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24.3.11

RAY BEADLE CAN COVER ALL THE STYLES HE CAN SWING, BURN AND BE AS SOULFUL AS ANYONE YOU COULD LISTEN TO. CHECK HIM OUT AT BLUESFEST. THE DINGOES HAVE REFORMED AND ARE PLAYING BLUESFEST AS ARE THE SNOWDROPPERS. ALSO TONITE SOME NEW RELEASES FROM JOE BONAMASSA AND A GIVEAWAY. WE START WITH WHAT COULD ONLY BE CALLED POP SONGS. ENJOY.

·      14. Somewhere Over the Rainbow. IZ. Facing Future. Mountain Apple Company. 1993.

·      18. Get Rhythm. Ry Cooder. River Rescue. The Very Best of. Warner. 1994. 9362-45599-2

·      1. Way Out West. The Dingoes. The Best of. Mushroom.1992. D24508.

·      11. Choir Girl. Katie Noonan. Standing on the Outside. The Songs of Cold Chisel. Rhino.2007

·      3. Forever Now. Cold Chisel. Standing on the Outside. The Songs of Cold Chisel. Rhino.2007

·      9. I’ll Be Gone. Spectrum. Part One. Aztec Music. 2007.

·      3. Fish Milkshake. Ray Beadle & the King Brothers. Down Home Bebop. RBK. 001.

·      5. Kind Hearted Woman. Ray Beadle & the King Brothers. Down Home Bebop. RBK. 001.

·      1. Ain’t Going Out Like That. Ray Beadle. Loaded. Independent. 2009.

·      8. Fogline Fever. Ray Beadle. Loaded. Independent. 2009.

·      12. Bring You Down. Ray Beadle. Loaded. Independent. 2009.

FEATURE ALBUM.

JOE BONAMASSA. DUST BOWL. J & R ADVENTURES. 2011. [Subscriber giveaway]

JOE BONAMASSA. LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL. J & R ADVENTURES. 2010.

Joe Bonamassa has burst onto the scene after a worthy apprenticeship. He has become a prolific recording and touring artist in the last few years appearing at Bluesfest and touring in May. Bonamassa reminds me of Gary Moore in that he is on the rock side of the Blues coin. For me at times there are two many notes – it’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play - but there is no arguing his popularity and showmanship nor his ability to pull a crowd.

·      2. Dust Bowl.

·      3. Tennessee Plates.

·      7. Further on Up The Road.

·      10. Sloe Gin.

·      2. Your Funeral My Trial.

·      3. Blues Deluxe.

·      1. Do The Stomp. The Snowdroppers. Too Late to Pray. Difrnt Music.

·      2. Fucked Up Blues. The Snowdroppers. Too Late to Pray. Difrnt Music.

·      4. Good Drugs, Bad Women. The Snowdroppers. Too Late to Pray. Difrnt Music.

·      2. Boy on the Run. The Dingoes. The Best of. Mushroom.1992.

·      4. Going Down Again. The Dingoes. The Best of. Mushroom.1992.

·      5. Smooth Sailing. The Dingoes. The Best of. Mushroom.1992.

We can’t let the show finish without some music from Pinetop Perkins who passed away earlier this week at age 97. Let the Boogie Woogie roll. This biography comes from www.allmusic.com 

by Bill Dahl

He admittedly wasn't the originator of the seminal piano piece "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," but it's a safe bet that more people associate it nowadays with Pinetop Perkins than with the man who devised it in the first place, Clarence "Pinetop" Smith. Although it seems as though he's been around Chicago forever, the Mississippi native actually got a relatively late start on his path to Windy City immortality. It was only when Muddy Waters took him on to replace Otis Spann in 1969 that Perkins' rolling mastery of the ivories began to assume outsized proportions.

Perkins began his blues existence primarily as a guitarist, but a mid-'40s encounter with an outraged chorus girl toting a knife at a Helena, AR, nightspot left him with severed tendons in his left arm. That dashed his guitar aspirations, but Joe Willie Perkins came back strong from the injury, concentrating solely on piano from that point on. Perkins had travelled to Helena with Robert Nighthawk in 1943, playing with the elegant slide guitarist on Nighthawk's KFFA radio program. Perkins soon switched over to rival Sonny Boy Williamson's beloved King Biscuit Time radio show in Helena, where he remained for an extended period. Perkins accompanied Nighthawk on a 1950 session for the Chess brothers that produced "Jackson Town Gal," but Chicago couldn't hold him at the time.

Nighthawk disciple Earl Hooker recruited Perkins during the early '50s. They hit the road, pausing at Sam Phillips' studios in Memphis long enough for Perkins to wax his first version of "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" in 1953. He settled in downstate Illinois for a spell, and then relocated to Chicago. Music gradually was relegated to the back burner until Hooker coaxed him into working on an LP for Arhoolie in 1968. When Spann split from Muddy Waters, the stage was set for Pinetop Perkins‘re-emergence.

After more than a decade with the Man, Perkins and his bandmates left en masse to form the Legendary Blues Band. Their early Rounder albums (Life of Ease, Red Hot 'n' Blue) prominently spotlighted Perkins' rippling 88s and rich vocals. He had previously waxed an album for the French Black & Blue logo in 1976 and four fine cuts for Alligator's Living Chicago Blues anthologies in 1978. Finally, in 1988, he cut his first domestic album for Blind Pig, After Hours. Ever since then, Pinetop Perkins has made up for precious lost time in the studio. Discs for Antone's, Omega (Portrait of a Delta Bluesman, a solo outing that includes fascinating interview segments), Deluge, Earwig, and several other firms ensure that his boogie legacy won't be forgotten in the decades to come. In 2010 he joined with harmonica whiz Willie "Big Eyes" Smith for the album Joined at the Hip.

·      10. Hey Mr. Pinetop Perkins. Pinetop Perkins. Ladies Man. M.C Records. [Angela Strehli]

·      3. Big Fat Mama. Pinetop Perkins. Ladies Man. M.C Records.

·      6. Kansas City. Pinetop Perkins. Ladies Man. M.C Records.

·      10. Trouble in Mind. Pinetop Perkins. Ladies Man. M.C Records.

·      12. Chicken Shack. Pinetop Perkins. Ladies Man. M.C Records.

·      7. Pinetop’s New Boogie Woogie. Pinetop Perkins. Ladies Man. M.C Records. [Marcia Ball]

·      3. I Want To Be Loved. Muddy Waters. Hard Again. CBS. 1977.

·      6. The Blues Had a Baby. Muddy Waters. Hard Again. CBS. 1977.

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