I'll play the Blues for you

On occasion, I get to guest host a blues radio program,  Johnny Mack's Friday Night Blues Attack, which airs every Friday from 9:00 pm - 3:00 am on WDVX-FM in Clinton/Knoxville, TN and online live through webcast.   It is a passion and hobby for me and great fun.   On Friday night, April 5, was one of these occasions.   Johnny Mack brings me some newer blues releases and ole Blue Lou supplies the rest of the nights tunes from my personal collection.

A couple of highlights of this past show was my daughter Ashlyn dropping by the WDVX downtown studio to check out the show and a phone call request from Billy Bob in New South Wales, Australia - great to hear that Aussie accent.  He requested to hear some Sonny Terry and (Knoxville's own) Brownie McGhee.

Blue Lou in the WDVX studio (courtesy Ashlyn Kittrell)

I heard from lots of friends and listeners through emails, texts and phone calls.  Since the show, several folks have requested a playlist of the songs that aired during the broadcast.  I'm always glad to oblige.  It's a long list; I was on for six hours!

Play list from Friday Night Blues Attack, April 5, 2013:

(artist)

(song)

(album/CD)

Muddy Waters

I Can't Be Satisfied

The Chess Box

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Match Box Blues

The Story of the Blues

Jimmy Reed

Bright Lights, Big City

Live at Carnegie Hall

Slim Harpo

I'm a King Bee

The Best of Slim Harpo

Taj Mahal

Fishin' Blues

Big Blues: Blues Music For Kids

Muddy Waters

Good Morning School Girl

Folk Singer

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Bring It On Home To Me

Sonny & Brownie

Albert King

I'll Play The Blues For You, Pts. I & II

I'll Play The Blues For You

Guy Davis

Shaky Pudding

Skunkmello

John Lee Hooker

Boom Boom

Essential Blues 2

Louis Jordan

Saturday Night Fish Fry

Barbecue Blues

B. B. King

Three O'Clock Blues

King of the Blues Box Set

Son House

Preachin' Blues

The Original Delta Blues

Albert Collins & His Rhythm Rockers

The Freeze

Texas Blues

Buddy Guy

When My Left Eye Jumps

The Very Best of Buddy Guy

Tab Benoit

Sunrise

Medicine

Magic Slim & The Teardrops

Bad Boy

Bad Boy

Jimmie Vaughan

Dengue Woman Blues

From Dusk Till Dawn Soundtrack

Michael "Iron Man" Burks

Show of Strength

Take A Chance On Me, Baby

Susan Tedeschi

It Hurt So Bad

Live From Austin, TX

B. B. King

To Know You Is To Love You

Greatest Hits

Moreland & Arbuckle

Legend of John Henry

Flood

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Bound For Glory

Revelator

Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King

Out of Body, Out of Mind

Have Blues, Will Travel

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Sonny's Thing

Sonny & Brownie

Joe Bonamassa

Stones In My Passway

An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House

Deanna Bogart

Blues at 11

Pianoland

Pinetop Perkins/Hubert Sumlin

Hoochie Coochie Man

Legends

Larry McCray

Same Old Blues

Born To Play The Blues

Paul Oscher

32-20 Blues

Down In The Delta

Garry Moore with Albert Collins

Too Tired

Still Got The Blues

Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell

Can't Hold Out Much Longer

Big Walter Horton with Carey Bell

Big Bill Morganfield

That Same Thing

Rising Son

Tab Benoit

Standing On The Bank

Best of the Bayou Blues

Tinsley Ellis

Freddy's Midnight Dream

Get It!

Albert Collins

I Ain't Drunk

Deluxe Edition

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

She's Tough

Different Tacos!

Jimmy Thackery

Rocks Off

Exile On Blues St.

Bo Diddley

Hey Bo Diddley

His Best

Duane Allman/The Allman Joys

Spoonful

Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective

The Allman Brothers

Statesboro Blues

At Fillmore East

R. L. Burnside

Rollin' & Tumblin'

Burnside on Burnside

Big Jack Johnson

Breakdown Blues

We Got To Stop This Killin'

Willie King

Jukin' At Bettie's

Jukin' at Bettie's

Walter Trout/Jeff Healey

Workin' Overtime

Full Circle

Tab Benoit

Medicine

Medicine

Bonnie Raitt

Angel From Montgomery

Streetlights

Otis Taylor (with Mato Nanji)

My World Is Gone

My World Is Gone

Albert King

Born Under A Bad Sign

Born Under A Bad Sign

John Lee Hooker

I'm In The Mood

The Healer

Robert Cray

I Shiver

Shame + A Sin

Clarence Gatemouth Brown

Caledonia

Gate Swings

Muddy Waters

Mannish Boy

Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live - Legacy Edition

Albert Collins

Lights Are On (But Nobody's Home)

Live at Montreaux 1992

B. B. King

How Blue Can You Get

Live at the Regal

Otis Rush

I Can't Quit You Baby

Essential Blues 2

Bobby Blue Bland

Turn On Your Love Light

Essential Blues 2

Jimmy Thackery and Tab Benoit

These Arms of Mine

Whiskey Store Live

Big Joe Turner

Shake, Rattle, And Roll

Jump Blues Classics

Sean Costello

Have You No Shame

We Can Get Together

Sean Costello

Rub A Dub

Cuttin' In

Big Jack Johnson

Too Many Rats

Roots Stew

Johnny WInter

Mojo Boogie

Third Degree

R. L. Burnside

Let My Baby Ride

Come On In

North Mississippi AllStars

Shake 'Em On Down

Shake Hands With Shorty

Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials

Check My Baby's Oil

Full Tilt

Ronnie Baker Brooks

Bald-headed Woman

Golddigger

Tab Benoit

I Smell A Rat

Live at New Orleans Jazzfest 2005

Steve Earle

My Old Friend The Blues

Ain't Ever Satisfied

Carlos Del Junco

Amazing Grace

Steady Movin'

Joe Louis Walker

Where Jesus Leads

In The Morning

It's always a blast to guest host the show.  Hope to do it again as soon as Johnny Mack calls or emails.  When I do host again, I'll play the blues for you.