Something Blue Originally Aired 02/20/99 - Junkyardmen, John Weston, Billy Lee Riley play - Junkyardmen, What Time Does The Bus Leave Welcome to Something Blue. This is Hairy Larry and I've got the Blues, for you ... play - Junkyardmen, Tell It Like It Is play - Junkyardmen, Same Old Blues play - Junkyardmen, What Is Your Life All right, the Junkyardmen coming at you on Something Blue. That was Mose Vinson, resident musician at The Center For Southern Folklore, joining the Junkyardmen on piano and vocals while Billy Gibson sang "What Is Your Life". We also heard Mose sing one, "Tell It Like it Is". Hammond wizard, Al Gamble, put those great organ fills behind Jesse Hoggard presenting the Don Nix song, "Same Old Blues". And through it all John Scalici on Drums and Kevin Sheahan, bass, keep the rhythm solid. Jesse Hoggard is from the Jonesboro area. He played at Blues Fest with Red House, helped us out on a fundraiser for the Bandshell, and has been featured on Something Blue many times before. Billy Gibson played at the ASU Blues Symposium with Bobby Litte. We also got to see the junkyardmen last year at Helena. All of these cuts were from their new CD "scrapheap full of blues". Next we're going to feature some songs from John Weston's CD "Got to Deal with the Blues". We saw John Weston and Mark Simpson as a duo at Blues Fest 97 in Jonesboro and at the ASU Blues Symposium. On this album and at live performances they have added a band. All of the songs on the CD were written by John Weston who sings, and plays harmonica and guitar, all at the same time. The first song here is about a subject at the heart of Delta Blues, the "Mighty Mississippi". play - John Weston, Mighty Mississippi play - John Weston, Phoney Woman play - John Weston, Got To Deal With the Blues play - John Weston, Good to be Free And that's John Weston singing one he wrote called "Good to be Free". We heard Carla Robinson sing with him on "Phoney Woman" and we also heard the title track "Got to Deal with the Blues". John Weston is from Smale, Arkansas. He is a great songwriter who really presents his material on stage. If you ever get a chance to see his show don't miss it. We got to see him last year at Helena and he really had the crowd going. Also performing at Helena, last year, was Billy Lee Riley. Riley was raised in the Jonesboro area and he's currently living in Newport. He was a Sun recording artist in the early fifties and has been in the music business ever since. A top studio harmonica player, who played many sessions with Glen Campbell and Leon Russell, Riley loves to perform live. When you see him on the stage it's pretty obvious he is having a good time. Here he is now with one he wrote, "Winter Time Blues". play - Billy Lee Riley, Winter Time Blues play - Billy Lee Riley, It Never Rains Til It Rains On You play - Billy Lee Riley, Nothin But The Devil All right, Billy Lee Riley with a slow rocker called "Nothin But The Devil". Before that we heard "It Never Rains Til It Rains On You". These cuts are from his CD, "Hot Damn!". Riley was featured at the ASU Blues Symposium where he gave a lecture and a performance and he has been featured on Something Blue many times in the past. To learn more about Billy Lee Riley, John Weston, and other fine Delta Musicians log on to the Delta Musicians area of Delta Boogie, www.deltaboogie.com/deltamusicians. Check out our Band Pages at deltaboogie.com/bands.htm and of course you can find out more about Something Blue at deltaboogie.com/somethingblue Now here's Billy Lee Riley with another song he wrote, called "Blues for My Baby". play - Billy Lee Riley, Blues For My Baby play - John Weston, Side Dish Closing the show we have "Side Dish" by John Weston featuring lead guitarist Troy Broussard. Something Blue is a production of KASU at Arkansas State University. I'm Larry Heyl, your producer and host. Until next week, then, this is Hairy Larry reminding you once again, Blues is the Mainstream.