Pacific Street Blues & Americana

This week, kick start your summer listening with 25 new tracks from artists you already know and love! We're good in the gym but we're really good with the windows rolled down as you're cruising about town. Enjoy and good music to you! Give us the Love too! Post a picture of where or what you do when listening to PSB&A. Are you drinking a coffee? Working in the garden? Broadcast or Podcast, li...

This week, kick start your summer listening with 25 NEW tracks from artists you already know and love! We're good at the gym, in the car, at work, or on the lawnmower. Take Pacific St Blues & Americana with you wherever you go! Give us the love too! Post a photo of what you're doing when you listen to Pacific St Blues & Americana. Whether on broadcast or podcast, post a photo on the PSB&am...

New singles from Doobie Brothers, "Easy," and Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter (Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan), "My Old School." Guess which band is going back on the road this summer? Thanks to our international listeners from the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, France, Australia, Indonesia, Germany, Spain, and Brazil.  1. Christone Kingfish Ingram / 662 2. Albert Cummings / Do What Mama Says 3. Hector Anchondo...

5. Leadbelly / Leavin' Blues 6. Taj Mahal / Bourgeois Blues  7. Pink Anderson / Boll Weevil 8. Nina Simone / House of the Rising Sun  9. Creedence Clearwater Revival / Midnight Special  10. Kentucky Boys / Cotton Fields 11. Long John Baldry / Easy Rider 12. Dr. John / Goodnight Irene 13. Johnny Cash / I Got Stripes 14. Chris Thomas Kind / Rock Island Line 15. Led Zeppelin / Gallows Pole  16. Aeros...

We shine a spotlight on the music of Bill Withers this episode. Be sure to pop 'round our Facebook page and say hello! www.facebook.com/PSBlues 21. Ain't No Sunshine / Buddy Guy w/ Tracy Chapman  22. Keb Mo / Lean on Me  23. Mick Jagger / Use Me  24. Hootie & the Blowfish / Lovely Day  25. Tommy Castro / Draw the Line 26. Deanna Bogart / Cause We've Ended as Lovers 27. Hector Anchondo / Legend...

Pacific St Blues & Americana Mother's Day May 8, 2022 Spotlights on the music of Ann Peebles in this episode. Visit our Facebook page & say hello! https://www.facebook.com/psblues   1. BB King / Mean Old World 2. Diunna Greenleaf / If It Wasn't for the Blues 3. Al Basile / If All It Took Was Wishing 4. Louis Jordan / Jack You're Dead  5. Dave Spectre / Buzz Me Baby 6. Paul Rodgers / I Can'...

20. Aerosmith / I'm Ready 21. John Mellencamp / Down in the Bottom 22. Otis Rush /Double Trouble (Cobra, SRV)  23. John Mayall / Long Distance Call (Clapton, Taylor, McVie, Fleetwood, Green)  24. Rolling Stones (feat: Buddy Guy) / Champagne & Reefer 25. Humble Pie / Rollin' Stone (Steve Marriott & Peter Frampton) 26. Rory Gallagher / Got My Mojo Working 27. Gary Moore / Walking Through the...

Pacific St Blues & Americana - May 1, 2022 This week we explore the influence of Chicago bluesman Muddy Waters.  This is part one of three episodes including a special online-only supplement.  1. Peter Frampton / King Bee 2. Tommy Castro / I Wants to Be Loved 3. Joe Louis Walker & James Cotton / You Need Love  4. Mem Shannon / Gypsy Woman  5. Keb Mo / Muddy Water 6. Muddy Waters / I Want t...

Bonus Show Is Muddy Waters the most influential blues artist on Classic Rock bands?  I would argue he is. With Robert Johnson or  Chuck Berry a close second and third.  Anyway, here's a special, online-only, show for our podcast friends. Thank-you for your support and your ears.  33. Eric Clapton / Hoochie Coochie Man  34. Jimmy Rodgers / Blow Wind Blow (feat: Jeff Healey)  35. Etta James / You Sh...

21. Dana Fuchs / Hard Road 22. Black Crowes / Jealous Again 23. Sarah Benck & the Bankrobbers / Tidal Waves 24. Lucinda Williams / Southern Accents 25. Ann Pebbles / I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down 26. Playing for Change (feat Taj Mahal)  / Gimme Shelter 27. Tedeschi Trucks Band / Bell Bottom Blues 28. Carolyn Wonderland / Broken Hearted Blues 29. Joan Osbourne / Late for the Sky 30. Jackso...

So much new music and only 3 hours to share it. When I was in my teens, radio was a beacon to the world of music. Deejays would assemble shows that reflected their taste while introducing us to new releases by known artists and new artists we needed to know. It was an art form. Let's run down some rabbit holes of the lost & nearly forgotten, or new tracks by known artists, while being cradled...

18. Indigenous / Blues from the Sky 19. Joanne Shaw Taylor / Don't Go Away Mad (feat Joe Bonamassa) 20. Samantha Fish / All Ice, No Whiskey 21. Led Zeppelin / Dazed and Confused 22. Beth Hart / The Rain Song 23. Robert Plant / & Allison Krauss / Last Kind Words 24. Johnny Winter / Sweet Sixteen (feat Joe Bonamassa) 25. Jefferson Airplane / Uncle Sam Blues 26. Tommy Castro / Child Don't Go 27....

So much new music - let's hear the new platters. 1. Layla / Tedeschi Trucks Band 2. Marcus King Band / Wildflowers & Wine 3. Aynsley Lister / Wherever I Am 4. Mississippi Heat / Madeline 5. Allman Brothers / Rockin Horse 6. Billy Gibbons / My Lucky Card 7. Big Brother & the Holding Company / Down on Me 8. Sue Foley / Think It Over 9. SRV / Willie The Wimp 10. Melvin Taylor / Dirty Pool 11....

21. George Thorogood / Madison Blues 22. Tom Petty / Done Somebody Wrong 23. Stevie Ray Vaughan / The Sky is Crying  24. Warren Haynes (gov't mule), Billy Gibbons (zz top), Mickey Raphael / Mean Mistreatin' Mama 25. Kris Lager Band / Matchbox Blues 26. Jonny Lang / Lie to Me  27. Hector Anchondo / I'm Going to Missouri 28. Free / Come Together in the Morning  29. Larry Williams (Speciality Records...

Born in 1919, Mississippi's Elmore Brooks took his father's last name and became arguably the most influential slide blues guitar player of the post-war era. As a sideman for Sonny Boy Williamson II (a/k/a/ Rice Miller), James' would write several songs made popular by Williamson including Look Over Yonder Wall and One Way Out. After serving in the military, stationed in Guam, like many from the a...

25. Etta James / Tell It Like It Is 26. Neville Brothers / One More Day  27. Etta James / Imagine 28. Los Lonely Boys / What Ever Gets You Through the Night  29. Etta James / Smokestack Lightin'  30. Jeff Healey / Evil  31. Van Morrison & Carl Perkins / Sittin' on TOp of the World  32. Doors / Back Door Man  29. Etta James / The Sky is Crying 30. Bonnie Raitt / Pride and Joy  31. Melvin Taylor...

Pacific St Blues & Americana April 3, 2022 We all know Chess Records for Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy, and Little Walter (Jacobs). Despite her extensive list of jukebox hits James' is often overshadowed in history. Chess labelmate Etta James arguably births Rhythm and Blues.   1. Little Milton w/ Susan Tedeschi / Mother Earth  2. Tedeschi Trucks Band / Little Wing  3. Bu...

This episode contains two phone interviews with Ian McLagan. Mac, as he was known, was a member of the Small Faces. When Steve Marriott left the band to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, The Small Faces hired on Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones) and Rod Stewart; thus becoming The Faces. When The Faces broke up in '75, Mac toured as a sideman to The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Rod Stewar...

Duke Robillard (feat Sue Foley) / No Good Lover Diunna Greenleaf / If It Wasn't for the Blues Cassandra Wilson / Vietnam Blues (Junior Wells) Lightin' Hopkins / Please Settle in Vietnam Robert Plant & Allison Kraus / Last Kind Words Blues Scott Roth / Freaker Central Keb Mo & Lyle Lovett / Till It Shines (Bob Segar) Heidi Gluck / Walk On (Neil Young) And a whole lot more...

This is a fun one. This podcast is an amalgamation of two shows. In it, I Mix 'n Match covers and originals by prominent musical acts that had a profound effect on the sounds of their era. It's kinda cool - I think you'll enjoy it: I hope you do! Rick   1. Allman Brothers / Melissa  2. Eric Gales / In Memory of Elizabeth Reed   3. Gov't Mule / Hole in My Soul  4. Little Milton w/ Gov't Mule / When...

20. Little Milton / Tupelo Honey 21. Son Seals / Queen of the Slipstream 22. Henry Butler / I Like It Like That 23. Gary Moore / Still Got the Blues for You  24. Rory Gallagher / Calling Card (live) 25. Thin Lizzy / Whiskey Jar 26. Mark Knopfler & The Chieftains / The Lily of the West  27. Joanna Shaw Taylor / If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody 28. Beth Hart / Good Times, Bad Times  29. Dean...

Pacific St Blues & Americana Playlist: March 6, 2022 It's been a bit of a wild week. The show's no more disjointed than usual. We focus on a few artists with short sets of songs by Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, and Irish blues-rock. With St. Pat's day just around the corner, Van Morrison, Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore, and, of course, Rory Gallagher only made sense. As always, thanks for...

Pacific St Blues & Americana Sunday, February 20, 2022 1. Eric Johnson / Off My Mind 2. Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart / I'd Rather Go Blind (Original by Etta James) 3. Etta James / Take it To the Limit (Original by the Eagles) 4. Gregg Allman / These Days (Co-written with Jackson Browne) 5. Keb Mo / I Can't Be Satisfied  (Original by Muddy Waters) 6. Muddy Waters / You Need Love (Original by M...

22. Tedeschi Trucks Band / Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad 23. Derek and the Dominoes / Presence of the Lord 24. Sue Foley / Think It Over  25. Joe Bonamassa / Hanging on a Loser  26. Ronnie Wood (feat George Harrison) / Far East Man  27. Joanne Shaw Taylor / If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody (originally James Ray)  28. Bonnie Raitt / Luck of the Draw  29. Amanda Platt & the Honeycutters / G...

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