Join us today from 12-2 pm ET for the Ben Vee Roadhouse Blues Nooner on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com. We will be featuring new music from Anthony Geraci, Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne, The Hogtown Allstars, Mindi Abair, Ronnie Earl, Van Morrison, Kilborn Alley, Brad Absher, Bennett Matteo, and more!
Here is the intended playlist:
ARTIST
TITLE
Anthony Geraci
Into The Night
Anthony Geraci
I Ain’t Going To Ask
Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne
The Way She Loves A Man
The Hogtown Allstars
The Sad One
Ben Levin
My Back Scratcher
Mindi Abair
What About Love?
Miss Bix
The Poison
Ronnie Earl
Blow Wind Blow
Al Basile
The Time Is Now
Van Morrison
Pretending
Tad Robinson
Real Street
Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’
Ain’t Nobody Talkin’
Jontavious Willis
Low Down Ways
Mary Lane
Blues Give Me A Feeling
John Nemeth
Fountain Of A Man
Texas Horns, The
Soulshine
Kilborn Alley
Do Your Dance
Brad Absher & The Superials
Be The Luv
Scott Ellison
Revolutionary Man
HOROJO Trio
Real Deal
Bennett Matteo Band
Believe In Me
Big Jack Johnson with Wild Child Butler
Run Blues Run
Ian Siegal
Working on a Building (feat. Jimmie Wood & JJ Holiday)
2022 is turning into a great year for new contemporary Roadhouse blues. Join me today on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com from 12-2 pm ET as I spin new tunes from Edgar Winter, Horojo Trio, Duke Robillard, Scott Ellison, Lolo, Mindi Abair, Nick Andrea, Ash Grunwald, and plenty more!
I have some badass roadhouse bluzin’ tunes for today’s show from 12-2 pm ET on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com. Mindi Abair, a fabulous singer/songwriter and Grammy nominated sax player, has a new album out…Forever. I will be spinning some cuts from it as well as new music from MIck Pini, A Tribe of Horseman, Scott Ellison, Eric Gales, and The Wildroots as well as some of my favorite artist songs from 2021 including Damon Fowler, Hendrikse, and Ben Levin.
Here is the intended playlist:
ARTIST
TITLE
Mindi Abair
Nothing Ever Hurt Like You
Eddie 9V
You Don’t Have To Go
Mindi Abair
What About Love?
8 Ball Aitken
What Goes Up
Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers
Fine Line
A Tribe of Horsman
Who’s That Knockin
Kiko And The Blues Refugees
Ain’t Gone Yet
The Wildroots
I.O.U. (feat. Victor Wainwright & Patricia Ann Dees)
Have some great tunes lined up for you for today’s Good Time Roadhouse blues show on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com. Will be playing a beautiful duet by Gregg Allman and Mindi Abair that they recorded in 2014 as well as songs by Danielle Nicole, The Nighthawks, Rynhrd Boegel, Jim Allchin with Keb’ Mo’, Pinkie Rideau, and many more. Grab your favorite beverage and/or smoke and join us at from 3 to 5 pm EST.
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!
When I saw a video of Mindi Abair playing a tune with Joe Bonamassa a couple of years ago, I was captivated. Her voice is energetic, her sax playing is excellent, and she is pretty dang easy on the eyes. This blues rock bundle of energy hails from California where, besides playin’ the badass roadhouse blues, she also runs a winery with her husband!
Mindi is an accomplished performer and musician with the pedigree to prove it. A graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, she has been nominated for Grammy Awards for her incendiary sax style, toured with Aerosmith, and earned a reputation as a fiery on stage singer. She joined forces with The Boneshakers in 2014 and they have collaborated on three well received and popular albums in the years since; the latest of which is entitled NO GOOD DEED and one of my favorites of 2019.
NO GOOD DEED was produced by Kevin Shirley (Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Black Country Communion) and his touch brings out the very best in Mindi on No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, Seven Day Fool, and Movin’ On. Mindi is a natural blues rocker who likes it LOUD with a pulsing rhythm and that is certainly something that Kevin knows a thing or two about. Mindi teams with band drummer and vocalist Third Richardson for an incredible rendition of a tune done back in the day by Ike & Tina Turner, Baby Get It On. Mindi then cranks it on a rousing version of You Better Run, a hit for Pat Benatar in the 1980’s and originally done by the Young Rascals in the 1960’s. All of the cuts also feature an awesome guitar player by the name of Randy Jacobs.
My first awareness of Mindi came with the release of THE EASTWEST SESSIONS in 2017 and the tune Pretty Good for a Girl featuring Joe Bonamassa on guitar. The tune is also the name of her production company….an in your face reminder of what Mindi and other female musicians often deal with while payin’ their dues. One of my pet peeves is writers/reviewers and industry groups that distinguish between male and female instrument players. An instrument has no sex and identifying Mindi as a “fabulous female sax player” will likely get you a stare down from her that intimates potential violence. For a taste of her prowess on the saxophone, I invite you to listen to Not That Kind of Girl. The tune reflects her boisterous style with an upbeat sound and infectious beat.
Additionally, Mindi & the Boneshakers put out a Christmas album in December of 2018 entitled ALL I GOT FOR CHRISTMAS IS THE BLUES. The title cut, Merry Christmas Baby, and I Can’t Wait for Christmas are cool modern tunes and her sax infused version of the classic The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) is something you just have to hear! The overall recording has become an instant blues Christmas favorite of mine.
Based on her most recent album which is a perfect synergy of rock, blues, and R&B, as well as her body of work during the last decade, Mindi Abair rightly deserves her selection as our 2019 Roadhouse Blues Woman of the Year!
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.
It’s almost High Noon EST and time for my roadhouse house blues nooner on BMFR. Tune in at http://www.bluesmusicfan.com for some great new contemporary blues as well as classics by Southside Johnny, Mike Zito, Neal Schon, and many more.
Come join us at http://www.bluesmusicfan.com from 3-5 pm EST today as I do the Roadhouse Blues Christmas Style! Hope you get a chance to tune in…but if not…..have a damn fine Christmas in any case!