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Classic blues from Lloyd Price, Muddy Waters and Lonnie Johnson

The best in blues including new sounds from Erin Costello, Jon Cleary and John McNamara. Plus some memorable collaborations including The Rolling Stones with Muddy Waters.

The best in blues including new sounds from Erin Costello, Jon Cleary, Jim Gustin, Sean Chambers and John McNamara. Plus some memorable collaborations including the 1981 meeting of The Rolling Stones and Muddy Waters at the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago. Plus the impromptu jam that brought together the unlikely pairing of saxophonist Roland Kirk and blues harmonica legend Sonny Boy Williamson at Copenhagen's Club Montmartre in 1963.

57 minutes

Music Played

  • Lloyd Price

    Stagger Lee

    • The Complete Singles - A's & B's 1952-1962.
    • Acrobat.
  • Jon Cleary

    Po' Boy Blues

    • Live At ChickieWahWah.
    • FHQ.
  • Little Willie Farmer

    Come Home Find My Baby Cry

    • I'm Coming Back Home.
    • WOLF.
  • Jim Gustin & Truth Jones

    Live With Yourself

    • Memphis.
    • Jim Gustin.
  • Sean Chambers

    Handyman

    • Trouble & Whiskey.
    • American Showplace Music.
  • Lonnie Johnson

    Got The Blues For The West End

    • Blues In My Fingers.
    • INDIGO.
  • Laurence Jones

    The Price I Pay

    • Take Me High.
    • RUF.
  • Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang

    Hot Fingers

    • Hot Fingers - History Of American Guitar Vol 1.
    • GREAT VOICES OF THE CENTURY.
  • Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones

    Clouds In My Heart

    • Checkerboard Lounge - Live Chicago 1981.
    • Eagle Rock.
  • Erin Costelo

    Fighter

    • Down Below, The Status Quo.
    • Seayou Records.
  • John McNamara

    Bad Reputation

    • Rollin; With It.
    • Bahool.
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Sonny Boy Williamson

    The Monkey Thing

    • Kirk In Copenhagen.
    • Mercury.

Broadcast

  • Mon 7 Aug 2017 19:00