Everyone's Buddy

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Buddy Guy New Album Release Celebration

Intro
Buddy Guy - Out In the Woods (feat. Robert Randolph) / Skin Deep
Buddy Guy - Every Time I Sing the Blues (feat. Eric Clapton) / Skin Deep
Buddy Guy - Show Me the Money / Skin Deep
Buddy Guy - Lyin' Like a Dog / Skin Deep

First Break

Buddy Guy - Somebody's Sleeping In My Bed / Bring 'Em In
Buddy Guy - Five Long Years / Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met the Blues / Stone Crazy
Buddy Guy - Tramp / Sweet Tea
Buddy Guy - I Suffer With the Blues / Stone Crazy

Second Break

Rainbow - Blues / On Stage [for Uncle Milo]
Leadbelly - Black Betty / Storyteller Blues
The Raconteurs - Top Yourself / Consolers of the Lonely
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Did You Get That Letter I Throwed In Your Backyard / Crudup's Mood
Fleetwood Mac - Sugar Mama / Fleetwood Mac In Chicago
Lightnin' Hopkins - Early Mornin' Blues / Lightnin' Hopkins (Everest Records FS-241)
Pinetop Perkins - Down In Mississippi (feat. B.B. King) / Pinetop Perkins & Friends

Third Break

T-Bone Walker - Blues For Marili / T-Bone Blues (Atlantic)
Mississippi John Hurt - My Creole Belle / The Best of Mississippi John Hurt
The Black Keys - Heavy Soul / The Big Come Up [for Brooke]
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red / Cherry Red Blues
Bobby "Blue" Bland - Fever / Ask Me 'Bout Nothing (But the Blues)
The Allman Brothers Band - Trouble No More / The Allman Brothers Band
Long John Baldry - I'm Ready / It Ain't Easy

Kneelin' At the Altar In Clarksdale

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n Roll, Part III:
No Frills ... Just Rock 'n Roll

Intro
The Black Crowes - Walk Believer Walk / Warpaint
Fleetwood Mac - Merry Go Round / Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, & Eric Clapton - Tusla Time / The Night of the Kings [Cliff's Pick]
The White Stripes - I Fought Piranhas / The White Stripes
Free - Going Down Slow / Tons of Sobs

First Break

Johnny Winter - Bad Luck and Trouble / The Progressive Blues Experiment
ZZ Top - Blue Jean Blues / Fandango!
George Thorogood and the Destroyers - Goodbye Baby / Better Than the Rest
Clutch - Who's Been Talking? / Robot Hive/Exodus
Janis Joplin - Ball & Chain / 18 Essential Songs

Second Break

Jimi Hendrix - Bleeding Heart / Blues
AC/DC - There's Gonna Be Some Rockin' / Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
The Yardbirds - Like Jimmy Reid Again / The Very Best of the Yardbirds
The Rolling Stones - You Gotta Move / Sticky Fingers
Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put a Spell on You / Chronicle
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Bad Boys Blues / Skynyrd Collectybles [for Travis' 21st]

Third Break

Led Zeppelin - Black Country Woman / Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin - Bring It On Home / Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin - In My Time of Dying / Physical Graffiti
The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post / The Allman Brothers Band

Been Sittin' Here Drinkin' ...

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n Roll, Part II:
Champagne & Reefer

Intro
Muddy Waters - Champagne & Reefer
Muddy Waters - Whiskey Blues
Buck Washington - Save the Roach For Me
Toni Price - Tennessee Whiskey / Born To Be Blue
Jimmy Liggins - Drunk
Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus / Mule Variations
Big Bill Broonzy - Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down
John Kosco - Reefer Headed Woman

First Break

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Poison Whiskey (Acoustic) / Endangered Species
Larry Adler - Smoking Reefers
Biker Joe Warren - Whiskey & Greens / Biker Joe Warren Rides Again
Papa Lightfoot - Wine, Women, Whiskey
Jimmy Witherspoon - Drinkin' Beer / The Best of Jimmy Witherspoon
Snooks Eaglin - Let Me Go Home, Whiskey / New Orleans Street Singer
Peter Cleighton feat. Blind John Davies - Moonshine Man Blues
ZZ Top - Thunderbird / Fandango!

Second Break

Memphis Slim - Beer Drinkin' Woman
Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Asked For Whiskey, She Brought Me Gasoline
Champion Jack Dupree - Junker's Blues
The Allen Brothers - Jake Walk Blues
Tampa Red & the Chicago 5 feat. Blind John Davies - I'm Gonna Get High
Lil' Johnson - Mellow Stuff
George Thorogood and the Destroyers - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer / George Thorogood and the Destroyers

Third Break

Robert Johnson - Drunken-Hearted Man
Bea Foote - Weed
Bo Carter - Let's Get Drunk Again
Barney Bigard Sextet feat. Joe Thomas and Art Tatum - Sweet Marijuana Brown
Dick Justice - Cocaine
Bessie Smith - The Gin House Blues
Amos Milburn - Good, Good Whiskey
Victoria Spivey & Lonnie Johnson - Dope Head Blues
Reverend Horton Heat - Gin & Tonic Blues / The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds

I Just Want To Make Love To You

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n Roll, Part I:
Squeeze My Lemon

Intro
Muddy Waters - I Just Want To Make Love To You
Margaret Carter - I Want Plenty of Grease In My Frying Pan
The Hokum Boys - Caught Us Doin' It (Makin' Love)
Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song / Led Zeppelin II
Chick Willis - Stoop Down Baby [for Milo!]
Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends - Don't Come Too Soon
The White Stripes - Ball and Biscuit / Elephant

First Break

Hunter and Jenkins - Lollypop
Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket
Lil' Johnson and Black Bob - Press My Button, Ring My Bell
Moose Jackson with Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra - Big Ten-Inch Record
Ethel Waters - My Handy Man
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Take Your Time / Legend

Second Break

Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man
B.B. King - Sweet Little Angel (Live)
Tom Archia and His All-Stars - Fishin' Pole
Lil' Johnson - Get 'Em From the Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)
Cousin Joe with Pete Brown's Brooklyn Blue Blowers - Weddin' Day Blues
ZZ Top - She Loves My Automobile / Deguello
Floyd Dixon - Baby Let's Go Down To the Woods
Robert Johnson - They're Red Hot
The Hokum Boys - I Had To Give Up Gym (1929)

Third Break

Blind Boy Fuller - Sweet Honey Hole
The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man
Bo Carter - Don't Mash My Digger So Deep
Dinah Washington - Big Long Slidin' Thing
Bea Foote - Try and Get It
AC/DC - The Jack / High Voltage

Willie Dixon IS the Blues

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - An Inadvertent Tribute To Willie Dixon and His Unparalleled Contribution To the Blues
(read: Stickin' It To the Man)

Intro
Ethel Waters - My Handy Man / Ethel Waters 1926-1929
Alberta Hunter - You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark / Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 4
Willie Dixon - Weak Brain, Narrow Mind
Muddy Waters - You Need Love
Howlin' Wolf - Back Door Man
Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle
James Blood Ulmer - Little Red Rooster
Bo Diddley - You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover

First Break - 12:30 AM

The Black Crowes - Mellow Down Easy / Three Snakes and One Charm
Etta James - Nobody But You / Tell Mama
Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me / BBC Sessions
Chris Thile - If the Sea Was Whiskey / How To Grow a Woman From the Ground
Albert King - I'm Ready / Albert
Cactus - Evil / Restrictions
Howlin' Wolf - I Ain't Superstitious

Second Break - 1 AM

Buddy Guy - Let Me Love You Baby
Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing
Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby
Lowell Fulson - Tollin' Bells
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Bring It On Home
Little Walter - Dead Presidents
Willie Mabon - Seventh Son

Third Break - 1:30 AM

Jimmy Witherspoon - When the Lights Go Out
Buddy Guy - I Got a Strange Feeling
The Allman Brothers Band - You Don't Love Me / At Fillmore East

... And the Rockets' Red Glare

I know, I know ... I owe you guys two setlists. But I'm deliberately procrastinating because I'm about to go do what you should be doing: enjoying your holiday weekend!

Happy Independence Day, guys. Have a safe and happy holiday. We will return to the smokin' blues mayhem next week. Stay positive.

Shoeless

P.S. Be sure to scroll down and check out Blind John's awesome last post from our Nation's Capital ... only fitting on a holiday such as this one.