Something Blue - Front Porch Blues

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Welcome to Something Blue. I'm Hairy Larry and I've got the Blues, for you.

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All right now, that's Mississippi Millie and she's got a "Handfull Of Trouble". She also opened the show with another song she wrote called "Doing That Magic Thing".

For more about Mississippi Millie and the other musicians featured on Something Blue check out Delta Boogie on the internet. You can also hear podcasts of the shows and participate in a liveblog discussion underway right now. Delta like the Mississippi Delta and boogie like Boogie Woogie, deltaboogie.com.

Will Riley recorded his "My Baby's Got Me By The Blues" album at Blues Alley in Jonesboro. Will wrote and sang all the songs and played guitar. Bix Smith also played guitar, on drums was John Sifford and Uldis Heyl on bass. Will is a great performer and he really has a way with lyrics.

Now, right here on KASU, here's his Gospel Blues, "Been Down To The Water".

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And that's Will Riley with the title track of his CD, "My Baby's Got Me By The Blues". I like the song so much I've been singing it myself. Before that Will sang "Too Far Back And Too Far Gone".

Mississippi Millie was born in the Delta and she sung in Juke Joints as a child. When she was nine years old her mother moved to Pennsylvania. Three years later she was the little girl singing the Blues, her huge voice knocking out the audiences in Philadelphia. Here's another one from her CD, "Front Porch Blues". She calls it "Mississippi Woman".

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Oh yeah, another great song from Will Riley, "My Baby's On The Phone Line". Will was a regular at Blues Alley and he also performed at Blues Fest. Bix Smith played the other guitar on the CD. Bix was a Jazz musician and an outstanding artist. His paintings hung in the Blues Alley Gallery.

Ronnie Presley is from Caraway, Arkansas. I met him at the King Biscuit festival in Helena, Arkansas and he has performed at Blues Fest many times. I'm pleased to present songs from a live concert recorded at The Craighead Forest Bandshell. Ronnie's playing acoustic guitar and singing the Blues. We're gonna start right now with a Creedence song, "Who'll Stop The Rain".

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And that's Ronnie Presley recorded live at the Craighead Forest Bandshell. He sang "Good Day For The Blues". Before that he did a Stevie Ray Vaughan song, "Life By The Drop". And before that one of his own, "Had The Blues This Sunday Morning". Ronnie is an extremely versatile performer, playing solo or with a band his repertoire covers Rock, Blues, and Country music.

You're listening to Something Blue on KASU.

Suzanne Michell is another gifted and versatile performer. When she got an electric guitar I said now she's electric and eclectic. These next recordings are unlike anything I've ever heard her do. Traditional songs sung in close harmonies bordering on vocalese. Here she is now with a Steven Foster song, "Hard Times Come Again No More".

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And that's Suzanne Michell laying the harmonies on us with a Gospel standard, "Swing Low Sweet Chariot". Closing the show she's doing the "Rising Sun Blues". Until next time this is Hairy Larry reminding you once again, Blues is the mainstream.

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