Today we review best new blues rock from all around the world. From Sweden we have new tunes from Black River Delta. From UK, Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean are back with the new record as Ida Mae. Also from UK, we check out the new artist Kat Eaton. From Italy, we introduce Elli De Mon. David Bowie’s collaborator Earl Slick has cool new tunes as well. And from Tennessee, the home country of blues rock, we check out Yola from Nashville and from Memphis area, Cedric Burnside (grandson on RL Burnside and son of Calvin Jackson). Finally, we check out Los Lobos in a Don Juan Mancha standard from their newest cover album.
Sastick Steve – Moon Going Down;
Black River Delta – Train Back Home;
Cedric Burnside – What Makes Me Think;
RL Burnside – Long Haired Doney_ Poor Boy Long Way From Home;
Black Keys – Poor Boy A Long Way From Home;
Cream – Tales Of Brave Ulysses;
Elli De Mon – Prove It on Me Blues;
Ida Mae – Click Click Domino (feat; Marcus King);
Veronica Lewis – is you is my baby;
Joyann Parker – Predator;
Kat Eaton – Need a New Way to Say I Love You;
Yola – Break The Bough;
Barrett Strong – Misery;
Los Lobos – Misery;
Earl Slick – Far Away;
Danny Kroha – Up Above My Head.
Yawpers are back with their third album and so is Eamon McGrath, this time with the newest single. We dig into Memphis neo-traditionalists, Luther Dickinson collaborates with Amy Helm, Amy LaVere, Sharde Thomas and the Como Mamas as Sisters of the Strawberry Moon and another four of his friends, Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla and Allison Russell, perform together as Our Native Daughters. Also down south, our good friend Kim Simpson has a new album and we check out Helen Rose for the first time in our show. Veteran and legendary musician who played with Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Todd Rundgren, Hunt Sales is back in a new project. Finally, Scientists visited our town and we check out their new song.
Today we being with the North Carolina band Mount Moriah lead by Heather McEntire and a tune from their latest album How To Dance. Then we introduce the work of Italian singer songwriter Sara Ardizzioni who goes by the name of Dagger Moth. We also check out the new tune from Cleveland’s own Archie and The Bunkers and a new one from Zagreb’s Erotic Biljan and His Heretics. We close things off with Shooter Jennings (son of Waylon) and Marilyn Manson, collaborating on the David Bowie cover Cat People.
Here we are in our first regular show in 2016. We all heard the bad news – David Bowie passed away and we pay respects today. A less covered exit also happened recently – Brett Smiley, an American boy in the late 1970s who tried to become a glam rock star a-la Bowie, but failed. Still, he left a great album which only came out about ten years ago. Carson Van Osten also passed away. He is from Nazz, a legendary rock band formed by Todd Rundgren in the 60s.
Today we say last goodbye to two important rock’n’roll musicians. Ray Manzarek played keyboards in The Doors and passed away on May 20th from bile duct cancer. Trevor Bolder, bass player in David Bowie’s Spiders from Mars and Uriah Heep passed away on May 21st from pancreatic cancer. Both will be remembered for their big contributions to the world of music. We also ding some time to hear some new music. Oblivians from Memphis have a new record out called Desperation and they are back together in the studio for the first time after 15 years. Mark E. Smith continues to toil with The Fall and we sample the new album called Re-Mit. We introduce Dan Kelly, nephew of Paul Kelly, with his cover of Paul’s song Crosstown and a song in our Live in Cleveland segment.