - Chickenfoot - Swamp Blues
Biscuit Miller - Butter my Biscuits - Blues With a Smile
Demetria Taylor - All Your Love - Bad Girl
Hollywood Blue Flames - Rambler and a Rollin' Stone - Deep in Amderica Disc 1
Jason Ricci and New Blood - Shake Your Hips
Bex Marshall - Black Guitar

Tribute to David Honeyboy Edwards from his CD, Delta Bluesman -

You Got to Roll (accapella)
You Got to Roll (Levee Camp Song)
Big Katie Allen
Number 12 at the Station
Who May Your Regular Be
Worried Life Blues
Eyes Full of Tears

Goodnight and goodbye, Honeyboy... you are missed.

Blues Moon Radio and Clair DeLune

Blues Moon Playlist - Aug. 23, 2011

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Hour 1
Aaron Williams and the Hoodoo / It Is What It Is / 10:49
Ben Prestage - Tell the Devil I'm Gone / One Crow Murder
Billy Thompson - Are You Ready / A Better Man
Bobby Messano - More Than Meets the Eye / That's Why I Don't Sing the Blues
Davis Coen - What's Wrong / Can't Get There From Here
Henry Gray - Out On the Road / Lucky Man
Hope Waits - Cigarettes and Coffee / Hope Waits
Ruff Kutt Blues Band - Cut Like a Knife / Mill Block Blues

Hour 2 (7-8 p.m.)
Bobby Messano - San Antone / That's Why I Don't Sing the Blues
Aaron Williams and the Hoodoo - My Turn / 10:49
Ben Prestage - One Crow Murder / One Crow Murder
Billy Thompson - Who Knew / A Better Man
Davis Coen - Soft of Heaven / Can't Get There From Here
Hope Waits - Get Behind the Mule / Hope Waits
Ruff Kutt Blues Band - The Fowler Street Tumble / Mill Block Blues

We are also featuring additional new music throughout the evening.

Among our featured players are:

Grace Askew - Jupe - Grace Askew and the Black Market Goods
Our mutual friend, Davis Coen (above), responded to a question about what he loves about her music on the CD "Grace Askew and Black Market Goods" by saying, "I think it's powerful because it's simple and the songwriting and guitar and vocals are natural and nothing seems forced. That's something that I admire most about her because I feel myself consciously trying to achieve that when it just seems born into her."



Shelley Hardinge, the Hip-Shakin' Mama - Rooster Stew - Reclaim Your Land
Our Hip-Shakin' Mama from our Northern neighbor, Canada, has had quite a time of it with her music being pirated illegally (redundant, but you cannot stress the impact of illegal downloading enough when it comes to artists not being able to make a living from what they do). How about be a sport and get her music legally via ITunes? The CD is "Reclaim Your Land."

Blues Moon Radio loves our home-based Carolina Blues musicians - so we want to share our musical treasures with the world:

Gaffney, S.C. musician Jeff Gates from "You Make Me" has impressed me not only with his music, but because he is just a darned nice, polite fellow.

North Carolina's Jon Shain Trio entertained me on my way up to Charlotte lately - so much so, I listened to them on the way back as well. Old-time Blues sound with some rowdy, hokum lyrics - fun! A bit of a departure for Jon and I loved every minute... twice!



This is the time of year Blues Moon Radio focuses on contemporary Blues. So ship me your CD, let me know if your lyrics are FCC compliant or not (song by song basis) and we'll see if we can get your music featured, too. If I have your CD already, it might be waiting to spring from the pack and get on the air... call, e-mail or FB me, sweetie and remind me to go pull your gem from the hoi polloi. I'm in a reviewing mood, babies.

We are in mourning over the loss of Jerry Leiber of Leiber and Stoller. We will fill the show with some tunes in tribute to the sheer magnitude of impact their songs had on music (and me personally - probably you, too). Tears are being shed. Tears of gratitude and sorrow.

Y'all take care and treasure every moment.

Blues Moon Radio Playlist for July 26, 2011

Playlist:

Jazz Gillum - She Keeps On Rickin'
Yank Rachell - She Changed the Lock
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup and Ransom Knowling - She Ain't Nothin' but Trouble
L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson - She Got It From the Start
Papa Lightfoot and Edgar Blanchard - She'll Be Mine After Awhile
Robert Lighthouse - She's the One I Love
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - She Walks Right In b/w She Winked Her Eye
A.C. Reed - She's Fine
Jerry "Boogie" McCain - She Tore Me Up b/w She's Tough
Duke Robillard - She Made My Mind
Sean Costello - She Changed My Mind
Hollywood Fats Band - She's Dynamite
Otis Grand and Phillip Walker - She Torture Me
Charles "Hungry" Williams - So Glad She's Mine
Hound Dog Taylor - She's Gone (LIVE CUT)
Smokey Joe Baugh - She's a Woman
Gary Bonds - She's a Woman

Part II

J Edwards - I Got a Woman
  NOTE: (happy birthday to J! come see him live Saturday, July 30 at Taps Pub and Grill on Two Notch Road in Columbia SC)
James Harman Band - My Little Girl
Jackie Payne - She's Nineteen Years Old
James Cotton - Find yourself Another Fool
Jon Shain - Mr. Snakeoil!
JJ Grey and Mofro - Georgia Warhorse
Satan and Adam - I'll Get You
Michael Ingmire - He's Getting Divided
Electrofied w/ Tony Fazio - Life Is Like a Boomerang
Roosevelt Sykes - Eagle Rock Me Baby
Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues
Yank Rachell - Des Moines, Iowa
The Paul Butterfield Band - Driftin' and Driftin'
Peter Lang - Buckdancer's Choice

Blues Moon Radio Playlist for May 3, 2011

Good evening... we have an interview with Scott Cable, of Charlotte N.C., who produced Damon Fowler's newest CD. He will be giving Blues artists and musicians tips on some success tactics for the the business and production sides of music.  I'm very pleased with his interview and think you will be, too.

In the 7 p.m. hour, we will commemorate the 100th birthday of Robert Johnson. We'll start with artists who influenced him, then we'll play some of his top songs, then finish up with some of the artists he influenced.

We'll never have time to fit all this in, but we'll choose from these songs in the second hour of the show.

Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues b/w Old Original Kokomo Blues
Willie Brown - M&O Blues b/w Future Blues
Son House - Clarksdale Moan b/w Mississippi County Farm Blues
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman b/w I'm So Glad
Lonnie Johnson - Mr. Johnson's Blues, No. 2
b/w Interview about the death of Sonny Boy Williamson (I)
Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues  b/w Love In Vain 

****** /we will pick up here for Part II, RJ tribute next week... the show will be 3 hours (6-9 all summer!  Yeah, man! - thanks for listening... thanks for all the calls and FB posts! :)

Dust My Broom
Alan Lomax - Aland Lomax introduces David (Honeyboy) Edwards
Honeyboy Edwards - Roamin' and Ramblin' Blues
Intv: When I Came to Memphis
Honeyboy Edwards - Rocks in my Pillow
Intv: We Used to Sing That...
Elmore James - Standing at the Crossroads
Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Rambling on My Mind
Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters - Spoonful

Blues Moon Radio Playlist for April 19, 2011 - Blues for Lola

Tonight's show is dedicated to a longtime loyal friend, my beloved long-time loyal beautiful hot driving car - Lola - who will be moving to a new home soon...


Mississippi Bracey - You Scolded Me and Drove Me
Anthony Gomes  - Won't Let You Down
Shirley Johnson - Unchain My Heart
Bnois King and Smokin' Joe Kubek - What a Sight to See

Nicole Hart - Treasure
Duke Robillard - Too Hot to Handle
Sam Butler - You Can't Keep No Brown

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - She's Gone
Bonnie Lee - Wee Baby Blues
John Lee Hooker - Wednesday Evening She Left Me
Unknown singer - Why Did We Have to Part?

Young Jessie - Don't Happen No More
Otis Rush and Little Walter - It May be the Last Time

Howard and the White Boys - The Last Time

Woodrow (Wilson) Adams - The Last Time


Charlie McCoy - Last Time Blues
Art Tatum and Big Joe Turner - Last Goodbye Blues
Robert Lighthouse - Last Fair Deal Gone Down


Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry - Last Night Blues
Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers - Last Night
Tarheel Slim - My Baby's Gone

Hot Lips Page - My Gal is Gone
Muddy Waters - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone

Doug Jay - Until We Meet Again

Thanks... see you over at Utopia for the Blues Jam tonight and at White Mule Friday for Taylor Moore's CD release party!

Stay Blues,
Clair DeLune and Rocky-Dawg, Blues Defender!

Blues Moon Radio Playlist for April 12, 2011

Tonight's show features April birthdays for the week of April 12-18, also rain showers and flowers.

Birthday Blues:
Hound Dog Taylor - Walking the Ceiling
Shakey Jake Harris - It Won't Happen Again
Roy Dunn - Further on Down the Line
William Harris - Leavin' Here Blues
Frank Frost - Jelly Roll King
Piano Red - Jump Man Jump
Johnny Littlejohn - Dream
Little Brother Montgomery - Cry , Cry Baby
Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Ain't That Dandy
Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

Rain and Fleurs
Bessie Smith - Keeps On a-Rainin' - Papa He Cain't Make No Time
Damon Fowler - After the Rain
David Honeyboy Edwards - Spread My Raincoat Down
Big Joe Turner - Rainy Day Blues
Gitfiddle Jim - Rainy Night Blues
Big Maybelle - Rain Down Rain
Bobby Jones - Come in Out of the Rain
Jimmy Reed - Little Rain
The Famous Blue Jay Singers - Oh My Lord Didn't It Rain
Willie "61" Blackwell - Four O'Clock Flower Blues
Jon Shain - Little Flower

Lonnie Shields - Fistful of Dollars
Bob Corritore and Little Milton - 6 Bits in Your Dollar
Jimmy Spruill - Scratchin'
Little Milton - Beggin' My Baby
Albert Castiglia - Could Not Ask For More

Scott Holt - Living in Fear

Blues Moon Radio Show Playlist January 25, 2011 - Drink Small

Happy birthday to late January Bluesmen and women - with an especially hearty Happy Birthday to South Carolina's own Blues Doctor, Drink Small...

You can see him perform at his Birthday Bash in Bishopville Friday night - and he'll make an appearance at Mac's on Main in Columbia Saturday night...

We will welcome him to the second hour of Blues Moon Radio - live in studio!

Starting us out tonight will be some artists with late January birthdays...

Lead Belly - Gallis Pole b/w You Can't Mistreat Me
Snooks Eaglin - Country Boy Down in New Orleans
Eva Taylor - Organ Grinder
Doug Quattlebaum - If You've Ever Been Mistreated
Big Mojo Ele(a)m - Special Kind of Love
Bob Corritore with TomCat Courtney - Sundown San Diego
Guitar Shorty - Old School
Etta James - I'll Take Care of You b/w Only Women Bleed
Sleepy John Estes - Down South Blues
Little Mack Simmons - Blues for Atomic-H

Our live interview with Drink Small [www.myspace.com/drinksmallblues] and Moses from Mystic Vibrations was a blast! Drink was in his element with his "Drinkisms" as he touted his new 5 song CD, called "Drinkisms," which features the Mystic Vibrations band members. The merging of Blues and Reggae took a natural flow on that CD - especially the cut "Jamaican Blues."

We wish Drink and the band great success with the CD and tour... there is also a Music Maker Foundation CD [http://www.musicmaker.org/news_post/drink-small-the-real-blues-doctor/ ] featuring Drink that fans will want to have in their collections. Drink Small was given an honorary Ph.D. in October of 2010, so he really is a Blues Doctor now... regardless, he is a one-of-a-kind treasure - one whom we at Blues Moon Radio are so glad to call a friend and welcome on the air. "Still Great at 78! - Cannot wait - because at 79 he's going to be mighty fine!" if I might toss out one of my own "Drinkisms!"

Thanks again and VERY happy birthday ... please check out one of his birthday celebrations: Bishopville Opera House Friday night, Mac's on Main (Columbia SC) Saturday night and Feb 5, 2011 he will be at the 145 Club in Winnsboro S.C. Come out and support a living legend!

We didn't have time to complete our "end of January" birthdays ... so tune in next week when you will hear:
Buddy Moss - Jealous Hearted Man
 Elmore James - Sho' Nuff I Do
 Beale Streeters with Bobby Blue Bland - Lovin' Blues
Hot Lips Page - My Gal is Gone
Paul Gayten - The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round
Eddie Taylor - Bad Boy
Ruth Brown - Wild Wild Young Men
 Roosevelt Sykes - Music is my Business
Charlie Musselwhite - Trouble No More

and much, much more!

Thanks for listening... hope you all enjoyed it half as much as I did bringing it to you!
Clair DeLune
and RockyDawg, Blues Defender (co-producer and handsome one of our lil'pack).

Blues Moon Radio Playlist Sept. 7, 2010

Good evening...  the playlist will be updated throughout the show (6-8 p.m.) so please keep refreshing your browser to see the changes.

This week's show will feature many of the artists who were born in September... if we cannot finish them all, we'll endeavor to complete the list next week... never give up, huh?

Sorry to let her fans know that Robin Rogers is not doing well - this update was posted a few hours ago -

Robin Rogers

MEDICAL UPDATE: Last week Robin was to undergo TIPS surgery. A CT scan prior to the procedure revealed a cancerous tumor which is untreatable. Robin is at home now and hospice has been called in. Tony and family respectfully ask that you do not stop by or call. They need private time to be on their own. 


Ironically, I just received Robin's newest CD as I stopped at the post office on the way up to the station tonight. I'll play something from it toward the last of the show. 

May God bestow his kindest blessings upon Robin, her family, friends and fans.



Blues Moon Playlist for 9/7/10
Honeyboy Edwards - Roamin' and Ramblin' b/w You Got to Roll
Katie Webster - Those Lonely, Lonely Nights
Edith Wilson - Rules and Regulations 'Signed Razor Jim'
Vincent "Guitar Red" Duling - Go Ahead On

Noah Lewis - Chickasaw Special
Peter "Memphis Slim" Chatman - Panic Street
Freddie King - Hideaway
Meade "Lux" Lewis - Spirit of Boogie Woogie
Sunnyland Slim - Roll and Tumble Blues
Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do

Little Milton - Who's Cheatin' Who?
Alger "Texas" Alexander - Levee Camp Moan Blues
Coy "Hot Shot" Love - Harmonica Jam
Roy Brown - Love for Sale

Barbecue Bob - Goin' Up the Country
Jazz Gillum and the State Street Boys - Mobile and Western Line
Gus Cannon - Interview b/w Poor Boy, Long Ways from Home

Charles Brown - Driftin' Blues
Mr. Google Eyes - No Wine, No Women
Silas Hogan - Just Give Me a Chance
Snooky Pryor - Work With Me Annie

We're going to save the rest of the September birthdays until next week... and move on to some other music... I had a request for some of what follows, the Davis Coen is brand new, and so is the Robin Rogers, which I send out with love and heartache, as well as prayers for a miracle.

Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie
Davis Coen - Big Leg Woman from Juke Box Classic (new)
Robin Rogers  from Back in the Fire (new) - Baby Bye-Bye b/w Ocean of Tears b/w Yesterday's Blues

Take care of yourselves... and each other... we'll see you next week... Clair DeLune