Buried Alive in the Blues
Big Dave
Santa's Helper hit's the airwaves this morning with some help for your Christmas shopping list! Got friends and family on your shopping list that need to be converted to the One True Way of the Blues? I gotcha covered! No matter what they're into, I can provide you the hook that'll get you listening to the blues! Be sure to read the track descriptions for WHO each of these is for. HO HO HO! Dig!
Genre
Blues & Folk & Funk & Jazz & Rock & Swing
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Saturday 12/13/2014 @ 6:00AM - 9:00AM
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cray, Robert Band | Won't Be Coming Home | Nothin But Love | Mascot Music | For the 'smooth' music fan on your list - and some of the BITE! is back! (Best Cray in years.) |
| Cray, Robert Band | Fix This | Nothin But Love | Mascot Music | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Willie Nelson Wynton Marsalis | Caldonia | Two Men with the Blues | Blue Note | For a fan of outlaw country OR trad jazz. Or music. How much fun is this record? |
| Willie Nelson Wynton Marsalis | That's All | Two Men with the Blues | Blue Note | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Rick Holmstrom | Last to Know | Hydraulic Groove | Tone-Cool | For the electronic music fan. A blues album that has been chopped, remixed, edited and sampled, and still grooves like hell? Dig. |
| Rick Holmstrom | Pee Wee's Nightmare | Hydraulic Groove | Tone-Cool | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Harry Manx | Baby Please Don't Go | Road Ragas | s/r | Indian classical meets blues? Oy hea |
| Harry Manx | The Gist of Madhuvanti / The Thrill is Gone | Road Ragas | s/r | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen | More Hipper | Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen | Basin Street | For the funk / New Orleans fan. Greasy swagger and swing. Fantastic. |
| Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen | Been and Gone | Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen | Basin Street | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Jimmy Witherspoon & Robben Ford | Kansas City | Live | Avenue Jazz | Got a guitar fan that doesn't impress easy? Done. |
| Jimmy Witherspoon & Robben Ford | Goin' Down Slow | Live | Avenue Jazz | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Lindell, Eric | Find Another Girl | West County Drifter | M.C. Records | Roots music! Tight songs, funky clavinet, horns, a clarinet? Love it. |
| Lindell, Eric | That's Why I'm Crying | West County Drifter | M.C. Records | |
| Lindell, Eric | Sentimental Lover | West County Drifter | M.C. Records | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters | Alabama / Ice Cream Man | Blues & Ballads | Bullseye | For the trad jazz fan - great tenor sax by David "Fathead" Newman. |
| Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters | Still Soul Searching | Blues & Ballads | Bullseye | |
| Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater | I Wouldn't Lay My Guitar Down | The Chief | Rooster | Chuck Berry fans? You'd think this track WAS Chuck. And a great tune to boot! |
| Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater | Blues for Breakfast | The Chief | Rooster | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| The Dirty Blues Band | My Babe | Stone Dirt | BGO | How about one for the blues fan that already has it all? A way rare album cut in 1968 with Rod "Gingerman" Piazza on harp and vocals. Import only. |
| The Dirty Blues Band | Sittin' Down Wonderin' | Stone Dirt | BGO | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| John Nemeth | Do You Really Want that Woman | Soul Live | s/r | Got a stone soul fan on your list? Give 'em this one, and once they're hooked... |
| John Nemeth | Every Night 'bout This Time | Blues Live | s/r | ... give 'em this one. Instant blues fan. Dig! |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Roomful of Blues | White Christmas | White Christmas / The Christmas song | Rounder | |