Nothing But The Blues

Memphis Slim (One Man's Mad); Sean Costello (I'm A Ram); Curtis Salgado (Nobody But You); Iron Mike Norton (Shake My Tree); Dudley Taft (Long Way Down (Left For Dead Pt. II)); Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup (That's All Right Mama); Swamp Dogg (Mama's Baby, Daddy's Maybe); John Lee Hooker & Albert Collins (Backstabbers); Willie West (I Sleep With The Blues); Arthur Gunter (She's Mine All Mine); Royal Southern Brotherhood (Left My Heart In Memphis); Shemekia Copeland (Dirty Water); Dani Wilde (Mississippi Kisses); Blind Boy Fuller (Get Your Yas Yas Out); 24 Pesos (Peace In The Valley); Soulstack (Desperate Times).

This week a Watermelon Slim special, with clips from an interview conducted in Leicester, UK, at the end of March plus tracks from Slim's first three albums -- Merry Airbrakes, Big Shoes To Fill and Up Close And Personal.

Ainslie's Vibes (If Only); ZZ Hill (Cheating In The Next Room); Little Milton (Room 244); Ollis Martin (Police And High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down); Charley Patton (High Sheriff Blues); Jerry 'Boogie' McCain (Steady); Jerry McCain & His Upstarts (Courtin' In A Cadillac); The Fabulous Thunderbirds (She's Tuff); Mumbo-Jumbo (Ask Myself); Otis Taylor (Prophet's Mission); Vernon Reid & Alvin Youngblood Hart (It's Alright); Johnny Shines (Glad Rags); Clifford Gibson (Jive Me Blues); Bumble Bee Slim (I Done Caught My Death Of Cold); Mance Lipscomb (Louise); Lauren Dove (I'm Only A Woman).

Anthony Gomes (Back To The Start); Willie Dixon (You Shook Me); Lil' Cliff & The Cliffhangers (Twenty Nine Ways (To My Baby's Door)); Richard Ray Farrell & Steve Guyger (Big Road Blues); Dupree 'n' McPhee (No Meat Blues); Watermelon Slim (They Call Me Watermelon Slim); Cherri & The Violators (Too Much); Son Henry Band (Love My Baby); Dave Keller (Steppin' Out); Oli Brown (Like A Feather); Howlin' Wolf (I'll Be Around); Little Willie John (All Around The World); Henry Cooper (Take It To Go); Stuart James Band (Changing Lanes); Freddie King (I'd Rather Be Blind).

Clare Free (Can't Slow Down); Tom Doughty (Nobody's Fault); Babajack (Som' These Days); Andy Poxon Band (I'll Sing The Blues); Suzanne & The Blues Church (Pay Day Loan); Sweet Papa Stovepipe (Mama's Angel Child); Papa Charlie Jackson (Gay Cattin'); Pristine (Whipping Post); Henry Butler (Mother-In-Law); James Booker (Amen); John Pippus (Tell Me Why); Suzie Vinnick (Save Me For Later); Big Joe Turner (Joe Turner Blues); Jimmy Rushing (The Blues I Like To Hear); Janiva Magness (Whoop And Holler); Mary Bridget Davies (Your Kinda Love).

Muddy Waters (Don't Go No Further); T-Bone Walker (She Had To Let Me Down); Johnny Winter (T-Bone Shuffle); Andrew D. Gordon (Boogie With Nicky); Wendy DeWitt & Kirk Harwood (Bass Key Boogie); Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers feat. JP. Soars (Feel The Heat); John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson (Sugar Mama Blues); Jazz Gillum (Reefer Head Woman); The Blues Band (Work Song); Microwave Dave & The Nukes (Alabama Saturday Night); Riot & The Blues Devils ($150 Hat); Leroy Carr (Truthful Blues); Peetie Wheatstraw (Weeping Willow Blues); L.R. Phoenix & Mr. Mo'Hell (Keep Your Hands Off Of My Woman); Ledfoot (Purgatory Road).

Elmore James (Dark And Dreary); State Of The Union (Darkness); Dave Arcari (Duncan & Brady); Simon McBride (Down To The Wire); Boy Green (A And B Blues); Bill Carlisle (Bell Clappin' Mama); Marquise Knox (Can A Young Man Play The Blues?) Sean Taylor (Western Intervention); Albert Collins (Give Me My Blues); Johnny Copeland (When The Rain Starts Fallin'); R.L. Burnside (Hard Time Killing Floor); Sammy Myers (Sleeping In The Ground); James Montgomery (The Oven Is On); David Alexander (Standing By A Lamp Post); John Oates Band (Mississippi Mile).

Jon Amor Blues Group (Holy Water); Miss Quincy (Love Me Like The Devil Does); Cherry Lee Mewis (Going Down (To Memphis Tennessee)); Fiddlin' John Carson (Don't Let Your Deal Go Down); Jazzbo Tommy & His Lowlanders (Blaze Face Cow); Danny Bryant's Redeye Band (My Baby's A Superstar); Louisiana Red (Sweet Blood Call); Louisiana Red & Little Victor's Juke Joint (I'm Getting Tired); Joe Callicott (Traveling Mama Blues); John-Alex Mason (Jitterbug Swing); WT Feaster (Juggling Dynamite); Mitch Laddie (Gettin' It Right); Ron Sayer Jr. (Your Pleasure, My Pain); Wynonie Harris (She's Gone With The Wind); Shawn Starski (Was It You).

Richie Rich & The Chi-Town Blues Band (Meaning Of The Blues); Blues Delight (Rock Island Line); Babajack (Gallows Pole); Jesse 'Babyface' Thomas (No Good Woman Blues); Willie Reed (All Worn Out And Dry Blues); Wendy DeWitt & Kirk Harwood (Gone); Niecie (The Other Side); Ray Bailey (Get Out Of Jail Free Card); Dave Riley & Bob Corritore (Let's Get Together); Buddy Guy (I've Got A Problem); K.C. Douglas (Lonely Blues); Joe Hill Louis (Tiger Man); Janiva Magness (Dirty Water); Bertha Henderson (with Blind Blake) (Lead Hearted Blues); Rosco Levee (97-3).

Cliff Stevens (I Get Evil); Doug MacLeod (Turkey Leg Woman); Bjørn Berge (Antipop); Carey & Lurrie Bell (When I Get Drunk); Sunnyland Slim (Chicago Jump); Joe Carter &  Sunnyland Slim (Sweet Home Chicago); Frank Blackfield (No Class Blues); Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (Louisian'); Hearfield (The Blues); Bluesmix (Well Well); Cannon's Jug Stompers (Viola Lee Blues); Memphis Jug Band (On The Road Again); Debbie Davies (Better Off With The Blues); The Mustangs (Second Chance).

Son Roberts (White Line); Blues Delight (Going Back To The Delta); Bluesfreak (Murder The Blues); Paul Lamb & Johnny Dickinson (Train Rolled In The Station); Crying Sam Collins (Jail House Blues); Big Joe Williams (Baby Please Don't Go); Joe Bonamassa (The Meaning Of The Blues); Big Maceo (Tuff Luck Blues); Little Mac (Times Are Getting Tougher); Rita Chiarelli (These Four Walls); Lincoln Durham (People Of The Land); Kris Pohlmann Band (Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide); Kelly Richey (Eyes Of A Woman); J.B. Lenoir (Eisenhower Blues); Matthew Curry & The Fury (Hear The Highway).

Magic Sam (All Your Love); Shari Puorto (Don't Mess With Me); Grainne Duffy (Please Take Care); Philipp Fankhauser (Down On Bending Knees); Mississippi Fred McDowell (Got A Letter This Morning); Sleepy John Estes (Your Best Friend's Gone); Ron Sorin (Gimme Dat Harp Boy); Pearl Handled Revolver (Head); Otis Rush (Homework); The Mannish Boys (Educated Ways); Albert Lee & Paul Williams (Water On My Fire); Debbie Bond (Nothing But The Blues); Jimmy Johnson (Country Preacher); Robert Lee McCoy (Friar's Point Blues); Levee Town (So Many Pages).

Joe Louis Walker (I'm On To You); Matt Andersen (Heartbreaker); Suzie Vinnick (Queen Bee); Monkeyjunk (Small Time Evil) The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer (Chevrolet) Freddie Brown (Raised In The Alley Blues) Robert Shaw (Put Me In The Alley); Johnny Otis, His Drums & Orchestra (Midnight In The Barrelhouse); Etta James & The Peaches (The Wallflower); Etta James (I Would Rather Go Blind); Etta James (Trust Yourself); Bare Bones Boogie Band (Second-Hand Hand-Me-Down); Blind Willie McTell (God Don't Like It); Tampa Red & Georgia Tom (Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here); Jimmy Bowskill (Broke Down Engine).

The Motives feat. Matt Taylor (Cookie Jar); T-Bone Walker (I Wish You Were Mine); Freddie King (Me And My Guitar); Mary Flower (Goin' To Sit Down By The River); Reverend Gary Davis (Runnin' To The Judgement); Hubert Sumlin (Play It Cool); Jenny Pope (Rent Man Blues); Bessie Smith (House Rent Blues); Robert Cray (Smoking Gun); Samantha Fish (Otherside Of The Bottle); Texas Alexander (Work Ox Blues); Memphis Minnie (Sylvester And His Mule Blues); Matthew Curry & The Fury (New York Blues); Al Stone (Walkin' Cane); John Pippus and Karina Morin (One Shot).

Thorbjørn Risager (All Your Dollars); Bill Johnson (Worked To Death); Joe Louis Walker (Prisoner Of Misery); Willie Dixon (Big Leg Women); Little Walter (Big Leg Mama); Ry Cooder (John Lee Hooker For President); Memphis Slim (Blues Everywhere); Clare Free (Dust And Bones); Black Ivory King (The Flying Crow); Kelly Joe Phelps (The Black Crow Keeps Flying); Johnny Winter (Dust My Broom); Oscar Woods (Low Life Blues); Lightnin' Hopkins (Goin' To Galveston); Lane Hardin (Hard Time Blues); Eddie Boyd (Hard Time Getting Started); Suzie Vinnick (Quit Your Lowdown Ways).

Son Roberts (Wind Blows In); The Tonemasters (Goin' With The Flow); Kevin Mark (Cuttin' Loose); Etta James (Dance With Me, Henry); B.B. King (Dance With Me); Muddy Waters (Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You); Elder A. Johnson (God Don't Like It); Guitar Not So Slim (I Wanna); Delbert McClinton (Under Suspicion); The Killer Blues Band (Hang My Head And Cry); Lisa Mills (The Truth); EG Kight (Somewhere Down Deep); Keb' Mo' & Corey Harris (Sweet Home Chicago); Big Joe Williams & J.D. Short (Nobody Knows Chicago); The Andy Poxon Band (Stop); Chris Murphy (Hold It Right There).

Buddy Whittington (The Put On Song); Karen Lovely (Other Plans); Kirsten Thien (Taxi Love); Richard Ray Farrell (Ol' Man Blues); Bert Deivert (State Street Pimp); Watermelon Slim & Super Chikan (Moonshine); Lincoln Durham (Last Red Dawn); Matthew Curry & The Fury (High Water Everywhere); John Pippus (Preachin' Blues); L.R. Phoenix (Death); Tab Benoit (Next To Me); Matt Andersen (Feel Like Going Home); Shaun Murphy (Mississippi Water); Andres Roots (Flowers); Tedeschi Trucks Band (Don't Let Me Slide).

Carey Bell (Christmas Train); Eddie C. Campbell (Santa's Messin' With The Kid); Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials (I'm Your Santa); Floyd Dixon (Empty Stocking Blues); Roosevelt Sykes (Let Me Hang My Stocking In Your Christmas Tree); B.B. King (Christmas Comes But Once A Year); Grady Champion (Blues On Christmas); Koko Taylor (Merry, Merry Christmas); Little Charlie & The Nightcats (It's Christmas Time Again (Spend, Spend, Spend)); Tommy Castro with Marcia Ball (Christmas Everyday); Bumble Bee Slim (Christmas And No Santa Claus); Titus Turner (Christmas Morning Blues); Lonnie Brooks (All I Want For Christmas); John Lee Hooker (Blues For Christmas); Hop Wilson & His Buddies (Merry Christmas Darling (Take 1)); Jimmy Witherspoon (How I Hate To See Xmas Come Around).

Cash Box Kings (Holler And Stomp); Eric Clapton (Last Fair Deal Gone Down); Something Blue (They're Red Hot); Joel DaSilva & The Midnight Howl (Hangin' On); Lincoln Durham (Living This Hard); Lightnin' Slim (I Can't Live Happy); R. Green & Turner (Central Avenue Blues); Luther Allison (Will It Ever Change?); Sena Ehrhardt (On The Clock); Will Johns (Coming Home); Nolan Welsh (The Bridewell Blues); Sippie Wallace (Dead Drunk Blues); Woody & The Bluepackers (A Fistful Of Nothing); Big Joe Turner (Sun Risin' Blues); Bobby Messano (That's Why I Don't Sing The Blues); Kelly Richey (Leave The Blues Behind).

Sterling Koch (Driving Wheel); Roosevelt Sykes (He's Just A Gravy Train); Pine Top Smith (Pine Top's Blues); Howlin' Wolf (Tail Dragger); Hubert Sumlin & The Howlin' Wolf Band with Kenny Wayne Shepherd (Sittin' On Top Of The World); Hubert Sumlin (This Is The End, Little Girl); Little G Weevil (Highway 78); Charley Patton (I'm Going Home); Tom Doughty (Some These Days); Priscilla's Revenge (Where Did We Go Wrong); Hambone Willie Newbern (Shelby County Workhouse Blues); Lead Belly (The Red Cross Store Blues); The Andy Poxon Band (Run Of Bad Luck); Matthew Curry & The Fury (If I Don't Got You); Blind Willie McTell (Three Women Blues); Summer & The Sinners (Big Boss Man).