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Bluesology Profiles - 16-09-2023 - Show 35 - Sonny Boy Williamson II Part 1( 0:26:11)
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Show 35 - Sonny Boy Williamson II Part 1 - This is Episode thirty five, the first of two programmes dedicated to the harp player who called himself Sonny Boy Williamson, although his given name was Alec Miller, and he borrowed the name from John Lee Williamson, who recorded prolifically in the early 1940’s as Sonny Boy Williamson.
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 16/09/2023 4:30:00 p.m.
Bluesology Profiles - 25-02-2023 - Show 06 - Eric Clapton - Part 1( 0:25:41)
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Show 06 - Eric Clapton - I’m checking out the long and illustrious career of Eric Clapton. In fact I am spreading his story over this week’s and next week’s episode. After starting out in a bunch of local bands sixty years ago in 1963 Eric became part of a trio of ace guitarists who spent time in the Yardbirds, along with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and the recently departed Jeff Beck.
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 25/02/2023 5:00:00 p.m.
Bluesology Profiles - 18-02-2023 - Show 05 - Bo Diddley( 0:25:57)
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Show 05 - Bo Diddley - aka Elias Bates McDaniel was born in Mississippi in December 1928, but was adopted and then moved with his adoptive mother to the South Side of Chicago in 1934. His music chops started in his local Baptist church where he became proficient on the violin.
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 18/02/2023 5:00:00 p.m.
Bluesology Profiles - 11-02-2023 - Show 04 - Slim Harpo( 0:26:0)
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Show 04 - Slim Harpo - was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and "one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day".He played guitar and was a master of the blues harmonica, known in blues circles as a "harp". His most successful and influential recordings included "I'm a King Bee" (1957), "Rainin' in My Heart" (1961), and "Baby Scratch My Back" (1966), which reached number one on Billboard.
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 11/02/2023 4:30:00 p.m.
Bluesology Profiles - 04-02-2023 - Show 03 - Little Walter( 0:26:26)
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Show 03 - Little Walter - Marion Walter Jacobs, known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix.His virtuosity and musical innovations fundamentally altered many listeners' expectations ofwhat was possible on blues harmonica.
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 4/02/2023 4:30:00 p.m.
Bluesology - 01-10-2022 - Show 239 - Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters Band members( 0:51:18)
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Show 239 - Diving deep into the band that Muddy Waters formed in 1946 not long after he arrived in Chicago. Leonard and Phil Chess started out with a label called Aristocrat. Muddy surrounded himself with the cream of the crop. It wasn’t long before some of these sideman recorded their own songs once their session with Muddy had been completed. So today the music of Jimmy Rogers, Otis Spann, Little Walter, Junior Wells, Bob Margolin, Buddy Guy, James Cotton and bass player Willie Dixon.
Published: 1/10/2022 5:00:00 p.m.
Bluesology - 24-09-2022 - Show 238 - Little Walter, Shemekia Copeland and Some Kiwi Blues( 0:53:56)
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Show 238 - Little Walter, Shemekia Copeland and Some Kiwi Blues - On this week’s programme a mix of new music from Shemekia Copeland and “You shocked Me”, the latest Vizztone album by Bob Corritore and friends. I’ve discovered some great Kiwi blues bands. More from Tauranga’s Kokomo, and introducing Aucklands The Flaming Mudcaps.
Our classic blues double play heads to MississippiJohn Hurt’s early recordings and ace guitarist Scrapper Blackwell.
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 24/09/2022 5:00:00 p.m.
Bluesology - 17-09-2022 - Show 237 - Bobby Blue Bland - Heres the Man and Live Blues recordings( 0:51:58)
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Show 237 - Bobby Blue Bland - A great feature LP this week. “Here’s the man” from one of the truly impressive voices in the blues. Mister Bobby “Blue” Bland.
Plus, something a little different for you. This week I’m diving into live blues recordings. Listen up for BB King, the Allman Brothers Band, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Muddy Waters and Etta James.
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 17/09/2022 4:56:00 p.m.
Bluesology - 10-09-2022 - Show 236 - Albert Collins - Ice Pickin and The British Blues Boom( 0:54:38)
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Show 236 - Albert Collins - Feature LP is 1978 release “Ice Pickin’” by Albert Collins.
And we’re heading to the UK, as the British blues boom in the 1960’s. Included in our line-up are the three groundbreaking albums from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, featuring the guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor. We visit the first LP by Fleetwood Mac, revisit the Yardbirds, Savoy Brown Blues Band, the Animals, and the first recording from Led Zeppelin.
Published: 10/09/2022 5:00:00 p.m.
Bluesology - 13-08-2022 - Show 233 - Buddy Guy - My Time After a While and Blues Harp Special( 0:50:26)
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Show 233 - Buddy Guy - My Time After a While and Blues Harp Special - On Bluesology this week, we check out the Harp Players who have made their mark over the years. Top of the list is of course is Little Walter Jacobs. Plus Junior Wells, John Lee Williamson, his namesake Sonny Boy Williamson the second, James Cotton, Paul Butterfield, Jimmy Reed, Slim Harpo and Charlie Musselwhite.
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 13/08/2022 5:00:00 p.m.
Bluesology - 06-08-2022 - Show 232 - Albert King - King of the Blues Guitar( 0:50:50)
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Show 232 - Albert King - King of the Blues Guitar - Big Albert King, as in around 6’6” began his career for the small Parott label in Gary, Indiana. This week we’re featuring his 1969 compilation LP “King of the Blues” for Stax.
This week I’m also introducing you to a Kiwi blues band and their new CD, They’re from Tauranga and called Kokomo. New music too from Shemekia Copeland, plus some Muddy Waters, Robert Cray and Hound Dog Taylor.
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 6/08/2022 5:00:00 p.m.
Bluesology - 30-07-2022 - Show 231 - Slim Harpo - Baby Scratch My Back and Leading Blues Pianists( 0:51:59)
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Show 231 - Slim Harpo - Baby Scratch My Back and Leading Blues Pianists - introducing you to this week’s feature LP in a mo, Slim Harpo’s “Baby Scratch my back”
Also in the programme we’re hooking up with blues pianists this week. Listen up for Leroy Carr, Otis Spann, Allen Toussaint, Champion Jack Dupree, Memphis Slim, Pinetop Perkins, Ike Turner, Big Maceo and Skip James (yes he was a blues pianist as well as a prominent guitarist).
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 30/07/2022 5:00:00 p.m.
Bluesology - 14-07-2022 - Show 230 - Carolyn Wonderland and 60 Years of White Blues Artists( 0:55:12)
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Show 230 - Carolyn Wonderland and 60 Years of White Blues Artists - Starting off with our feature LP, Carolyn Wonderland’s new Alligator release “Tempting Fate”.Another theme for you this week, dropping in nearly 60 years of white guys and girls delivering their take on the blues genre. The Rolling Stones, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite. Eric Clapton, Bob Corritore, Mike Bloomfield and Janis Joplin.
Broadcast on Otago Access Radio www.oar.org.nz
Published: 14/07/2022 6:18:50 p.m.