This is show #53, Big Lick Blues Festival Preview Podcast – for the last part of July, 2008.

Welcome back to the BluzNdaBlood Podcast! Your first stop for the best of the blues!

This is Dave Harrison, coming at ya once again inside the blues packed studio in the Star City of Virginia! Well this show is providing a festival preview for the SunTrust Big Lick Blues Festival to be held in Roanoke VA on September 20, 2008 from 2:00 to 9:00 pm. So you ready to get a sample of some Big Lick Blues?  I hope so! Crank it up my friends, we’re off and running!

Well, we started of the show with Shemekia Copeland belting it out with her tune, All About You! Who else are we gonna hear from? How about Chickenwings and Gravy, Walk With Me Baby; Mike Westcott and Blues On Board, Blues in Rockville and Keep the Blues Alive; Hamilton Loomis, Best Worst Day and Workin’ Real Hard; Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers, How Long; Jimmy Thackery and the Cate Brothers, Arky Shuffle; Ana Popovic, Hungry and You Don’t Move Me; and wrapping up with more Shemekia Copeland, I Always Get My Man and Honey Do That Voo-Doo.

Special thanks to all the record labels, the artists, and the listeners who helped contribute to the show! 

Be sure to swing by the BluzNdaBlood home page! There are new pages that highlight details of the artists that I play! Please come over, click on their albums, and buy some of their tunes! Or e-mail them and let them know you enjoy their music and you hear it on the BluzNdaBlood show!

Special news for everyone! Hey, guess what? BluzNdaBlood T-shirts, cups, posters, bags, and lots of other items are coming your way soon! A major portion of the proceeds will go to a foundation that provides funds for medical needs to ailing blues musicians! Absolutely nothing goes into Dave’s pockets! More info on the BluzNdaBlood web site!

Please keep in touch! I always enjoy hearing from you! You can e-mail me at dave@bluzndablood.com.

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Keep the Blues in the Blood! 

This is show #52, Back to the Business of the Blues – for the first part of July, 2008.

Welcome back to the BluzNdaBlood Podcast! Your first stop for the best of the blues!

This is Dave Harrison, coming at ya once again inside the blues studio in the Star City of Virginia! Well, the party is over! The last two shows have been celebrating our 2 year anniversary! It’s time to Get Back to the Business of the Blues! You strapped in and ready for a real variety of the blues? I hope so! Crank it up my friends, we’re off and running!

Well, we started of the show with Albert Castiglia playing a tune about his old boss Junior Wells with “Godfather Of The Blues” … So, who else will you be hearing other than Albert? How about Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne with Blackberry Wine; Eden Brent, Mississippi Flatland Blues; Mister TBA, Dirty Dog; Michael Burks, Heartless; Doug MacLeod, $50 Wig; Roomful of Blues, Hey Now; Bill Sims and Mark LaVoie, Going Down That Road Feeling Bad; Steve Johnson, Bus Blues; Sandy Carroll, Honey Lovin Gumbo; Marlena and Rosco Gordon, Just A Little Bit; Mississippi John Hurt, Nobody’s Dirty Business; Big Bill Broonzy, Baby, Please Don’t Go; and wrapping up with Watermelon Slim and the Workers brand new tune Call My Job from his new release No Paid Holidays!

Special thanks to all the record labels, the artists, and the listeners who helped contribute to the show!  A special thank you always goes out to Michael Allen and the Crossroads Blues Gallery for the excellent artwork that enhances my web pages!

Be sure to swing by the BluzNdaBlood home page! There are new pages that highlight details of the artists that I play! Please come over, click on their albums, and buy some of their tunes! Or e-mail them and let them know you enjoy their music and you hear it on the BluzNdaBlood show!

Special news for everyone! Hey, guess what? BluzNdaBlood T-shirts, cups, posters, bags, and lots of other items are coming your way soon! A major portion of the proceeds will go to a foundation that provides funds for medical needs to ailing blues musicians! Absolutely nothing goes into Dave’s pockets! More info on the BluzNdaBlood web site!

Please keep in touch! I always enjoy hearing from you! You can e-mail me at dave@bluzndablood.com.

Have iTunes and want to easily subscribe? Click here!

Keep the Blues in the Blood!