Got some roadhouse blues for ya…..Sunday Wilde, Mike Goudreau, Tullie Brae, Crystal Shawanda, Fruteland Jackson….and many more. Just click on the link or type in http://www.bluesmusicfan.com, grab your favorite drink or smoke, and enjoy the tunes from 12-2 pm EST today, Tuesday, April 28th!
Crystal Shawanda is an indigenous Canadian who grew up on the Wikwemikong reserve on an island in Ontario, Canada. Blessed with a stellar voice that has catapulted her to the forefront of the contemporary blues scene, Crystal now lives in Nashville with her record producer and co-writer husband Dewayne Strobel. The new album CHURCH HOUSE BLUES is her second for True North Records and an incredible followup to Voodoo Woman that I reviewed back in 2018. (The link in blue is to the album on Spotify.)
Church House Blues is part of her continuing evolution from country music to the blues. She initially came to Nashville as a country singer back in 2007 for RCA Records and recorded a Billboard top 20 country hit for them. But, as you can clearly hear when you listen to her, her forte and her heart belong to the blues. She left RCA a couple of years after the hit single and has been focused primarily on the blues ever since.
The first single from the new album is WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE, a pretty ballad that highlights that awesome voice which has both elements of Koko Taylor and Janis Joplin as well as a delicious hint of Patsy Cline. The emotion she invokes as she sings will draw you in and then grab your soul. And there is no better showcase for that than BIGGER THAN THE BLUES and EVIL MEMORY. Another favorite of mine is NEW ORLEANS IS SINKING with its driving clap rhythm and some haunting harmonica. Additionally I enjoyed MOVE ME. HEY LOVE, BLAME IT ON THE SUGAR, and the title cut. Crystal sings my favorite sensual love song of the year so far with I CAN’T TAKE IT….ya gotta give it a listen!!
Crystal draws on her life and the blues as inspiration and gives back to the community both as a singer and a motivational speaker. I wouldn’t mind gettin’ up on a Sunday morning and pokin’ my head into any church in Canada or Nashville that gave the pulpit and stage to Crystal Shawanda for her CHURCH HOUSE BLUES!!
Crystal Shawanda – Church House Blues (True North Records 2020)
Ben Vee is an internet DJ and writer from New Orleans that now lives in Connecticut with his wife Annette. He started spinning records back in the 1970’s and has been writing about the roadhouse blues since 2011. He does two roadhouse blues shows each week on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com and he writes about the blues when the urge strikes on http://www.benveeblues.com.
Join us at 3 pm EST today on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com for the Good Time Roadhouse blues! Got some new tunes….some classics..and you can get in BMFR chat and make requests too! CYA Soon!
Hope you have time to tune in for today’s Roadhouse Blues Nooner on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com from 12-2 pm EST. Got a bunch of new contemporary blues tunes just for YOU!
Here is the intended playlist:
ARTIST
TITLE
Isolation Blues Collective
Cabin Fever Blues
GA-20
The Whale Has Swallowed Me (Live)
Crimson House Blues
Silver Dollars
Crystal Shawanda
Blue Train / Smokestack Revisited
Jimmy Burns
Everyday I Have The Blues
Harpdog Brown
What It Is
Misty Blues
I Ain’t No Giving Tree
Mad Bojo
Won’t See Me No More
Damon Fowler Group
Pocket Full of Blues
Tomislav Goluban
Bag Full Of Troubles
Elvin Bishop & Little Smokey Smothers
Roll Your Moneymaker
Hazmat Modine
Be There
Southern Avenue
Rumble
Johnny Burgin
Daddy’s Got The Personal Touch (Feat. Rae Gordon & Nancy Wright)
It’s a sunny day with a bit of a breeze….perfect time for some Good Time Roadhouse Blues. Join us for alot of upbeat contemporary blues tunes on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com from 3-5 pm EST today, April 16th. Got tunes by Keb’ Mo’, Terry Hanck, Ash Grunwald, the Teskey Brothers, The Derek Trucks Band, and many more!
Join me today, April 14th, on BMFR from 12-2 pm EST for a mix of contemporary blues and blues rock that I call the Roadhouse Blues on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com. My Roadhouse Blues Nooner will feature tunes by Nanette Workman, Muddy Waters & the Rolling Stones, Mike Zito, the Be Sharp Band, Layla Zoe, Joe Bonamassa, and many more.
The world has gone strange…….the news just feeds on the tragedy. Come join us on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com at 3 pm EST for some Good Time Roadhouse Blues! Escape the alarmists and the doom and gloom for a couple of hours! Grab your beverage of choice and let’s enjoy some badass Roadhouse blues! The world can wait…it’ll still be there when we finish the show!
Well the sun is out and the days are gettin’ warmer! Hope you and yours are stayin’ safe during these strange times! Grab your favorite beverage and join us for a mix of new contemporary roadhouse blues and blues rock in equal measures from 12-2 pm EST today on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com.
Got tunes by Malia, Zack Walther, Katie Kadan, King Solomon HIcks, Eric Gales, Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa, Walter Trout, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and many more!
Mike Zito has a new single out Don’t Let the World Get You Down that I will be featuring early during my Roadhouse Blues show on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com from 3-5 pm EST today The song from the new album Quarantine Blues perfectly fits the times and the mood. Hang in there people…this too shall pass!
Ben Vee Blues 