Three albums due at the end of April got a first play on last night's STAR BLUES: Aussie Mark Easton (who sent me a personalised dollar bill) with nu-style slide blues; veteran Louisiana Red in great vocal form, and an exciting new project from Omar Kent Dykes that already seems set to clean up at next years awards. Also in the second hour, rather than the expected sweet vocal harmony usually offered in the gospel spot, Elder Roma Wilson was along with a down-home harp based song "Waiting For A Change".
During the week producer, songwriter and label owner Ted Jarrett died so I included a handful of tracks to showcase each facet of this giant of Nashville blues. Latterly Fred James has been working with SPV to reissue a lot of things from those stables and I was pleased to be able to give Fred some credit for all his hard work.
We also celebrated Eric Clapton's 64th birthday today (Monday 30th) with a piece he did with John Mayall on the side shortly before joining the Bluesbreakers. You can expect more from both gents in a fortnight on the British Blues special. Time limits mean that show won't bring the story up to date so I had the chance to feature a handful of acts known for their live sets on the British blues circuit: Seasick Steve, Dana Gillespie and Jools Holland.
Actually the Dana Gillespie track nicely lead into a short celebration of the blues shouters Jimmy Rushing and Piney Brown - who says you don't get blues in all shades (especially as we got chance to sample Dion's cover and the 1935 original of "Baby Please Don't Go"). All being well there'll be more of the same (only different) on FM and online at http://www.star107.co.uk/ next Sunday at ten until midnight - until then take care of yourself and take care of those that take care of you
Gary Blue
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