The latest
Texas Blues Cafe
podcast pays a tribute to Texas bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughn -- Thank you Cowdog!

From their homepage, from which you can download the podcast (or you can find them among my myspace friends)......


In session 113 we remember Stevie Ray Vaughan with a new tribute song called "Stevie Ray" written by Scott West, our new artist added for this week. Also in this session is Allan Haynes-[Knocking At Your Door], Delta Moon-[Life's A Song], Stevie Ray & Jimmy vaughan[Good Texan], Tony Caggiano & Son-[Trouble], Los Lonely Boys-[Texican Style], Blackfoot-[Sunshine Again], Charlie Wheeler band-[I Got to Ramble], Van Wilks-[Long Way To Crawl], Bluessmyth-[Mean Mean Woman], Matt Jacobs Blues Group-[Tightrope] and Paul Thorn-[Every Little Bit Hurts].




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Want to recommend a fine preview of the 3rd National Women in Blues Festival, to be held later this month. You can find it in the 56th podcast of BluesNdaBlood. I know you'll enjoy this one! Click on the link below, or on the podcast's myspace page (among my friends), and download the joy, and enjoy!


The BluzNdaBlood Blues Podcast

Mon, 15 September 2008
The BluzNdaBlood Show 56, National Women in Blues Festival Preview Podcast


From the notes to the podcast.....

Well, this show highlights most of the performers for the upcoming 3rd Annual National Women in Blues Festival to be held in Wilmington, NC on September 26th and 27th!
. . . .
Well, we started of the show with Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women playing Don't You Tell Me! Who else are we going to be hearing from? How about our Friday headliner, Gaye Adegbalola playing She Just Wants To Dance, Big Ovaries, Baby, and The Dog Was Here First; Sarah Lemieux, Moonshine, and Balloulah Blues; Patty Benson, Single Blues, and Poor Ole You; and wrapping up with Saturday's headliner Candye Kane with Gifted In The Ways Of Love, and You Need A Great Big Woman.



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Although I haven't updated this recently, I have continued to download and listen to blues podcasts. And, I am delighted to say that the quality is outstanding -- the people making the podcasts are going to great lengths to find new talent, and to bring it to us, the listeners. They are also faithful to the artists they have introduced previously, and the result is wonderful podcasts. I'm not going to recommend any certain podcasts here, just want to say thank you to all of the people involved -- the artists, the record companies, the producers and manufacturers and server-providers who support the podcast efforts behind-the-scenes, and the people who sit there in front of the mike, play the songs, and introduce them to us. Thank you all very very much!

Recently I've been purchasing more CDs, wanting to support the artists and record companies as much as I can. Although in many ways I am an extremely conservative bluesman, I have enjoyed Ry Cooders A Meeting By The River crossover album, which blends continental Indian and Blues ever since my daughter (I believe it was) gave me the CD as a Christmas present. Here is the information about it, along with information about two other CDs that are a bit similar.....

a meeting by the river
ry cooder, vishwa mohan bhatt
(water lily acoustics, 1993)

talking timbuktu
ali farka toure, ry cooder
(hannibal, 1994)

slide to freedom
doug cox, salil bhatt, and ramkumar mishra
(northern blues, 2007)

Browsing through what appears to be available, I was amazed at how much I found....the blending of what may be considered "blues" from a wide variety of traditions is a truly mind-boggling venture.

This does not take anything away from my intense and deep love of the music of Robert Johnson, Lightnin Hopkins, Muddy Waters....and others who speak to the very depths of my soul.

Sun, 27 July 2008
The BluzNdaBlood Show 53, Big Lick Blues Festival Preview Podcast

from the podcast homepage, at The BluzNdaBlood Blues Podcast

"this show is providing a festival preview for the SunTrust Big Lick Blues Festival to be held in Roanoke VA on September 20, 2008 from 2:00 to 9:00 pm. "


a fine show....and it should be an awesome festival.

Thank you, Dave!

(BluzNdaBlood is also one of my friends on Myspace.)

South Australian ROOTS and BLUES


Podcast 78 August's Edition of 'Blues Time'
A wealth of new blues releases for you to have a listen to, opening with the gritty voice and bottle neck guitarplaying of Davis Coen with his interpretation of Blind Lemon's 'Jack of Diamonds'.
1 Davis Coen - Blues Lights For Yours And Mine - Jack Of Diamonds
2 Sonny Landreth - From The Reach - Storm Of Worry.
3 Jimmy Nails - Ain't No Stranger - The Voo Doo In You.
4 Malcolm Holcombe - Gamblin' House - My ol' radio.
5 Watermelon Slim and The Workers - No Paid Holidays - And When I Die.
6 Roddy Gordon - Love and Blues - Cold Coffee.
7 Carla Olsen - Dark Horses - Number One Is To Survive.
8 Janiva Magness - What Love Will Do - I Dont Want You On My Mind.
9 Magda Piskorczyk - Magda - Walking Blues.
10 Eli Paperboy Reed - Roll With You - Am I Wasting My Time
11 Pete Scheips Band - Back on the Blues Train - Back on the Train.
12 Delta Moon - Clear Blue Flame - Jessie Mae
13 Davis Coen - Blues Lights For Yours And Mine - C C Rider.

Bits from the South Australia Roots & Blues News Page (http://www.sablues.org):

'To coincide with The Juke Joint at Queens in October 'South Australian Roots and Blues' will be initiating:
'The Deringers Music 2008 Adelaide Blues Awards'.
These inaugural awards will acknowledge musicianship and performance quality in the genre of blues music by Adelaide based musicians and bands that have performed on a regular basis over the last year.
Finalists will be announced at the public launch of the Juke Joint at Queens at The Ed Castle on July 23rd.


Ry Cooder Completes California Trilogy:
Ry Cooder completes his California trilogy (which began with 2005's Chavez Ravine followed by 2007's My Name is Buddy) with I, Flathead, an album of music by the fictional musician Kash Buk and his band the Klowns, characters in Cooder's 95-page novella. The album and novella will be released together on June 24 by Nonesuch/Perro Verde Records.

There's more there.....well worth a look....



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Old School, the 19 July
Salty Dog Blues N Roots Podcast

is a really fine collection of traditional blues-- here is the blurb from the podcast homepage:

This week taking you back to some roots of the blues with heaps of cuts that define the thing. We're in the old school, learning how the job is done Dawgr's. Greats like BB King, Etta James, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy - the list is too damn long, but sooo good!

I'm lovin it and hope ya dig it too, Salty.



I do dig it, Salty. Thank you very much!!
Salty is also on myspace -- you can find him among my friends here. See Salty's myspace blog for a list of the songs on the podcast--fine buncha classics!




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South Australian Roots and Blues

from their homepage:
Podcast 76 July's edition of "Blues Time".
It's a "lonesome road" blues special in which we hit the road! Hope your shoes ain't got no holes 'cause we've got a fair way to travel in this podcast.
No journey is too long with good company and the good company for this road trip is Little Axe - Bob Brozman - John Lee Hooker - Elmore James - Howlin' Wolf - Muddy Waters - Bo Diddley - Chuck Berry - RL Burnside - Angia Mae Hinton - Charles Caldwell - J.B. Lenoir - Rory Block - Janiva Magness -Katie Melua - Marcia Ball - Bela Fleck.


It's an outstanding podcast, well put together to give you a memorable experience you will want to listen to more than once.

In his most recent production, Leo, of the Leo Bluesland podcast, has a fine interview with Janiva Magness. She is a very impressive woman, both as a singer and as someone who seriously devotes time to helping make society a better place for all of us. To tell you the truth, listening to the interview brought tears to my eyes a number of times.
The Leo's Bluesland can be downloaded at http://www.leosbluesland.com/

I also want to say thank you to Janiva Magness for making a trip to Iraq, to entertain troops in that war zone. As a veteran who spent three years overseas, and as someone who shares a deep concern for our troops, I am most sincerely grateful.

As a blues singer, as I've mentioned in my blog before, she is certainly one of the very best performers today, and her new album is destined, I believe, to bring her even closer to the wide recognition she deserves. She is on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/janivamagness, and I'm honored to have her as one of my friends here.

Thank you Janiva, and thank you Leo!

The passing on of Bo Diddley was noticed around the world, and I was both pleased and touched by the expressions of respect for that fine performer, who was so important in the development of rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and rock.....but who was also an outstanding performer of traditional blues.

Here are some of the podcasts I noticed.

First, Leo's Bluesland podcast for June 5 is a wonderful Bo Diddley tribute which pairs songs by that master with covers by later artists, such as the Rolling Stones. I really can't think of a better way to understand and really feel the influence Bo Diddley.

Salty Dog Blues N Roots podcast for June 7 is titled Diddley, and begins with a tribute to that fine performer. Salty Dog is also on myspace, and you can easily reach his podcast by clicking on his icon on my list of friends. So does the 2308 Raven n Blues podcast--from a British perspective--giving a Bo Diddley song from a performance in the UK, and then one by Eric Burdon which tells the story of a visit by Bo Diddley to a club where Burdon was performing.

Finally, Johnny Meister has a fine remembrance of Bo Diddley on his Blues File from WXPN podcast.

Great ideas.

Thanks to all of the people involved in producing these fine podcasts. Each one presents a slightly different picture of Bo Diddily--all of them very well done!

The Sunday Morning Blues Podcast (with Rich Gordon) for June 1, in four 33-minute sections, features performers who will be at the 25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival which goes from June5-8. It's a fine podcast--thank you Rich Gordon for the time and effort that went into putting it together. Wonderful work!

Here's a rundown ofthe festival, from the following site:

Chicago Festival Guide

"Category: Blues Festival
Chicago Blues Festival 2008
Posted February 13, 2008

25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival, June 5-8, 2008 in Grant Park

The Mayor's Office of Special Events has completed announcing the headliners for this year's festival:

Thursday, June 5: Guitarist and singer Johnny Winter will make his first appearance at the Chicago Blues Festival since the inaugural event in 1984. He'll be part of the opening night celebration of Muddy Waters on Thursday, June 5th, sharing the spotlight with "Superharp" James Cotton and others.

Friday, June 6: The Queen of the Blues, Koko Taylor (joined by her Blues Machine) headlines on Friday night, along with a set by Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater. There will also be a tribute to the past with a set featuring Ruby Andrews, Cicero Blake and Jackie Ross.

Saturday, June 7: Buckwheat Zydeco will headline on Saturday. The 60-year-old accordionist will bring one of the classic sounds of New Orleans to the stage. Also appearing that night will be Chicago favorite Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, the 2007 Band of the Year at the Blues Music Awards.

Sunday, June 8: Just announced to close the festival on Sunday June 8th will be the legendary B.B. King, making his first appearance at the festival in over 20 years. Other headliners on the final night include keyboardist Little Willie Littlefield, guitarist Bobby Parker and vocalist Karen Carroll, who performs with Charlie Love and Lurrie Bell. "


In addition, the official website is here:
City of Chicago - Blues Festival



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Very delighted to be able to introduce, and recommend, a blues podcast from New Zealand--apparently the whole program is available from Community Radio Hamilton (New Zealand), although I haven't had a chance to catch the show yet.
Here is the information, and I hope you enjoy the shows --
Community Radio Hamilton - The Blues Room


As of this date, there are 7 podcasts, the first one having been posted December 30, 2007
Big Boss Blues
Blues Roots and Blues Fruits

The Blues Room is also on myspace:

The Blues Room (NZ Radio)

My congratulations to the Texas Blues Cafe, on their 100th podcast!
Available through my friends here on myspace, or at http://texasblues.podomatic.com/
the podcast is in two parts--the first hour features Texas blues artists,
and the second blues musicians from around the world.
A great idea, and a great show!
Thank you!

Blues is a fountainhead, a spring whose waters have fed and continues to nurture a large and growing variety of musical genres. for this reason it's often virtually impossible to draw a line and say "this is blues, but that is not." Perhaps that is one reason for the use of the term "roots and blues."

I remember a long time ago, listening to a digression about drinking water in what was supposed to be a college lecture on asian art. the digression went something like this..... "How many of you know the wonderful taste of natural water? Most of you probably never sit down to just enjoy a simple glass of water....you want coffee, or tea, or coke.....you want something liquid but water by itself is somehow not enough. I want to encourage you to discover the wonderful taste of water, and to enjoy it for itself." He went on to explain how the taste of water differs from one location to the next, and even from one season to another. This is because the natural ingredients--minerals--that are in the water varies from place to place and month to month. "To be truly refreshed, there is nothing like a glass of good water."

These days, with "purified" water being sold in convenience stores and super markets around the world, and with water purification plants insuring that our water is safe to drink, it's becoming harder and harder to experience the taste of truly natural water. I was lucky, for a couple of years. I lived at the end of a valley, and drank water from the spring which ran in front of the house. There were no houses or fields, no human activity up valley from me --just a path leading through the forest up to the top of the hill. The spring water was absolutely delicious. True, I sometimes used it to make tea, or coffee....but I also loved to simply drink it as it was. Sometimes guests would be a bit surprised when I would "only" offer them water--but I would say, just take your time, enjoy the taste--this is fresh spring water--absolutely delicious. And it was. And they would always agree. Some would say, "I've never enjoyed a glass of water before."

Blues, pure, natural blues....nothing refreshes, nothing nourishes, nothing cures as well. Bues is my natural spring water.

Absolutely delighted to report that I've found three different podcasts that feature the 2008 Blues Music Awards:

Roadhouse 169 - The BMA Edition

The BluzNdaBlood Show 48, Blue Ribbon Blues Also one of my myspace friends, I'm happy to say.

Murphy's Saloon Blues Podcast 123 2008 Blues Music Awards Also one of my good myspace friends.

My most sincere thanks to these great podcasters for making these shows, and to the artists and recording companies giving their permission for their songs to be used. I'll be buying CDs as a way of showing both thanks and support.

You can find the winners here:
2008 Blues Music Award Winners Announced
and the Blues Foundation website also has the nominees--all outstanding artists.

Some of these fine blues musicians are also on myspace, and some are among my friends here.

Thank you all, and sincere congratulations to the winners, and to the nominees!!

Ya'll hang in there!!

BluzNdaBlood podcast 47, is titled Jivin' 'Bout Janiva,
with the subtitle, "Featuring the BluzNdaBlood Blues Goddess, Janiva Magness!"
It's a fine show, and I share host Dave Harrison's evaluation of Ms. Magness. There are other great artists on the podcast as well, and I know you'll enjoy listening to it. BluzNdaBlood is one of my myspace friends, and you can get to their podcast through myspace as well at http://www.myspace.com/bluzndablood. There's a new profile song there: Stealin' Sugr, by Janiva Magness.
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And, I'm very very glad that Candye Kane is on the path to a great recovery!