Nothing But The Blues

Blind Lemon Jefferson (Happy New Year Blues); Samuel James (A Sugar Smallhouse Valentine); Paul Cowley (Somethin' And Nothin'); Dennis Jones (Try Not To Lie); Mike Zito (Big Mouth); Bogus Ben Covington (I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop); Robert Shaw (Groceries On My Shelf); Z.Z. Hill (Down Home Blues); Z.Z. Hill Jr. (Down Home Girl); Cleo Gibson (I've Got Ford Movements In My Hips); Springback James (Poor Coal Passer); Elijah Jones (Mean Actin' Mama); Bo Diddley (Who Do You Love); Luther Allison (Low Down And Dirty); Jeff Healey (I'm Ready); Buddy Whittington (Every Goodbye Ain't Gone).

Joe Bonamassa (Lonesome Road Blues); Homemade Jamz Blues Band (In The Wind); Donna Greene and The Roadhouse Daddies (A Girl's Gotta Have A Little Pleasure); Big Joe Duskin (Beer Drinking Woman); Speckled Red (Going Down Slow); Texas Alexander (Range In My Kitchen); Robert Johnson (Come On In My Kitchen); Tab Benoit, Debbie Davies and Kenny Neal (Luberta); Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup (Rock Me Mama); Lil' Son Jackson (Gambling Blues); Edward Thompson (Showers Of Rain Blues); Tom Dickson (Labor Blues); Matt Schofield (War We Wage); Albert Castiglia (Bad Year Blues).

Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson (Christmas Date Boogie); Lowell Fulson (Lonesome Christmas (Part 1)); Smokey Hogg (My Christmas Baby); Blind Lemon Jefferson (Christmas Eve Blues); Victoria Spivey (Christmas Morning Blues); B.B. King (Christmas Celebration); Albert King (Be On Your Merry Way); Freddie King (Christmas Tears); Sonny Boy Williamson (Christmas Morning Blues); Sonny Boy Williamson II (Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues); Michael Burks (Christmas Snow); Son Seals (Lonesome Christmas); Elzadie Robinson (The Santa Claus Crave); Alphabetical Four (Go Where I Send Thee); Kenny Neal (Christmas Time In The Country); Lonnie Brooks (Christmas On The Bayou); Tinsley Ellis (Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin').

Kirk Fletcher (Don't Go No Further); Taj Mahal (Leaving Trunk); Dupree 'n' McPhee (The Snow Is On The Ground); Blind Willie McTell (Cold Winter Day); Ratcliff Bailey (A Rough Couple Of Days); Hamilton Loomis (Best Worst Day); Sonny Boy Williamson II (Your Funeral My Trial); Howlin' Wolf (How Many More Years); J.B. Hutto (That's The Truth); J.B. Lenoir (Mojo Boogie); Albert Ammons (Shout For Joy); Pete Johnson (Pete's Blues No. 2); Jim Thompkins (Bedside Blues); Sister Rosetta Tharpe (I Want Jesus To Walk Around My Bedside); Junior Wells (Got My Mojo Working); Tab Benoit (One Foot In The Bayou).

Ricky Gene Hall and The Goods (Bad Is Bad); Billy Lavender (Bad Boy); Josh White (Silicosis Is Killing Me); Victoria Spivey (Dirty T.B. Blues); Storme (Something's Gotta Give); Bobby 'Blue' Bland (Farther Up The Road); Paul Cowley (Memphis Jug Blues); Memphis Jug Band (Stealin' Stealin'); Victor Wainwright and The Wildroots (School Of Hard Knocks); Garfield Akers (Dough Roller Blues); Jack Gowdlock (Rollin' Dough Blues); Freddie King (Same Old Blues); Sippie Wallace (A Jealous Woman Like Me); Bessie Smith (I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle); Samuel James (John Ross Said); Albert Collins (Master Charge).

Popa Chubby (Lookin' Back); Harry Manx (That Knowing Look Of Fate); Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie (Carry Me Away); Gren Bartley (Carry Her Safe); Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Trouble In Mind); Mississippi John Hurt (Trouble I Had All My Days); Sylvester Weaver (Devil Blues); Carey and Lurrie Bell (Low Down Dirty Shame); Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins (Snatch It And Grab It); Big Joe Williams and J.D. Short (Sweet Old Kokomo); Tommy Castro (If I Had A Nickel); Pinetop Perkins (Anna Lee); Black River Bluesman and The Croaking Lizard (Cardboard And Plastic); R.L. Burnside (See What My Buddy Done); Jonny Lang (Matchbox).

B.B. King (Better Not Look Down); Paul deLay Band (Who Will Be Next?); Sugar Blue (Shed No Tears); Willie Reed (Dreaming Blues); Oscar Woods (Lone Wolf Blues); Chris Smither (Don't Call Me Stranger); Tom Doughty (Hound Dog Blues); Bukka White (Bukka's Jitterbug Swing); Samuel James (Miss Noreen); Otis Taylor (Little Liza Jane); Blind Blake and Leola B. Wilson (Black Biting Bee Blues); Big Mama Thornton (Bumble Bee); Harmonica Red (A Room With A View); Tommy Johnson (Cool Drink Of Water Blues); Peetie Wheatstraw (Drinking Man Blues); Cry Baby and The Hoochie Coochie Boys (Gimme One More Shot).

Buddy Guy (Your Mind Is On Vacation); Eddie Boyd (Cool Kind Treatment); Louis Jordan (Nobody But Me); Paul Lamb and Johnny Dickinson (Hesitation Blues); Reverend Gary Davis (I Am The Light Of This World); Blind Boy Fuller (Corrine What Makes You Treat Me So?); James 'Boodle It' Wiggins (Corinne Corinna Blues); Bonnie Lee (Breakin' Up Somebody's Home); Teresa James and The Rhythm Tramps (In And Out Of Love); Sam Chatmon (Cold Blooded Murderer); Blind Willie McTell ( Scarey Day Blues); Watermelon Slim and The Workers (I've Got A Toothache); Sleepy John Estes (Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too); Jim Richter-Kimble and Gordon Bonham (Brownsville Blues); Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (Ain't That Just Like A Woman).

Muddy Waters (The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll (#2)); T-Model Ford (Sail On); Mia Vermillion (I'm Goint To Copyright Your Kisses); Donna Greene and The Roadhouse Daddies (Comes Love); Richard Ray Farrell (Let's Get Drunk Again); Lonnie Johnson (Fine Booze And Heavy Dues); Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes (Someday Baby); Schoolboy Cleve (Strange Letter Blues); Sean Taylor (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues); The R+B Bombers (Bad Behavior); Jay Gaunt (Queen Of The Tenderloin); Clifford Gibson (Sneaky Groundhog); Sonny Boy Williamson II (Fattening Frogs For Snakes); Mike Zito (39 Days); Lonnie Brooks (Two Headed Man); Shemekia Copeland (Born A Penny).

This week a Bullfrog Brown special, with an interview with guitarist Andres Roots and music from most of the band's CDs, plus tracks from John Hammond Jr, Black River Bluesman and Alaska Kalan.

Chris James and Patrick Rynn (Stop And Think About It); Eric Bibb (Dr. Shine); Samuel James (The Water's Always Changing, But The River...); Jimmy Rushing (Did You Ever); Big Joe Turner (Trouble In Mind); The Blues Overdrive (Out In The Country); Deborah Coleman (Bending Like A Willow Tree); Snooky Pryor and The Country Blues (Call The Doctor); T-Bone Walker (Go Back To The One You Love); Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King (The Pleasure Was All Mine); Hambone Willie Newbern (Way Down In Arkansas); Roosevelt Sykes (Fire Detective Blues); Big Mama Thornton (School Boy); Ian Siegal (Catch 22); Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Bryan Lee (Tina Marie).

Bernie Marsden (Steppin' In); Koko Taylor (Come To Mama); Donna Greene and The Roadhouse Daddies (Baby Get Lost); Eddie Shaw and The Wolf Gang (Sitting On Top Of The World); Mississippi Sheiks (West Jackson Blues); Corey Harris and Henry Butler (If You Let A Man Kick You Once); Big Boy Cleveland (Goin' To Leave You Blues); Lottie Kimbrough (Goin' Away Blues); Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes (Done Got Tired Of Tryin'); Skip James (Yola My Blues Away); Tinsley Ellis (A Quitter Never Wins); Bo Weavil Jackson (Some Scream High Yellow); Bessie Smith (The Yellow Dog Blues); Samuel James (Joe Fletcher's Blues); Michael Hill's Blues Mob (This Is My Job).

Hound Dog Taylor and The Houserockers (Dust My Broom); Moreland and Arbuckle (Gonna Send Ya Back To Georgia); Sonny Terry (Custard Pie Blues); Little Walter (Juke); Debbie Davies (24 Hour Fool); Susan Tedeschi (Just Won't Burn); Country Jim Bledsoe (Dial 110 Blues); Blind Lemon Jefferson (See That My Grave's Kept Clean); Albert King (Driving Wheel); Wynonie Harris (Here Comes The Blues); Victor Wainwright and The Wildroots (Long Way To Go); Louisiana Red and Little Victor's Juke Joint (Too Poor To Die); Delbert McClinton (Blues As Blues Can Get); Victoria Spivey (My Handy Man); Joe Bonamassa (Bridge To Better Days).

The Homemade Jamz Blues Band (I Got Blues For You); Candye Kane (Hey! Toughen Up!); Clifton Chenier (Louisiana Blues); Tab Benoit (When A Cajun Man Gets The Blues); Carl Martin (Farewell To You, Baby); Mance Lipscomb (Farewell); Doctor Clayton (Ain't Gonna Drink No More); Doctor Clayton's Buddy (Nappy Head Woman); Sunnyland Slim (Be Careful How You Vote); Freddie King (Living On The Highway); Matt Schofield (Woman Across The River); Tommy McClennan (I'm A Guitar King); Son House (Mississippi County Farm Blues); Maurice John Vaughn (I Want To Be Your Spy); Keb' Mo' (Perpetual Blues Machine); Zac Harmon (Keep The Blues Alive).

Trouble And Strife (I Got The Blues); Tas Cru (Grizzle N' Bone); Bobby Grant (Lonesome Atlanta Blues); King Solomon Hill (Down On My Bended Knee); Frank Frost (Got My Mojo Working); Cripple Clarence Lofton (Strut That Thing); Jabo Williams (Jab Blues); The R+B Bombers (Mr. G. Man); Jo Ann Kelly (Help Me Through The Day); Robert Pete Williams (Dyin' Soul); Blind Willie McTell and Curley Weaver (Lord Have Mercy If You Please); Ana Popovic (Blues For M); The Billy Walton Band (Distorted Views); Kokomo Arnold (Old Original Kokomo Blues); Michael Powers (You Got To Go Down).

Byther Smith (I Can't Understand You Baby); Lowell Fulson (Worry, Worry); Leroy Carr (Alabama Woman Blues); Scrapper Blackwell (Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog); B.B. King (Did You Ever Love A Woman); Curtis Salgado (20 Years Of B.B. King); Big Bill Morganfield (High Gas Prices); Simon McBride (Down To The River); Lewis Black (Gravel Camp Blues); Big Joe Williams and J.D. Short (Rocks And Gravel); Matt Schofield (What I Wanna Hear); George Hannah (Freakish Man Blues); Alice Moore (Black And Evil Blues); Jay Gaunt (Big Legged Woman); Andre Bisson (One More Gig).

Mike Zito (Dirty Blonde); Johnny Heartsman (Got To Find My Baby); Bullfrog Brown (Shadows); Blind Blake (Sun To Sun); Freddie Spruell (Tom Cat Blues); Jeff Healey (Whipping Post); Dave Riley and Bob Corritore (Jelly Roll King); Samuel James (Love And Mumbly-Peg); Lightnin' Slim (Lightnin' Blues); Mississippi Fred McDowell (Milk Cow Blues); Muddy Waters (I Feel Like Going Home); Otis Spann (Sometimes I Wonder); Raymond Barrow (Walking Blues); Dennis Jones (Kill The Pain); Janiva Magness (Eat The Lunch You Brought).

This week a Watermelon Slim special featuring tracks from his albums (including "Escape From The Chicken Coop") and clips from an interview conducted when he headlined the Cambridge Festival at the beginning of August.

Ronnie Baker Brooks (Half); Buddy Guy (Ninety Nine And One Half); Sonny Boy Williamson (Bring Another Half Pint); Roosevelt Sykes (Candy Man Blues); Reverend Gary Davis (Candy Man); Pete Haycock's True Blues (Midnight Hours); Blind Boy Fuller (Ten O'Clock Peeper); Skip James (Four O'Clock Blues); Matt 'Guitar' Murphy (Good Luck Charm); Lonnie Brooks (Brand New Mojo Hand); Memphis Minnie (Ain't Nobody Home But Me (take 1)); Sleepy John Estes (Drop Down Mama); Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five (Let The Good Times Roll); Jimmy Reed (Shame, Shame, Shame); Billy Boy Arnold (I Wish You Would); Hubert Sumlin (I'm Ready).

Robert Nighthawk (Dust My Broom); Omar and The Howlers (Boogie Man); Charley Patton (Mississippi Boweavil Blues); Doug Quattlebaum (You Is One Black Rat); Otis Rush (It's My Own Fault); J.D. Short (Fighting For Dear Old Uncle Sam); The Derek Trucks Band (Days Is Almost Gone); James Blood Ulmer (No Escape From The Blues); Eddie Vinson (Juice-Head Baby); Muddy Waters (Mannish Boy); Blind Willie McTell (A To Z Blues); Jimmy Yancey (Beezum Blues); Rusty Zinn (The Big Eye).