A rather raucous start to STAR BLUES last night with a dose of guitar blasters carrying on the tone from Neil's excellent Rock show: Danny Bryant breaks his Scandinavian tour celebrating 10 years in the business with an upcoming pair of gigs in East Anglia, and his mentor Walter Trout clocked up two decades with an album of rarities from the past and present - both got early spins on the playlist. The pace eased somewhat with a slow blues from Z. Z. Top to open the way for later tracks of classic Chess blues from Jimmy Rogers and the Excello genius of Jerry McCain.
Bobby Day's original of "Rockin' Robin" (propelled by Earl Palmer's peerless sticksmanship) was our way of marking Michael Jackson's death a few days ago and Elvis contributed his beautiful "So High" from the 1966 Grammy winning gospel album "How Great Thou Art". (Though in his career he was nominated for Country, Rock'n'Roll, Blues and Pop - he only ever won in the Gospel category). Susan Tedeschi will be at Cherry Hinton at the end of July for the Cambridge Folk festival, by way of a teaser I played a song from her brand new album - so new it's still smokin'.
I did succumb to a senior moment yesterday about one of my chosen piano blues artists, Lloyd Glenn. Rather than get a name for himself playing with Elmore James, it was - as anyone knows - Lowell Fulson. The man who did splendid work at the keys for Elmore was Johnny Jones. (By way of atonement, look for a track by him on the next show).
David Dee is on the cover of the new "juke Blues" magazine, reason enough to play his signature piece "Goin' Fishing" - inside the mag, Star Blues gets a mention too. (Other blues mags are available). I'll be compiling another submission to the radio charts tonight, then my playlist will be posted at garyblue.co.uk. I hope you can spare some more time on Sunday night at ten on FM or online at star107.co.uk for more of the same (but guaranteed to be different to any other blues show on the planet). Until then take care of yourselves and take care of those that take care of you.
Gary Blue
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