Plenty of good old-fashioned blues last night from Young Jesse, Gene Phillips and Johnny Shines, Throw in some rarities from Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Taj Mahal, some Piano Blues from B&R cover star Speckled Red and a suave gospel performance from a twenty year-old Sam Cooke - and you've got a flavour of what STAR BLUES is all about.
Roy Milton came along and gave Star Breakfast a plug with his Specialty recording of "Early In The Morning" and Booker T brought his "Soul Limbo" to mark the Ashes escape and plug his upcoming appearance at the Cambridge Folk Festival (the instrumental is synonymous with cricket ever since Brian Johnston likened the West Indies crowd bashing of beer tins to the percussive opening to the tune). Listeners online (and viewers of the webcam) had a good opportunity to register at http://www.star107.co.uk/ for the competition to win a pair of tickets for the festival that starts on 30th at Cherry Hinton Hall.
Etta James has had to cancel some gigs Stateside due to health worries, we wished her well and played one of her Chess soulful sides. I also accidentally settled an argument for one listener who assured his young daughter that Salt-n-Peppa's "What A Man" was not original - the evidence came from Linda Lyndell whose reading of the Dave Crawford song was done in 1968 for the Stax/Volt label. (It was also used in an advert on tv a couple of years ago). Not sure if the track is on any current album, I took mine from the 9-cd set of "Complete Stax/Volt Singles Vol.2" from about 15 years ago.
The white t-shirt will be there next week with more of the same only different, I hope to share your company on the Commercial Radio Station of the Year 2009 with Britain's only commercial FM blues show at 10. Until then take care of yourselves, take care of those that take care of you
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