Monday 2 March 2009

STAR BLUES on 1st March 2009 at 22:00

Star Blues returned to full duty last night including the promised musical tribute to Snooks Eaglin. He was known as the "Human Jukebox" with a vocal delivery very similar in style and tone to Ray Charles, with five decades worth of legacy I chose the small band side "Travelling Mood" he did for Imperial and the intimate song "I'm A Country Boy" off an OBC album.

The big event was the version of Gnarls Barclay's number one hit, "Crazy" off the "Evolution" album due next week from Aynsley Lister. That wasn't the only new release I was able to play: "The Soul of John Black" is the new one from Black John on Delta Groove, an album very much at the boundary of what many consider acceptable as blues. I'll let you make your own mind up on this one. There were classic blues sides from John Brim and Big Bill Broonzy and a "back-to-back" about the Bo Diddley song "Before You Accuse Me" -the Clapton go from Journey man had neat interplay with Robert Cray and provided evidence to back my assertion that Eric needs to be pushed to turn in anything half-decent. Feel free to disagree here.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe will be featured in a documentary tomorrow (Tuesday) so ample excuse for me to go to one of her earliest performances on "That's All". Seamlessly follow that with the latest M.C. album from Marie Knight and folks will think this stuff is planned. I'm already planning what's up for Sunday and four and a half hours will just about do it. The latest playlist will be on www.garyblue.co.uk anytime soon and all being well we can get together again if you tune in on Sunday on FM or online at www.star107.co.uk at ten and find out for yourself.Until then take care of yourselves and take care of those that take care of you

Gary Blue

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