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Something Blue - for air 2-5-94 Tony Spinner, Famous Unknowns
play - Famous Unknowns, Marks Harpo 3:38
Upclose and Personal
Welcome to Something Blue. This is Hairy Larry and I've got
the Blues ... for you.
play - Willie Brown, Future Blues 3:??
Mississippi Delta Blues - Rhino
play - Robert Johnson, Cross Road Blues 3:??
Mississippi Delta Blues - Rhino
play - Robert Petway, Catfish Blues 3:??
Mississippi Delta Blues - Rhino
All right, we got some Delta Blues for you tonight and kicking us
off we heard a contemporary Delta Blues band, "The Famous
Unknowns", doing Mark Salling's tune, "Marks Harpo". Then a
blast from the past with Willie Brown singing "Future Blues";
the famous Robert Johnson song "Cross Road Blues"; and Robert
Petway doing "Catfish Blues". These selections are from a Rhino
anthology compiled by Robert Palmer called "Mississippi Delta
Blues".
Now let's hear the same song sung by a contemporary Delta
Bluesman from Clarksdale, Mississippi, Big Jack Johnson.
play - Big Jack Johnson, Catfish Blues 7:06
The Oil Man, Earwig B-CD-199
play - Lonnie Shields, Hard Times 3:53
Portrait, Rooster Blues
play - Big Jack Johnson, Oil Man 3:52
The Oil Man, Earwig B-CD-199
And that's Big Jack Johnson doing the Oil Man. Before that we
heard Lonnie Shields from West Helena, Arkansas do "Hard Times"
from his "Portrait" CD.
Another Delta Bluesman, Tony Spinner, has a CD out on Blues
Bureau called "Saturn Blues". Tony is from Jonesboro and has
been touring with Pat Travers. Playing with him on "Saturn
Blues" are Aynsley Dunbar, drums and John Onder, bass. Tony
wrote all the songs so now let's listen to his tune, "Angeline".
play - Tony Spinner, Angeline 5:25
Saturn Blues, Blues Bureau
play - Famous Unknowns, Tore Down 3:51
Upclose and Personal
play - Tony Spinner, She's my Everything 4:31
Saturn Blues, Blues Bureau
Yeah, Tony Spinner rockin the blues with "She's my Everything".
We're all excited about Tony's album especially since it's so
good. In between Tony we heard The Famous Unknowns, a Memphis
area blues band with musicians from Arkansas and Tenessee. They
played "Tore Down" from their CD "Up Close and Personal".
You can see the Famous Unknowns next Saturday night at a Sonny
Boy Blues Society fund raiser in Helena. Just five dollars gets
you into the old J.C. Penney building for a night of quality
blues. Like this next song by the Famous Unknowns, "Dirty
Money".
play - Famous Unknowns, Dirty Money 3:02
Upclose and Personal
play - Tony Spinner, Drivin' all Night 4:30
Saturn Blues, Blues Bureau
Tony Spinner, "Drivin' All Night" from his new CD, "Saturn
Blues". If you like Tony vote with your bucks, pick up his CD
and play it.
Next Saturday, February 12, be at the J.C. Penny building,
downtown Helena Arkansas, to see the Famous Unknowns. Just a
five dollar cover charge for great music all night. For more
information call Bubba Sullivan at the Blues Corner. Here's my
favorite Famous Unknowns song, the title cut on their CD,
"Upclose and Personal".
Upclose and Personal 4:21
Upclose and Personal
play - Famous Unknowns, TWB Blues 6:03
Upclose and Personal
voice over
Closing the show we have The Famous Unknowns doing "TWB Blues".
Until next week then, this is Hairy Larry reminding you once
again, Blues is the Mainstream.
credits
Something Blue is a production of KASU at Arkansas State
University. I'm Larry Heyl your producer and host. This show
was engineered by John Sifford and myself. If you have enjoyed
the show call me at Jonesboro Computer Services, 501-935-6659, or
write to Something Blue, Post Office Box 2160, State University,
Arkansas 72467. Thanks for listening.
