This week's playlist:

• Flashback by Bobby Rush, from Blues Man's Ball Vol. 1 (2008); available from LocoBop.com. Visit BobbyRush.net and LocoBop.com for more information.

• Trouble In Mind by Rufus Thomas, from Blues Man's Ball Vol. 1 (2008); available from LocoBop.com. Visit this page in Wikipedia for more information.

• I'm the Creeper by Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, from Blues from the Heart (2008); available from ElectroFi.com. Visit WillieBigEyesSmith.com and ElectroFi.com for more information.

• Bad Year Blues by Albert Castiglia, from These Are The Days (2008); available from Blues Leaf Records and the iTMS. Visit Blues Leaf Records and AlbertCastiglia.com for more information.

• Key In The Lock, Last Night Baby And The Night Before and Junior's Place, all by Papa Don McMinn, and all from Home Blues (2008); available from LocoBop.com. Visit DonMcMinn.com for more information.

• Trouble In Our Home by Eddie Floyd, from Blues Man's Ball Vol. 1 (2008); available from LocoBop.com and . Visit EddieFloyd.com for more information.

• Hold That Train by Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, from Full Tilt (2008); available from Alligator Records and the iTMS. Visit for more information.

• On My Way Home by The Chicago Thieves, from In The Windy City (2007); available from CD Baby and the iTMS. Visit ChicagoThieves.co.uk for more information.

Mentioned during this show: TheLocalTourist.com; to donate to the American Red Cross for hurricane relief, go here.

Excellent resources for more information about the blues: The Blues Foundation and the Delta Blues Museum; be sure to download and listen to the DBM's top-notch (and free) podcast, the Uncensored History of the Blues; BluesRevue.com, the online home of Blues Revue magazine; BigCityBluesMag.com, the online home of Big City Blues magazine; BluesCritic.com.

Be sure to read Today's Chicago Blues by Karen Hanson, an excellent guide to all things blues in present-day Chicago.

For up-to-the-minute news about things to do in Chicago: TheLocalTourist.com.

(Music on Murphy's Saloon # courtesy of the artists and the Podsafe Music Network, the PROMONET program of the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, Download.com or Garageband.com)