Something Blue - Snakes

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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, it's The Snake Charmers with "Hoochie Mama". Before that they played "I Wanna Do Right". The Snake Charmers are from Houston, Texas and they feature Marie Angell on vocals. Find out more at thesnakecharmers.net.

And kicking us off tonight we heard Elvin Bishop do "Many Rivers To Cross" from his new CD, Red Dog Speaks.

You're listening to Something Blue on KASU, 91.9 FM and streaming on the internet at kasu.org.

I've been an Elvin Bishop fan since he played with Paul Butterfield in the sixties. Here's another one he does called "Oklahoma".

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All right now, that's Elvin Bishop doing "Oklahoma" kicking off a little tribute to some famous Bluesmen I put together for this show.

I did an email interview with Elvin Bishop. I asked him what it was like when he was playing with Butterfield and they headlined for Blues legends and he said "Of course it was a nice honor to be the headline act when you’re playing with legends such as Albert or BB."

You can read the whole interview on deltaboogie.net, a social networking website where you can friend and message many of the musicians we feature on Something Blue. That's the Delta Boogie Network at deltaboogie.net.

Continuing with our tribute here's Robben Ford doing "Riley B. King" and then Elvin Bishop does an interview of his own on "Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket".

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Now that's what I'm talking about, another great song from the new Elvin Bishop CD called "Neighbor Neighbor". Before that we heard a new one from The Snake Charmers, "Just A Little Kiss".

Alexander Shulgin broke new ground on his album Triptych 3 featuring Billy Cobham, John Patitucci, Bob James, Bob Mintzer and others. Here's "Pevitsa".

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All right now, another song by Alexander Shulgin called "Riga Moskva". Besides writing Jazz, Shulgin is a composer of TV and Movie soundtracks. If you read Russian you can find out more at shulgin.com.

You're listening to Something Blue on KASU. Please visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com. Thanks to musicalley.com for providing podsafe music for the show tonight. And thanks to Chip Schutzman with Miles High Productions for helping with the Elvin Bishop interview.

Robben Ford started his professional career at 18 backing Charlie Musselwhite. He's played with Jimmy Witherspoon, Tom Scott and the LA Express, George Harrison, Joni Mitchell, and Miles Davis. He now fronts his own band and he is in demand at festivals all over the world. Find out more at robbenford.com. That's robbenford.com.

We're going to close with a couple more Robben Ford songs, "Peace Of Mind" and "Top Of The Hill". Just listen to this fantastic guitar work. Until next time this is Hairy Larry reminding you once again, Blues is the mainstream.

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