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.