Join me for the Ben Vee Roadhouse Bluzin’ Nooner on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com from 12-2 pm today, Tuesday March 29th. I have new tunes from Nick Andrea, Miss Bix, Jose Ramirez, Grant Haua, Julian Sas, The Blue Chevys, Duke Robillard, and more. #blues #roadhouseblues
Join us from 3-5 pm ET on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com as we rock the blues with new tunes by Popa Chubby, Julian Sas, Jose Ramirez, Stacy Jones, Edgar Winter, Pacey King & Doley, and some personal favorites from Walter Trout, Susan Tedeschi, Uncle Watson’s Widow and Guthrie Trapp.
Here is the intended playlist:
ARTIST
TITLE
Popa Chubby
Master IP – Bonus Track
Siggi Schwarz
Crossroads Blues (Feat. Andreas Kummert)
Wily Bo Walker/Danny Flam
Walking with the Devil (Blood on My Hands)
The Cinelli Brothers
Wolf Whistle
Jose Ramirez
Here In The Delta
Vince Esquire
Blues Is My Business
Walter Trout
Maybe a Fool
Wes Jeans
I’m a Good Man
Uncle Watson’s Widow
Heavy Load
Stacy Jones
Jefferson Way
Popa Chubby
I’m The Dog
Johnny Winter
Ain’t That Just Like A Woman
Edgar Winter
Johnny B. Goode (feat. Joe Walsh, David Grissom)
Billy F Gibbons
West Coast Junkie
Bad Daddy
These Times
Julian Sas
I Will Carry You (Electric Version)
Mark May
Walking Out That Door
Todd Sharpville
Used
Gov’t Mule
Make It Rain
Susan Tedeschi
Little By Little (with The Derek Trucks Band) [2016 Remastered]
Join us today on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com from 12-2 pm ET, as I spin new tunes by Delbert McClinton, Bob Corritore, Vaneese Thomas, the Cinelli Brothers, Albert Castiglia, Popa Chubby, and more!
Hi all! Gonna be spinning alot of contemporary Roadhouse blues today featuring blues rock artists from around the world: Gregg Wright, Albert Castiglia, Mike Zito, Gov’t Mule, Gary Moore, Eliza Neals, Louise Hoffsten, and more. PLUS I have a title track, In Too Deep from Sugaray Rayford! Tune in from 3-5 pm ET on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com. See ya soon!!
After repeated requests by some of you, I finally posted my first Youtube video. It is a 5 minute overview of the new MIke Zito live album. You can view it here . It was a blast doing it and I will posting more as the weeks go by.
Please let me know what ya think in comments here or on the video itself!
Back in the days before satellite radios and the compact disc, I used to make long night trips from New Orleans to Houston to be ready for a morning business meeting. I loved to spin the radio dial listening for the crisp sound of one of those 50,000 watt clear channel AM radio stations out of Little Rock, Memphis, and even distant Chicago layin’ down the blues. And after listening to the new Duke Robillard Band recording, it is though I found the sweet radio spot once again on one of those road trips where for 18 bluzin’ songs I am catapulted back to the days when jump style rhythm and blues reigned supreme. Great vocals, infectious beats, tasty piano, blazin’ guitars, and brash horns were the signature of those tunes then……and they are now on They Called It Rhythm & Blues.
To produce great rhythm & blues requires an incredible mixture of talents and they are all available on this fantastic recording. Duke Robillard is in fine form on the guitar and vocals for 4 of the tunes. He is joined by regular band mates Mark Teixeira (drums), Bruce Bears (piano, organ), Marty Ballou (bass), Doug James (saxophone), and Chris Cote (vocals). And guest appearances by John P. Hammond (2 songs), Kim Wilson (2 songs), Sue Foley, Michelle Willson (2 songs), Mike Flanigan, Mark Early, Sugar Ray Norcia (2 songs), Doug Woolverton, Matt McCabe, and Anita Suhanin are the perfect compliments to the Duke Robillard sound.
Given my proclivity for upbeat tunes it should come as no surprise that my favorite tune on the new recording is Tell Me Why with Kim Wilson on vocals. Kim hasn’t lost a thing since his days with the Fabulous Thunderbirds and if this tune doesn’t make ya move a bit as you listen, you need to check your pulse and make sure you are still livin’ !!! An exceptional song on the album is No Good Lover with the Duke and Sue Foley on vocals and includes a stellar performance on the drums by Mark Teixeira. Mark is a percussion machine for all 3 minutes and 38 seconds of the tune…..simply badass!! I also loved Here I’m Is and Fools Are Getting Scarcer with Chris Cote on vocals, Rambler Blues sung by Sugar Ray Norcia, and both the songs performed with John Hammond on vocals and guitar, Homeless Blues and No Place To Go. And Michelle Willson has the perfect voice for Champagne Mind and Trouble in Mind.
Listening to this album while I wrote this review was a joy. I invite you to buy this superb recording when it goes on sale on March 18th and be transported back for 67 minutes to the days when they called it the rhythm & blues…….it was a great sound then….and still is now!!
The Duke Robillard Band – They Called It Rhythm & Blues (2022 – Stony Plain Records)
#blues #roadhouseblues #bluesrock
Ben Vee started out spinning songs on terrestrial radio and at nightclubs back in the 1970’s in his home state of Louisiana. After a career in the construction business, he returned to DJing in 2011. He now hosts two shows each week on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com and writes about the blues at http://www.benveeblues.com from his home in Connecticut. He also has a personal 24 hour stream devoted to the Roadhouse Blues… WRHB
Albert Castiglia is the consummate contemporary bluesman and with the release of his new album, I Got Love on March 25th, he confirms his place among the great artists of the blues. His style is a vibrant mesh of the guitar energy of Elmore James and Stevie Ray Vaughan, the low down blues vocals and six string mastery of Luther Allison, and a touch of the funkiness of James Brown. His music is meant to be played loud in a way that Howlin’ Wolf and Hound Dog Taylor would appreciate. And the lyrics to the songs on the recording are intense personal vignettes of the highs and lows of his everyday life during what has certainly been the Great Depression for music performers.
The new album is produced by another of my roadhouse blues favorites, Mike Zito, and will be released on Gulf Coast Records. Albert is backed by an impressive group of musicians including Justine Tompkins (bass and vocals), Ephraim Lowell (drums and vocals), and Lewis Stephens (Hammond B3 organ and piano). There are 10 originals on the recording and one cover of the Melvin Taylor tune, Depression Blues.
My favorite song on the album is Take My Name Out of Your Mouth. It will give you a great overall glimpse of his vocal talent, his songwriting ability, and, oh my lord, his guitar playing. Other badass blues rockin’ tunes on the album include What’s Wrong With You?, Double Down, and Burning Bridges. The title cut, I Got Love, is loud and brash and has hit single written all over it. For a glimpse of the harshness of life down on the streets during the pandemic, give a listen to Freedomland and You Don’t Know Hell.
We are starting to kick our way out of the harsh cocoon of Covid regulation and just in time it has been announced that Albert will be touring with Mike Zito for the upcoming “Blood Brothers” tour. Twenty dates have been scheduled starting on March 24th in Omaha Nebraska. (Tour Promo). I can’t envision a better representation of the current state of the roadhouse blues than these two artists on the same stage together. Get your tickets soon…..I just don’t believe they will last that long. I am going to try to make the last announced show on April 16 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Leave me a comment if you plan to attend a show…..and once you do, post a comment with your thoughts.
#blues #roadhouseblues #bluesrock
Ben Vee started out spinning songs on terrestrial radio and at nightclubs back in the 1970’s in his home state of Louisiana. After a career in the construction business, he returned to DJing in 2011. He now hosts two shows each week on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com and writes about the blues at http://www.benveeblues.com from his home in Connecticut. He also has a personal 24 hour stream devoted to the Roadhouse Blues… WRHB
Join us today from 3-5 pm ET on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com as we rock the blues with new tunes from Beth Hart, Bonham-Bullick, Ash Grunwald, Brett Littlefair and Devil’s Band, Andy Lindquist, Uncle Watson’s Widow, and a selection of some fine live recordings.
Here is the intended playlist:
ARTIST
TITLE
Tomislav Goluban
Express Connection
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Change It
Jimmy Barnes
Too Much Ain’t Enough Love
Bonham-Bullick
I’ll Get Along
Ash Grunwald
Shout Into the Noise
Beth Hart
The Rain Song
Led Zeppelin
Travelling Riverside Blues
Rory Gallagher
I Ain’t No Saint
Robin Trower
Rock Me Baby
George Thorogood
Willie and the Hand Jive
Brett Littlefair and Devil’s Bend
2 O’clock Blues
Popa Chubby
69 Dollars
Santana
Shake It
Marcus Malone
House of Blues
Alvin Lee
Talk Don’t Bother Me
The Allman Brothers Band
Feel So Bad
Peter Frampton With Eric Clapton
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
J.J. Cale
After Midnight (with Eric Clapton) [2016 Remastered]
It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans and at various other locations around the world today. Join me as I play some tunes you might hear as you partied in my hometown. Tab Benoit, Marcia Ball, Rosie Ledet, Ryan Foret, and many more are on the playlist. The show is from 12-2 pm ET on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com! #blues #roadhouseblues #mardigrasmusic
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