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It's the first Saturday of the month, and that means it's time for another edition of the Code Blue Retrospective Series. 2003 was declared the Year of the Blues. There was a PBS film series called 'Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues'. A 5 CD box set with soundtrack highlights was released back then. Today, we play Disc 3 in its entirety - the 1950s. Classic stuff!
featuring new music from Terry Whalen, Dion & Robert Finley
featuring new music from gov't mule, eric clapton, eddie 9v, joe louis walker and others
Stony Plain is based in Edmonton, Alberta. The label specializes in what its founder Holger Petersen calls roots music: Contemporary music with roots in the past that stands on its own, but which influences almost all other music forms. Established in 1976, the label has released over 400 albums of blues and roots music that is impossible to put into neat pigeonholes. The common element in all of these forms of music is that the musicians, regardless of current fad or fashion, put their hearts and souls into the music they make. Stony Plain released the results – and almost invariably found that people responded.
Featuring new music from Sure Foley, Memphissippi Sounds, David Gogo & More
Featuring new music from Joanne Shaw Taylor, Carolyn Wonderland, Pastor TL Barrett etc.
Alligator Records is celebrating a half-century of recording history-making blues. The 58 song 3-CD set lays out label founder and president Bruce Iglauer’s vision. The collection highlights the label’s extraordinary past, headline-generating present, and a future dedicated to nurturing new generations of blues artists and fans. Fifty years ago, Bruce Iglauer spent his meager savings to record an LP by his favourite Chicago blues band, Hound Dog Taylor & the HouseRockers, and founded Alligator Records to release it. Today, Alligator boasts a catalog of over 350 titles, many of which are renowned, award-winning, time-tested classics of the genre. Alligator Records’ artists and recordings have received 48 Grammy Award nominations and three Grammy Awards, over 150 Blues Music Awards and over 70 Living Blues Awards.
featuring new music from Reed Turchi, Adia Victoria, Larkin Poe & others
We'll bring you some hot-off-the-presses goodies from the likes of Sue Foley, Colin Linden, Colin James, Robert Plant & Alison Krause, Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram, Tas Cru and Tommy Castro. We'll also mine the audio archives for a deep dive into the music of Calgary's Back Alley John.
featuring new music by Sue Foley, Samantha Fish, Big Daddy Wilson & others note: couldn't find Musqueam announcement
Alligator Records is celebrating a half-century of recording history-making blues with release of '50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music'. The 58 song 3-CD set lays out label founder and president Bruce Iglauer’s vision. The collection highlights the label’s extraordinary past, headline-generating present, and a future dedicated to nurturing new generations of blues artists and fans. We continue our deep dive into the history of this venerable label with the second of three rockin' parts.
featuring new music by Samantha Martin, Colin Linden, Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram and more
Ottawa's Sue Foley has a new album coming our way, called 'Pinky's Blues'. The title is a reference to her signature pink paisley Fender Telecaster. An advance single has been released, called 'Dallas Man'. Sue describes it as "inspired by all those great guitar players from Dallas and right around there", So, in honour of that we will be bringing you a mess o' great Texas guitarists on today's show. As well, some other new releases and a few concert previews. This show marks our return to the CiTR studio and live progranmming as well!
Alligator Records is celebrating a half-century of recording history-making blues with release of '50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music'. The 58 song 3-CD set (over 230 minutes) lays out label founder and president Bruce Iglauer’s vision. The collection highlights the label’s extraordinary past, headline-generating present, and a future dedicated to nurturing new generations of blues artists and fans. Fifty years ago, 23-year-old blues fan Bruce Iglauer spent his meager savings to record an LP by his favourite Chicago blues band, Hound Dog Taylor & the HouseRockers, and founded Alligator Records to release it. Today, Alligator boasts a catalog of over 350 titles, many of which are renowned, award-winning, time-tested classics of the genre. Alligator Records’ artists and recordings have received 48 Grammy Award nominations and three Grammy Awards, over 150 Blues Music Awards and over 70 Living Blues Awards.
Alligator Records is celebrating a half-century of recording history-making blues with release of '50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music'. The 58 song 3-CD set (over 230 minutes) lays out label founder and president Bruce Iglauer’s vision. The collection highlights the label’s extraordinary past, headline-generating present, and a future dedicated to nurturing new generations of blues artists and fans. Fifty years ago, 23-year-old blues fan Bruce Iglauer spent his meager savings to record an LP by his favourite Chicago blues band, Hound Dog Taylor & the HouseRockers, and founded Alligator Records to release it. Today, Alligator boasts a catalog of over 350 titles, many of which are renowned, award-winning, time-tested classics of the genre. Alligator Records’ artists and recordings have received 48 Grammy Award nominations and three Grammy Awards, over 150 Blues Music Awards and over 70 Living Blues Awards.
The concept here is to play an entire show of sets of two tunes by an artist from the same recording. With a couple of exceptions, we succeeded in what we set out to do. There's an emphasis on new releases, and lots of Canuckians to be heard for your listening and dancing pleasure. We take a deep dive into the recent work Quebec-based artist Mike Goudreau, and we wind up the show with ace harmonica player Paul Oscher, who passed away recently.
Our first-Saturday-of-the-month retrospective series continues with a deep dive into the catalogue of a record company founded in Chicago in 1951. United Records issued discs by blues artists such as Junior Wells, Memphis Slim, Roosevelt Sykes and Robert Nighthawk. It was also noteable for the great of amount of music it released performed in the doowop style. Most of United's output was eventually acquired by Bob Koester of Delmark Records, who made most of it available through comprehensive reissues. As well, we will take a look at the artistry of the recently departed Canadian guitarist Ellen McIlwaine.
A bit of mixed bag on today's show, hopefully presented in an appealing way. We mark Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, and give a tip of the hat to west coast bluesman James Harman, who passed away after giving us so many decades of great music. We'll hear from Juno winner Crystal Shawanda, who picked up the trophy for Blues Album of the Year. We've got new releases from Steve Marriner, Rob Lutes and Curtis Salgado. And last but not least, we will preview some actual upcoming live shows, with live audiences!
Our retrospective series rides again! Delmark Records was started by Bob Koester in 1953 while he was still a university student in 1953. He sold the label in 2018, and it is still putting out jazz and blues releases. It is the longest running independent record label in the USA. Delmark brought us great artists like Magic Sam, Otis Rush, J.B. Hutto and Junior Wells. Bab passed away on May 12th, 2021 at the age of 88. On July 3rd, we will devote an entire show to the interesting United Records, a Delmark aquisition.
This is an encore broadcast, which orginally aired way back in 2007. It took place just a few weeks after the legendary Maritime bluesman Dutch Mason passed away.
We feature some of the many artists nominated for the 42nd Annual Blues Music Awards, taking place in down in Memphis Tennessee on June 6th. (The ceremony will be broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook.) Also, we sample a number of new releases from both sides of the border, including Maria Muldaur, Kat Dawson, Guy Davis and Mike Gaudreau.
This is the first show of the month, so our retrospective series continues! delve more into the treasure trove of offerings from Rounder and its blues subsidiary Bullseye. This time around, some personal faves ... Robert Nighthawk, Eddie 'The Chief' Clearwater, Ruth Brown, George Thorogood, Johnny Adams, Marcia Ball, Solomon Burke, George Thorogood and many more. Return with us to the thrilling days of yesteryear!
Canada's annual blues awards show is coming up soon in Toronto, and we're going to fill you in with all the platters that matter. Or at least some of them. [C'mon people ... we only have so much time!] As well, a look at what's coming up concert-wise, new releases from Delmark Records and others, and a tip o' the hat to the late great Sleepy LaBeef. NOTE: This is a repeat broadcast from January 2020.
New releases from Maria Muldaur, Kat Danser, Curtis Salgado, Smilin' Jack Smith, Brian Blain and Chris Cain. Also, a listen to the Juno nominees in the Blues Album of the Year category for 2020, and a cornucopia of other goodies. Lots of fun stuff.
We inaugurate our Retrospective Series with this show. For the next while, the first show of each month will spotlight some noteworthy artist or label from the past. We start off with the venerable Rounder Records label and it's imprint Bullseye Blues, which is celebrating it's 50th Anniversary this year. All the great tracks from today's show come from a now-out-of-print 4 CD set released in 2003 called 'Box of the Blues'.
In honour of Women's History Month in the USA, we are presenting a playlist curated by MC Records featuring many of the great women blues artists who have recorded for the label over the decades. In addition, we mark the passing of masterful boogie-woogie piano player Gene Taylor (Downchild, The Blasters, The Fabulous Thunderbirds) with a tribute to his music.
it's Maple Blues Month in Canada! Starting on February 1st, there's been awards show on YouTube from Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. The whole thing winds up this week in Vancouver with hosts Dalannah Gail Bowen and Jim Byrnes. Tune into the MBA YouTube Channel on February 22nd at 5pm PST. In honour of the awards, we'll be hearing many of the winners and some nominees too. We'll get to some new releases, too, and a feature on a female blues singer from Turkey.
Hosts Jim Burnett and Paul Norton battle it out to impress each other (and you, dear listener) with their favourite classic Mardi Gras / New Orleans numbers. Since you can't head down to the Big Easy to experience the real deal this year, this is your next best bet. The whole idea is to entice you to make a donation to CiTR during the 2021 FunDrive! If you are suitably impressed, head on over to www.citr.ca/donate http://www.citr.ca/donate and plunk down a bit of your Revenue Canada subsidy funds to help the station keep on keepin' on. And don't forget to pick Code Blue as your "donation inspiration"!
New releases from Dalanna Gail Bowen, Myles Goodwyn, Rory Block, Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne and Dawn Tyler Watson. Plus: Bob Dylan sings about Jimmy Reed ... and Jimmy Reed does Jimmy Reed. A tribute to the late great pianist Henry Gray. A look back at Levon Helm as a new biograhy about him is released. John Hiatt - just because he's John Hiatt. And the proverbial many more. (This is a REPEAT broadcast.)
