Something Blue for air 09/05/98 - Blues Fest 97 Da Fellas, Kyle Timms, Terry Ray Bradley, Blues Fest Regulars, Uncle Fred, Suzanne Michell, Hard Times, Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians, Joe Lee Combo play - Da Fellas, Everybody get up and dance Welcome to Something Blue, This is Hairy Larry and I've got the Blues, ... for you. play - Kyle Timms, instrumental play - Terry Ray Bradley, Don't Be Cruel All right, that's Terry Ray Bradley working on the crowd at Blues Fest 97 with an Elvis song, "Don't Be Cruel". Before that we heard Kyle Timms play a guitar instrumental and kicking us off we heard Da Fellas urging everyone to get up and dance. We recorded these songs for Something Blue at Blues Fest 97 in fact the entire show tonight features Blues Fest 97 performances. All Live, all new, and all for you on Something Blue. play - Blues Fest Regulars, Stormy Monday play - Uncle Fred, Hoover Hogs song play - Suzanne Michell, Summertime All right, Suzanne Michell, from Little Rock, Arkansas with the George Gershwin classic, "Summertime". Before that we heard Uncle Fred telling us about them Hoover Hogs. Suzanne and Fred perform together and their acoustic sets are always a nice change at Blues Fest. Here's Suzanne Michell, again, singing "Blue Bayou" and "Come Back Baby". play - Suzanne Michell, Blue Bayou play - Suzanne Michell, Come Back Baby And that's Suzanne Michell recorded live at Blues Fest 97. Suzanne has developed a Jonesboro following from her frequent Blues Fest performances and she has been featured on Something Blue many times. Now here's a couple of Jazz standards recorded live at Blues Fest 97. The band is called Hard Times and they're gonna give you "My Funny Valentine" and "Lullaby of Birdland". play - Hard Times, My Funny Valentine play - Hard Times, Lullaby of Birdland play - Da Fellas, Tell Her How You Feel Once again, Da Fellas, with an original written by Carl Washington called "Tell Her How You Feel". A beautiful rendition of a beautiful song. This Blues Fest 97 show is being produced in the midst of preparations for Blues Fest 98 but whatever year and whatever Blues Fest you can find out about it on the internet. Just access www.deltaboogie.com/bluesfest for the latest information. Schedules, pictures, sound files, even some video clips are available. Many Blues Fest musicians are also featured on our Delta Musicians pages. And, of course, you can find out more about Something Blue at www.deltaboogie.com/somethingblue. Now here's my band, Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians, with a couple of songs I wrote, "Spam" and "Houdini". play - Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians, Spam play - Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians, Houdini Closing the show here's The Joe Lee Combo with one Joe calls "Boppin' at the Forest". Playing on the song are Joe Lee, sax; Craig Baker, trumpet; Joey Sanford, piano; Ronnie Coletta, guitar; Tom Mason, bass; and John Long, drums. Joe Lee has been involved with Blues Fest since our first festival in 1991. Here he is now, "Boppin' at the Forest". play - Joe Lee Combo, Boppin' at the Forest Something Blue is a production of KASU at Arkansas State University. I'm Larry Heyl your producer and host. This show was engineered by Mike Misak, Vivian Heyl, and myself. 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.