Eric Clapton, when interviewed, is unhappy with the guitar break on the seminal 1968 live version of "Crossroads" - I used the song as the first in a pair of tracks on the "Buy-One-Get-One-Free" promotion on the show. I put it with one of the best songs ever written about cars, "Terraplane", that Eric covered on his "Sessions for Robert J" project. My other artist in the feature was John Lee Hooker: teamed with Robert Cray for an updated go at "Mr. Lucky" in 1991 and shorn of celebrity guests for the Vee-Jay version of "Crawlin' Kingsnake" from the Fifties.
The much promised "Walkin' By Myself" from Jimmy Rogers graced the first hour of the show featuring the best harp solo in recorded blues history from Walter Horton. Feel free to disagree but you won't get me to readily change my mind.
There was some trivia for when things go quiet in the snug: Little Milton's "Grits Ain't Groceries" revealed that Mona Lisa was a man, something confirmed to me several years ago by a noted Art Historian.
As one of the younger listeners celebrates her first birthday this coming Thursday, I played Lady Bianca's "Baby's Boogie" for proud parents Kim and Mark and to mention Lady B's upcoming new album and appearance on the new "Astral Weeks - Live" project with Van Morrison. We played "Gloria" by Van and John Lee Hooker earlier in the show and you'd think the playlist was carefully planned wouldn't you? (It is but don't tell anyone). Speaking of new things lead neatly to the new single by U2 on the Monday Star Breakfast show and the U2/B. B. King gospel collaboration from "Rattle and Hum", "When Love Comes To Town".
The weekly celebration of piano blues included Roosevelt Sykes' "The HoneyDripper" and the Pilgrim Travellers provided "Straight Street" by way of the gospel spot: has there ever been a more beautiful use of the human voice?
By eight on Monday evening, the full playlist for the show will be on http://www.garyblue.co.uk/ and I'll be back God willing with more top tunes and tomfoolery in a blues style next Sunday at ten pm (don't forget you can listen on-line through http://www.star107.co.uk/ or on FM) - until then take care of yourselves and take care of those that take care of you
Gary Blue
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