Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - Mercredi Gras
Intro
Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone / Muddy Waters: The Essential Collection
Clifton Chenier - Jambalaya / Frenchin' the Blues
Blind Blake - Night and Day Blues / 16 Classic Blues Songs From the 1920s, Vol. 6 (V/A)
Big John Wrencher - Telephone Blues / Big John's Boogie Plus
Pabst Blue Ribbon Jingle (1958)
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Boy Friend Blues / Rock Me Mama
First Break
James Brown - It's a Man's Man's Man's World / 20 All-Time Greatest Hits!
Champion Jack Dupree - Bad Health Blues / Junker's Blues
Steppenwolf - Hoochie Coochie Man / Steppenwolf
Jimmy Reed - Take Out Some Insurance / You Don't Have To Go
Big Bill Broonzy - Out With the Wrong Woman / Whiskey & Good Time Blues
Big Joe Turner - I Got a Gal For Every Day In the Week / Roll 'Em
The Allman Brothers Band - Pony Boy / Brothers and Sisters [for Elrod]
Second Break
Booker T. Laury - Early In the Morning / Blues Routes (V/A)
B.B. King - Waiting For Your Call / One Kind Favor [for Milo, because it's the 5th track on the album]
Leroy Washington - Wild Cherry / Best of Excello, Vol. 1: Sound of the Swamp (V/A)
Big Maceo - Without You My Life Don't Mean a Thing / Worried Life Blues
Johnny Winter - Highway 61 Revisited / Second Winter
Hammie Nixon - New York City Blues / This Is the Blues Harmonica (V/A)
Third Break
Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues In the Bottle / Blues In the Bottle [Cliff's Pick]
Lavina Turner - How Can I Be Your Sweet Mamma When You Are Daddy To Someone Else? / Prewar Blues Vol. 2 (V/A)
Homesick James and Snooky Pryor - No More Loving / Sad & Lonesome
Delilah Why - How Was I / Steps On It
Dock Boggs - Will Sweethearts Know Each Other There? / Country Blues (1927-1929)
Son House - Levee Camp Moan / The Original Delta Blues
Stay positive.
Shoeless
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Beads, Booze, and Blues
Thursday, February 19, 2009
No Love Lost
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - The Post-Valentine's Day Massacre
We had (and still have) lots of leftovers from last week's beauty of a Love/Infidelity Day show. Therefore, we created this week's show according to the following formula:
Yeah ... pretty much. Turns out Microsoft Word 2007 has a handy formula function, which helps greatly. Crossroads is rocket science, after all. Here's' the set:
Intro
Led Zeppelin - Since I'm Been Loving You / Led Zeppelin III [for Magnolia <3]
Sunnyland Slim - Workin' Two Jobs / Be Careful How You Vote
Freddie King - Can't Trust Your Neighbor / King of the Blues
R.L. Burnside - Sat Down On My Bed and Cried / My Black Name A-Ringin'
Truth and Janey - Straight Eight Pontiac / No Rest For the Wicked
The Black Ace - No Good Woman / I'm the Boss Card In Your Hand
First Break
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Ain't That Just Like a Woman / Just Got Lucky
Bobby "Blue" Bland - Somewhere Between Right and Wrong / Years of Tears [for Ellen]
Furry Lewis and Frank Stokes - Mistreatin' Mama / Beale Street Blues
Slim Barton - Wicked Treatin' Blues / Georgia Blues 1928-1933
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Crow Jane / Murder Ballads
Second Break
Roy Book Binder - Palm Trees Shakin' In the Night / Polk City Ramble
Jethro Tull - Stormy Monday / This Was ... Jethro Tull [for Josh]
Coot Venson - Thinkin' About Your Apples / Down Home Harp (V/A Testament Records)
John Mooney - Take a Walk Around the Corner / Prime Chops, Vol. 2 (V/A Blind Pig Records)
Moose John - Wrong Doin' Woman / Dig These Blues: The Legendary Dig Masters (V/A)
Billy Gayles - I'm Tired of Being Dogged Around / Rhythm Rockin' Blues: Ike Turner and His Kings of Rhythm (V/A)
T-Bone Walker - Evil-Hearted Woman / The Complete Imperial Recordings 1940-1954
Tom Waits - Lucinda / Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards
Third Break
Albert King and Otis Rush - Murder / Door To Door
Leadbelly - Black Betty / Leadbelly's Last Sessions [for Tyler]
The Black Keys - I Cry Alone / thickfreakness
Boogaloo Ames - After Hours / From Mississippi To Chicago (V/A)
Willie Cobbs - Reconsider Baby / Jukin'
Bongzilla - Champagne and Reefer / Amerijuanican
March and April are big months for the Crossroads ... we have a theme that runs through each month. You're not even ready, we promise. Send us your requests! Until next week, as always, stay positive.
Shoeless
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
No Love, No Shoes, No Problems
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - The Obligatory Valentine's Day Show In the Genre That Hates Love the Most of Them All (Oh, and the Return of Shoeless Kay Staps)
Boy, was this ever a fun one.
Intro
Valentine's Day Promo
Bobby "Blue" Bland - How Does a Cheatin' Woman Feel? / Ask Me 'Bout Nothin' (But the Blues)
Tom Waits - Lie To Me / Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards
Slim Green and the Cats From Fresno - My Woman Done Quit Me / Johnny Otis Presents: Some Old Folks' Boogie (V/A)
Sugarcane and His Violin - Elim Stole My Baby (Boo Hoo) / Dig These Blues: The Legendary Dig Masters (V/A)
Alberta Hunter - Downhearted Blues / Classic Alberta Hunter: Thirties [for Uncle Milo]
B.B. King - How Blue Can You Get? / Live In Cook County Jail [Cliff's Pick]
First Break
Howlin' Wolf - Back Door Man / I Am the Blues
ZZ Top - Just Got Back From Baby's / ZZ Top's First Album
Blind Willie McTell - Three Women Blues / Statesboro Blues
John Lee Hooker - Four Women In My Life / King of the Boogie
Pink Anderson - Thousand Woman Blues / Carolina Bluesman, Vol. 1
Brownie McGhee - Million Lonesome Women / The Story of the Blues (V/A)
Second Break
The Allman Brothers Band - Black Hearted Woman / The Allman Brothers Band [for Elrod]
Lightnin' Hopkins - I've Been Buked and Scorned / Lightnin' Hopkins (Everest Records)
The Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now / 12 x 5 [for Bo from Covington]
Magic Slim and the Teardrops - Why Does a Woman Treat a Good Man So Bad? / Raw Magic [for Pappy Mahan]
Fats Domino - Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except Me and My Monkey) / Sweet Patootie: The Complete Reprise Recordings [for Uncle Milo]
Dock Boggs - Pretty Polly / Country Blues: The Complete Early Recordings of Dock Boggs
Every Time I Die - I Used To Love Her / Bring You To Your Knees: A Tribute To Guns 'n Roses
Third Break
Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - Men Don't Forget Your Wives For Your Sweethearts / The Complete Recorded Works
Ike and Tina Turner - Three o'Clock In the Morning Blues / Ike and Tina Turner Sing the Blues
Junior Kimbrough - Tramp / God Knows I Tried
T-Bone Walker - She's the No-Sleepin'est Woman / The Complete Recordings 1940-1954
Lonnie Johnson - Let All Married Women Alone / The Original Guitar Wizard
The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post / The Allman Brothers Band [for Pappy Mahan]
You guys made it great to be back. More great stuff headed your way in the coming weeks ... stick around! Until next week, stay positive.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Solo Flytes
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - Blind John Goes It Alone Again / As Free As a Bird
This week we mourned the passing of one of the finest blues pianists never to be truly recognized as such. With that, Shoeless's favorite band is down one more original member, with only two surviving, and only one remaining in the current touring lineup. Rest in peace, Billy Powell ... Freebird will never sound the same without you.
Intro
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird (Live at the Fox) / One More From the Road
Willie Dixon and the Big Three Trio - 88 Boogie / The Big Three Trio
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - She Put the Wammee On Me / Screamin' the Blues
First Break
Robert Junior Lockwood - Dust My Broom / Delta Crossroads [for Jason of STONERIDER]
Howlin' Wolf - Little Red Rooster / The London Sessions
Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A-Comin' (Acoustic) / Blues [by request]
Lightnin' Hopkins - Hello Central (Give Me Central) / Hello Central: The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins
Fats Domino - What a Price / Be My Guest
Blind Boy Fuller - Big Leg Woman Gets My Pay / East Coast Piedmont Style
B.B. King - I've Always Been Lonely / Take It Home
Second Break
ZZ Top - Blue Jean Blues / Fandango!
Janis Joplin - One Good Man / I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
Louisiana Red - Freight Train/Where Is My Friend? / Louisiana Red Sings the Blues
Buddy Guy - Don't Answer the Door / Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1979
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Born Blind / Nine Below Zero
Third Break
Bobby "Blue" Bland - Fever / Ask Me 'Bout Nothing (But the Blues)
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Guess Who / Blues Shouter
Robert Nighthawk and Forrest City Joe - Lonesome Day Blues / Robert Nighthawk and Forrest City Joe
Muddy Waters - I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love / Muddy Waters: The Essential Blues Collection
Mance Lipscomb - Alabama Jubilee / Songster
Little Richard - Keep-a Knockin' / Long Tall Sally
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me the Breeze / Second Helping [for the "Jeff Beck Guy"]
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Mean Old Frisco Blues / Rock Me Mama
William Norris Powell
June 3, 1952 - January 28, 2009