Something Blue - Cowboys

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

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All right now, that's Suzanne Michell doing the classic, "St. James Infirmary Blues" recorded at the Craighead Forest Bandshell. Playing with Suzanne we heard Uncle Fred Wilson on harp and Blind Boy White on the slide trombone. Before that we heard Sam Turpin with some always timely commentary he calls "Farm Boy Blues". And kicking us off we heard The Stone Coyotes singing about "Trouble Down In Texas".

You're listening to Something Blue on KASU.

Here's another song from Sam Turpin. It's the title track from his CD, "Memphis Blue".

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Oh yeah, that's The John Henrys singing "Sweet As Grain Lost In The Canyon". I've got a couple more from The Stone Coyotes. Here's "Angelina" and "The Lights Of Home".

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Cowboy Junkies - Little Dark Heart - cj2010-04-24edtyre.t04.mp3

All right now, it's The Cowboy Junkies singing "Little Dark Heart" recorded live at the World Cafe on April 24, 2010. Wikipedia calls them a Canadian Alternative Country band but a lot of what they do sounds like the Blues to me. To find out more about this fine band go to cowboyjunkies.com on the internet. You can find this entire concert and many more at the Live Music Archive on archive.org.

Here they are again, from the same great show, singing a very famous song by another Canadian, Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down".

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Now that's what I'm talking about, The Cowboy Junkies doing Neil Young. What a great show they put on.

You're listening to Something Blue on KASU and here I am at the internet portion of the show. I've got a lot of great links for you so you might want to sharpen your pencil.

The Something Blue website, where you can hear podcasts of the shows anytime is at sbblues.com. KASU streams all their programming at kasu.org. The Live Music Archive where I found this concert is at archive.org. Go to Delta Boogie at deltaboogie.com and scroll down to see what's new at the Live Music Archive. When you're there click on over to the Delta Boogie Network, a social network for musicians and fans, where you can meet many of the musicians featured on Something Blue. And finally here's a link to the Jazz Thursday website where you can sign up for the mail list and be notified about the upcoming Jazz Thursday shows. It's reverbnation.com/jazzthursday.

I'm going to close the show with the last three songs of this fantastic Cowboy Junkies concert. Here's "Lost My Driving Wheel", "Misguided Angel", and the Patsy Cline Blues song, "Walking After Midnight". Until next time this is Hairy Larry reminding you once again, Blues is the mainstream.

Cowboy Junkies - Lost My Driving Wheel - cj2010-04-24edtyre.t16.mp3
Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel - cj2010-04-24edtyre.t17.mp3
Cowboy Junkies - Walking After Midnight - cj2010-04-24edtyre.t18.mp3