Blues History: This Week In The Blues

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Jan. 26 – Feb 1, 2025. Some of the highlights include my favorite Clarksdale, MS resident, harmonica virtuoso Charlie Musselwhite, blues guitarist Samantha Fish, and the "King of the Slide Guitar" Elmore James. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about t...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Jan. 19 – Jan. 25, 2025. Some of the highlights include Chicago blues piano player Henry Gray, blues vocalist, harmonica player, and drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith , and Grammy nominated musician and vocalist Beth Hart. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know mo...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Jan 05 – Jan 11, 2025. Some of the highlights include hill country slide maestro Mississippi Fred McDowell, Delta blues singer and pianist Louise Johnson, and Chicago blues slide guitarist Earl Hooker. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or oth...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Jan 05 – Jan 11, 2025. Some of the highlights include Fabulous Thunderbirds founding member and harp maestro Kim Wilson, Chicago blues slide guitar master Tampa Red, and the recording of “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man” by Muddy Waters. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to kno...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Dec 29 - Jan 04, 2025. Some of the highlights include Rock N Roll pioneer “Bo Diddley”, Chicago blues guitarist Matt "Guitar" Murphy, and the recording of Smoke Stack Lightning by Howlin’ Wolf. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or o...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Dec 22 - Dec 28, 2024. Some of the highlights include Chicago blues singer and songwriter Lil Green, blues bass guitarist Bob Stroger, and Mississippi delta bluesman Josh ‘Razorblade’ Stewart. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or other things...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Dec 15 - Dec 21, 2024. Some of the highlights include New Orleans piano legend Professor Longhair, the “Devil's Son In Law" Peetie Wheatstraw, and the one and only Lonnie Brooks. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or other things tha...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Dec 8 - Dec 14, 2024. Some of the highlights include harmonica blues legend Junior Wells, the original hound dog, Big Mama Thornton, and STAX records. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or other things that happened this week in the blues, be...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Dec 1 - Dec 7, 2024. Some of the highlights include blues harp player Sonny Boy Williamson II, the day Muddy Waters recorded his version of "Got My Mojo Working", and blues and boogie-woogie pianist Blind John Davis. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more a...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Nov 24 - Nov 30, 2024. Some of the highlights include Chicago blues guitarist Jimmy Johnson, The Godfather of British Blues, John Mayall, and Briefcase Full of Blues, the debut album by The Blues Brothers. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Nov 17 - Nov 23, 2024. Some of the highlights include Louisiana native and Cajun blues guitar maestro Tab Benoit, blues legend R.L. Burnside, and the Voodoo man himself, New Orleans own Dr. John. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or other thi...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Nov 10 - Nov 16, 2024. Some of the highlights include delta blues legend Bukka White, blues harp player Carey Bell, and Chicago blues guitar legend Hubert Sumlin. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or other things that happened this week in th...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Nov 3 - Nov 9, 2024. Some of the highlights include the blues standard "The Sky Is Crying" written by Elmore James, blues guitarist and singer "Rory" Block, and blues legend Bonnie Raitt. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Oct 27 - Nov 3, 2024. Some of the highlights include Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green, "Queen of the Boogie" Hadda Brooks, and the recording of the blues classic "Baby, Please Don't Go". We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these art...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Oct 20 - Oct 26, 2024. Some of the highlights include R&B guitar legend Steve Cropper, Acoustic blues harmonica player Sonny Terry, and bone of the inventors of Rock and Roll, Wrecking Crew drummer Earl Palmer. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these a...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Oct 13 - Oct 19, 2024. Some of the highlights include blues guitar player Kenny Neal, Delta blues guitarist "Big Joe" Williams, and blues musician and Mississippi hill country blues guitarist and singer Jessie Mae Hemphill. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Oct 6 - Oct 12, 2024. Some of the highlights include the1969 BB King recording of "The Thrill is Gone", Delta blues singer and guitarist "Mississippi" Joe Callicott, and blues musician and instrument maker Lonnie Pitchford. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you wa...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Sept 29 - Oct 5, 2024. Some of the highlights include Texas Blues Maestro Joe "Guitar" Hughes, Blues immortal Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Chicago blues harmonica great Billy Branch. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or other things that...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Sept 22 - Sept 28, 2024. Some of the highlights include Mississippi Juke Joint Legend Roosevelt “Booba” Barns, Chicago blues guitarist Mighty Joe Young, and blues legend Blind Lemon Jefferson. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or other things...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Sept 15 - Sept 21, 2024. Some of the highlights include "The King of the Blues", B.B. King, Chicago blues harp maestro, Snooky Pryor, and blues guitarist Jesse Ed Davis who played with the likes of Eric Clapton, John Lennon, and George Harrison. We just covered some of the highlights her...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Sept 8 - Sept 14, 2024. Some of the highlights include harmonica player Harmonica Fats, the blues guitarist who influenced both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Guitar Shorty, and blues master Charles Brown. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or ot...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Sept 1 - Sept 7, 2024. Some of the highlights include Piedmont blues guitarist & mandolin player Floyd Council, blues guitarist Freddie King, and Chicago-based blues pianist Sunnyland Slim. We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or other thing...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Aug 25 - Aug 31, 2024. Some of the highlights include blues shouter Jimmy Rushing, one of the most popular black female recording artists of the 1950s Dinah Washington, and Chicago-based blues singer and guitarist Joanna Connor.  We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know mor...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Aug 18 - Aug 24, 2024. Some of the highlights include the King of the Boogie John Lee Hooker, blues legend Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, and Canadian blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer and songwriter Big Dave McLean.  We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more abo...

HEY BLUES FANS - Here's the latest episode of "This Week In The Blues" for the week of Aug 11 - Aug 17, 2024. Some of the highlights include blues pioneer singer and guitarist "Crying" Sam Collins, blues guitar great Roy Gaines, and blues guitar giant Son Seals.  We just covered some of the highlights here. If you want to know more about these artists or other things that...