Something Blue originally aired 08/08/98 - Delta Artists Johnny Rivers, Robert Bilbo Walker, Kenny Brown, Willie Cobbs, Billy Lee Riley, Frank Frost play - Kenny Brown, In the Mood Welcome to Something Blue, This is Hairy Larry and I've got the Blues, ... for you. play - Johnny Rivers, Memphis play - Robert Bilbo Walker, Promised Land play - Kenny Brown, Frankie and Albert All right, Kenny Brown with his version of Frankie and Albert from his new CD "Goin Back to Mississippi". Kenny Brown kicked us off tonight with one he wrote with Junior Kimbrough, "In the Mood". Then we heard Johnny Rivers do his classic, "Memphis", written by Chuck Berry. And then Robert Bilbo Walker did another Chuck Berry song, the title track to his CD, "Promised Land". Now here's Johnny Rivers again singing about "The Poor Side of Town". play - Johnny Rivers, The Poor Side of Town play - Willie Cobbs, Amnesia play - Willie Cobbs, Butler Boy Blues And that's two Willie Cobbs songs, "Amnesia" and "Butler Boy Blues". Willie Cobbs is a legendary blues harp player and a fine songwriter from Smale, Arkansas, goin on fifty years in the business. Both of these tunes are from his new CD "Pay or Do 11 Months and 29 Days". Now another Arkansas bluesman that goes back to the fifties, here's Billy Lee Riley singing "Georgia". play - Billy Lee Riley, Georgia play - Frank Frost, My Back Scratcher That's my main man, The Mighty King, Frank Frost, playing harp and singing "My Back Scratcher", from the Paula anthology, "Super Soul Blues, Volume 1". Frank Frost, Sam Carr, and David Porter backed up Robert Bilbo Walker on his "Promised Land" CD. Here they are now doing a Sam Cooke number, "Baby, Baby, Baby". play - Robert Bilbo Walker, Baby Baby Baby play - Willie Cobbs, Testing 123 play - Billy Lee Riley, Blues For My Baby That's Billy Lee Riley, originally from the Jonesboro area, now living in Newport, Arkansas, with one he wrote called "Blues for My Baby". For more information about Billy Lee Riley check out his autobiography on the internet at www.deltaboogie.com. He tells it like it was in the fifties at Memphis during the birth of rock n roll. All of the artists featured on the show tonight are also featured in the Delta Musicians pages on Delta Boogie. And for more information about "Something Blue" access www.deltaboogie.com/somethingblue. Here's Robert Bilbo Walker, joined by Eugine Stafford on vocals doing another Sam Cooke song, "Goin to the Train Station". play - Robert Bilbo Walker, Goin to the Train Station play - Kenny Brown, Grease Monkey Closing the show here's The Kenny Brown Band doing a song written by band member, Dale Beavers, "Grease Monkey". Something Blue is a production of KASU at Arkansas State University. I'm Larry Heyl your producer and host. If you have enjoyed the show cantact us at www.deltaboogie.com. Until next week this is Hairy Larry, reminding you once again, Blues is the Mainstream. Thanks for listening.