Spook-tacular

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - Do Zombies Get the Blues?

HAPPY EARLY HALLOWEEN FROM THE CROSSROADS! We had a blast last night and we hope you did, too. Here's the set:

Intro
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You / Blues Shouter
Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash / The Original Monster Mash
Sheb Wooley - Purple People Eater / Elvira's Vinyl Macabre: Oldies but Ghoulies
Clarence Brewer - Halloween Blues / King Clarentz
B.B. King - Haunted House / One Kind Favor
Muddy Waters - Caldonia / The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album [Cliff's Pick]

First Break

Buddy Guy - I Got a Strange Feeling / Stone Crazy
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited / Highway 61 Revisited
Bobby "Blue" Bland - St. James Infirmary / Standing Pat: The St. James Infirmary Blues Appendix
Carolina Slim - Ain't It Sad / Carolina Slim
Ozella Jones - I Been a Bad, Bad Girl (Prisoner Blues) / Field Recordings, Vol. 7: Florida
Mance Lipscomb - Joe Turner Killed a Man / You Got To Reap What You Sow
Magic Slim - Something More / Highway Is My Home
Harmonica Frank Floyd - Sitting On Top of the World / The Missing Link

Second Break

Erja Lyyntinen - Dreamland Blues / Dreamland Blues
Burning Plague - A .38 / Burning Plague
Boogie Woogie Red - Blues For My Baby / Detroit After Hours, Vol. 1
Johnny Winter - Mean Town Blues / The Progressive Blues Experiment [for Steve]
Dustin Kensrue - I Believe / Please Come Home [from Blind John to Laine]
Eddie "The Chief" Clearwater - Walking Through the Park / West Side Strut

Third Break

Elvin Bishop - Yonder's Wall / The Blues Rolls On
Jeff Beck Group - I Ain't Superstitious / Truth [for the "Jeff Beck Lover" guy]
Arelean Brown - I Love My Man / Meat and Gravy From Bea and Baby
Whispering Smith - I Know You Don't Love Me / Over Easy
Fenton Robinson - Checking On My Woman / Somebody Loan Me a Dime
Pink Floyd - Just Another Twelve Bar / Smoking Blues

By the time we next meet at the Crossroads, the presidential polls will have closed ... so this is our charge to you: whether male or female, black or white, young or old, conservative or liberal, PLEASE vote. Don't get caught up in the politics (no pun intended) or the media hype ... just do some research, and vote for someone you like. It's worth standing in line, I promise. It's time for this great country of ours to come together.

Until next week ... stay positive.

Shoeless

Mildly Wild (or Wildly Mild)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - Things Are Not Always What They Seem

I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to get to play a thrash metal band on a blues show. Here at the Crossroads, we're breaking down barriers every week ... haha. Here's the set:

Intro
Fenton Robinson - Texas Flood / Somebody Loan Me a Dime
Robert Cray - Sleeping In the Ground / Who's Been Talkin'?
Slim Harpo - Blues Hang-over / I'm a King Bee: The Early Swamp Blues Classics
Eddie Boyd - Blue Monday Blues / Meat and Gravy From Bea and Baby
Danny Glover - Goin' Down Slow / Honeydripper (OST)
The Allman Brothers Band - Jelly Jelly / Brothers and Sisters [Cliff's Pick]

First Break

Son Seals - Last Night / Live and Burning
Leadbelly - What Can I Do To Change Your Mind? / Recorded In Concert, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, June 15, 1949
Albert King - Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven / Lovejoy
Freddie King - Help Me Through the Day / The Best of Freddie King
Bobby "Blue" Bland - Stormy Monday Blues / Ask Me 'Bout Nothing (But the Blues) [for Elrod]
Wyonie Harris - I Gotta Lyin' Woman / Around the Clock Blues
Blind Boy Fuller - I Want Some of Your Pie / Get Your Ya Yas Out

Second Break

Mance Lipscomb - Baby Don't You Lay It On Me / You'll Never Find Another Man Like Mance
Willie Williams - .38 Woman / Meat and Gravy From Bea and Baby
Burning Plague - Life Is Nonsense / Burning Plague
Chick Willis - Something To Remember You By / Stoop Down Baby ... Let Your Daddy See
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Black Snake Moan / Black Snake Moan
The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down (Live on BBC Radio 1, Evening Session) / B-Sides Collection

Third Break

Peppermint Harris - Sinner's Prayer / Being Black Twice
Buster Benton - Money Is the Name of the Game / Jewel Spotlights the Blues, Volume 2
L.C. McKinley - Sharpest Man In Town / "Nit Wit" Single (1959)
Bob "Catfish" Hodge - Tradition / Get Down
Muddy Waters - She's Nineteen Years Old / The Anthology 1947-1972
Little Milton - Losin' Hand / Welcome To the Club
Elvis Presley - Baby What You Want Me To Do (Live) / Live in Las Vegas
GWAR - Don't Need a Man / Carnival of Chaos [for Jeff ... AWESOME]

(Yes, you read that correctly ... GWAR. As in these guys:)















Hope you enjoyed yourselves. Always a pleasure spending time with you ladies and gents. Until next week ... stay positive.

Shoeless

To Our Pappy

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - Saying Goodbye (Both To a Legend and the Recession Blues)

I hadn't originally intended the exact set that was played last night, for obvious reasons. The only "theme" I had at all was playing a few songs about money and/or the economy, and that wasn't even enough to fill the whole first set; therefore, we were just playing the blues after that. Not long before we went on the air, however, Scarlett O'Sara gave wind of the passing of Pappy Mahan's pappy, and I figured that as loyal as he's been to the Crossroads, we should be loyal right back. Almost the entire third set is dedicated to Grandpappy Mahan, lover of the hillbilly blues. Here's the set:

Intro
Bob "Catfish" Hodge - 300-Pound Fat Mama / Get Down
The White Stripes - Little Room / White Blood Cells
B.B. King - Recession Blues / King of the Blues
Buddy Guy - Money / A Man and the Blues
Furry Lewis and Frank Stokes - I Will Turn Your Money Green / Beale Street Blues
Jimmy Cotton - There Must Be a Panic On / Meat and Gravy From Bea and Baby
Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, and Allison Krauss - Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby / O Brother, Where Art Thou? OST
Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign / Born Under a Bad Sign [Cliff's Pick]

First Break

Ike and Tina Turner - I Smell Trouble (Live) / Sing the Blues
Leadbelly - Alberta / Alabama Bound
Otha Turner - Station Blues / From Senegal To Senatobia
Fenton Robinson - Directly From My Heart To You / Somebody Loan Me a Dime
AC/DC - Go Down / Let There Be Rock

Second Break

[The following six tracks are from the compilation Hillbilly Blues and are dedicated to the late, great Grandpappy Mahan ... rest in peace, brother.]
Norman Phelps' Virginia Rounders - Atlanta Blues
Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster - Times Ain't Like They Used To Be
Jess Hillard - Doggone Them Blues
Nations Brothers - Bankhead Blues
Shelton Brothers with Curly Fox - I'm Sitting On Top of the World
Hartman's Heart Breakers - Give It To Me, Daddy
---------------------------------------------
Elvis Presley - Reconsider Baby / Reconsider Baby
Singin' Sam - My Story / Meat and Gravy From Bea and Baby
Bo Diddley - I Am Looking For a Woman / Bo Diddley's a Roadrunner

Third Break

Elmo Williams and Hezekiah Early - Hoopin' and Hollerin' / Takes One To Know One
Blues Queen Sylvia - Can't Get Along / Midnight Baby
Cream - Spoonful (Live at the Fillmore) / Wheels of Fire

Thanks for all the calls this week! By the way, the beverage I couldn't mention on-air was a Dr. Pepper (of the 52 0z. fountain variety from QuikTrip) ... fun fact. If you take one thing away from this week's show, let it be us reminding you to enjoy life while you've got it - you never know when your show will end. Rest in peace, Grandpappy

Until next week, stay positive.

Shoeless

The Bird's the Word

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - "Was that the Black Lips you just played ... ?"

I'll keep it brief: thanks for letting us have so much fun week in and week out. We love you guys. Here's the set:

Intro
The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird / Surfin' Bird
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met the Blues / First Time I Met the Blues
Algia Mae Hinton - Going Down This Road / Honey Babe
Big Joe Williams - Stack O' Dollars / Baby Please Don't Go
Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan - Ask Me No Questions / In Session [Cliff's Pick]
Otis Spann - I Came From Clarksdale / The Blues of Otis Spann

First Break

The Black Keys - The Breaks/Run Me Down / The Big Come Up [for Million Mile Matt]
Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp / Ragtime Texas: Complete Recorded Works 1927 to 1929
The Allman Brothers Band - It's Not My Cross To Bear / The Allman Brothers Band [from Elrod to Stephanie]
Robert Cray - If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin' / Who's Been Talkin' [for Chuck]
Muddy Waters - The Same Thing / Electric Mud

Second Break

Brownie McGhee - Million Lonesome Women / The Complete Brownie McGhee
Steppenwolf - Hoochie Coochie Man / Steppenwolf
Mercy Dee Walton - After the Fight / A Pity and a Shame
Howlin' Wolf - Streamline Woman / The Wolf
Janis Joplin - Maybe / Greatest Hits (1973) [for Pappy Mahan]
Sonny Boy Williamson - Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide / The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson
Victoria Spivey - Dirty TB Blues / Moaning the Blues
Five Horse Johnson - Hollerin' / The No. 6 Dance

Third Break

Peg Leg Howell - Broke and Hungry Blues
The White Stripes - Sugar Never Tasted So Good / The White Stripes
Whispering Smith - Mojo Hand / Over Easy
John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat - Whiskey & Wimmin /Hooker 'n Heat
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Red House (Extended Version) / Blues Giants: The Essential Songbook

Send us your requests for next week! With the cold coming on, it's high time for the blues. Until we meet again at the Crossroads, my friends, stay positive.

Shoeless

Wingin' It

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - Improv Night (and not in the good, funny comedy club way ...)

The great irony of technology is that, in being something man has created to be perfect, it is naturally full of flaws. I suppose that, too, is the irony of logic. Nevertheless, technology's demons reared their ugly heads on us last night and we had to roll with the punches. I won't say that I've officially un-endorsed iTunes, but I will be more circumspect from here onward in terms of my software usage. Thank goodness for other free, open-source media players ... I don't know what we would've done without backup. I'm taking this as something cosmic: I've used technology as a crutch for far too long. perhaps it's time to re-learn the thrill of enjoying music the way it's always been done: NATURALLY. [HINT: BUY VINYL BUY VINYL BUY VINYL BUY VINYL BUY VINYL BUY VINYL] Anyway, my apologies for the diatribe. Here's the set:

Intro
Hound Dog Taylor - The Sun Is Shining / Genuine Houserocking Music
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - I Trusted You (But You Double-Crossed Me) / Cherry Red Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood / Texas Flood [for Murphy]
John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat - Burning Hell / Hooker 'n Heat
Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A-Comin' (Acoustic) / Blues [Cliff's Pick]
Seasick Steve and the Level Devils - Fallen off a Rock / Dog House Music

First Break

Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You / Led Zeppelin III
Albert Collins - When the Welfare Turns Its Back / Ice Pickin'
[the rest of this set is by request, for Uncle Milo]:
Freddie King - Big Legged Woman / King of the Blues
Jesse Fuller - Brownskin Girl I Got My Eye On You / San Francisco Blues
T-Model Ford - Look What All You Got / You Better Keep Still

Second Break

Koko Taylor - What Came First, The Egg or the Hen? / What It Takes: The Chess Years [for Mahan]
The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out (Live at the Fillmore) / Eat a Peach [for Elron]
Albert King - You Threw Your Love on Me Too Strong / Years Gone By
Johnny Jenkins - Rollin' Stone (feat. Duane Allman) / Ton-Ton Macoute!
ZZ Top - Apologies To Pearly / Rio Grande Mud
Charlie Sayles - Baby You Done Wrecked My Life / The Raw Harmonica Blues

Third Break

Byther Smith - Tell Me How You Like It / Tell Me How You Like It
Buddy Guy, Junior Mance, and Junior Wells - Rock Me Mama / Buddy and the Juniors
Hot Shot Willie (Blind Willie McTell) - Searching the Desert For the Blues / Statesboro Blues
The Marshall Tucker Band - Everyday I Have the Blues (Live*) / The Marshall Tucker Band (Reissue)
[*Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, September 26, 1973 - Opening for the Allman Brothers]

Thanks for bearing with us! We'll be back 100% ready to rock next week ... I promise. Until then, stay positive.

Shoeless